Benny Moré (August 24, 1919 – February 19, 1963) is considered by many fans of Cuban music as the greatest Cuban singer of all time. He was gifted with an innate musicality and fluid tenor voice which he colored and phrased with great expressivity. Moré was a master all the genres of Cuban music, including son montuno, mambo, guaracha, guajira, cha cha cha, Afro-Cuban, canción, guaguancó, and olero. The eldest of eighteen children, Moré was born Bartolomé Moré in Santa Isabel de las Lajas province of Las Villas in central Cuba. As a child Moré learned to play the guitar, making his first instrument at age six. In 1936, at age seventeen, he left Las Lajas for Havana, where he lived from hand-to-mouth, playing in bars and cafés, passing the hat. His first breakthrough was winning a radio competition.
Then came Moré's major breakthrough. Ciro Rodríguez, of the famed Trío Matamoros, heard Moré singing in the bar El Temple and was greatly impressed. Shortly thereafter, Moré replaced Miguel Matamoros as lead singer, and the latter dedicated himself to leading the band. In 1945 Moré went with Conjunto Matamoros to Mexico. Conjunto Matamoros returned to Havana, but Moré remained in Mexico where he
recorded with Perez Prado. At the end of 1950, Moré returned to Cuba. He was a star in Mexico, Panama, Colombia, Brazil and Puerto Rico, but virtually unknown on the island. His first Cuban recording was Bonito y Sabroso. Moré began alternating between performances in the Cadena Oriental and trips to Havana to record at the RCA studios. In Havana, Moré worked for the radio station RHC Cadena Azul, with the
orchestras of Bebo Valdés and Ernesto Duarte. In addition to the radio, he also performed at dances, cabarets and parties. In 1952, Moré made a recording with the Orquesta Aragón and he decided that he would perform with this group in the dance halls. At this point, Moré broke with Duarte when he discovered that Duarte was not taking him to Saturday and Sunday gigs because he was black. Moré was furious. He presented himself to the agent of RCA in Cuba and told him he was not going to record again with the orchestra of Duarte. Moré decided at that point to start his own orchestra - Banda Gigante. The first performance of Moré's Banda Gigante (literally Giant Band, or Gigantic Band) was in the program Cascabeles Candado of the station CMQ. The Banda was a large ensemble, numbering up to forty musicians, only comparable in size with the big band of Xavier Cugat. Although Moré could not read music, he arranged material by singing parts to his musicians. Moré was offered a tour of Europe -- France in particular -- but he rejected it because of fear of flying (he had by that time been in three air accidents). In the aftermath of the Cuban Revolution, many of Cuba's top musical figures left, most for the US and some for Mexico but Beny, the greatest of them all, stayed in Cuba, among as he said, "mi gente" - "my people". When Moré died in 1963 of cirrhosis, an estimated 100,000 fans attended his funeral. He was only 43 years old.
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Dámaso Pérez Prado was born in Matanzas, Cuba, on December 11, 1916. In early childhood, he studied classical piano at the Principal
School of Matanzas and as a young man played organ and piano in local cinemas and clubs. He was 26 when he moved to Havana around
1942. He apparently changed jobs several times in 1942-1943, He also began to to write arrangements for some orchestras. Prado's
conception of the mambo began to develop in 1943. While Prado is generally credited with popularizing the mambo, its beginnings are
often attributed to Arsenio Rodriguez, Orestes Lopez and his brother Israel "Cachao" Lopes.
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MINHA OPINIÃO - Benny Moré está para Cuba assim como Carlos Gardel para a Argentina: é idolatrado até hoje.(Quando você toca no nome de Benny com um exilado cubano da velha guarda em Miami, ele chora...). Este álbum com Perez Prado é um excelente registro de Benny Moré cantando mambos, acompanhado por um especialista na matéria: Perez Prado.
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ÁLBUM: BENNY MORÉ " El Bárbaro del Ritmo": MAMBOS WITH PEREZ PRADO AND HIS ORCHESTRA.
Gravado en México, 1948-1950
TRACKS/FAIXAS:
1. Babarabatiri
2. Anabacoa
3. Pachito Eché
4. Qué Te Pasa José
5. Mamboletas
6. Tocineta
7. Las Mangoleles
8. Dolor Carabalí
9. A Romper El Coco
10. María Cristina
11. Viejo Cañengo
12. El Suave
13. Tú Solo Tú
14. Ave María
15. Locas Por El Mambo
16. El Guajiro
17. Rabo Y Oreja
18. Mambo Ete
19. Deja Que Suba La Marea
20. Qué Te Parece Cholito
21. La Mucura
22. Será La Negra
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