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''''Chucho Valdés
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Pianist, organist, composer and instrumentalist, Chucho Valdés is considered one of the best pianists in the world and certainly most important figure in jazz today's Cuba. From child started playing piano guided by his father, the pianist, Bebo Valdés, and 14 years started his career in the band Sabor de Cuba, directed by her father. He was a pupil of the Havana Municipal Conservatory, where he worked with Angela Quintana and later became a disciple of Zenaida Romeu and Rosario Franco, whose influences it considers important in his musical education, graduating from the University of the Arts in Havana.

twenty years before he was a famous pianist, deciding then integrated jazz groups. In the early sixties he was part of the orchestra of the Teatro Musical de La Habana, where he played in working with Leo Brouwer, Frederick Smith and Alberto Alonso. Later joined the Orquesta Cubana de Musica Moderna, later founding Irakere group project, along with guitarist Carlos Emilio Morales. With this group, develops a significant effort to rescue the roots of Cuban music, managed with new expressive elements. His revelation as a major global exponent of international jazz movement occurs at the Warsaw Jamboree Jazz Festival in 1970, was ranked by critics among the best jazz pianists of the time, as a renovator of Latin Jazz and Afro Cuban Jazz and exponent of jazzy post Cuban.

Their quality interpretation has been recognized internationally with the awarding of the status of Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Victoria in Canada, and the Havana and the supply of the Felix Varela Medal of Cuba, the keys to the cities of San Francisco, Los Los Angeles, Madison and U.S. Nevilly and Ponce in Puerto Rico. Master of all genres, jazz, classical and popular dance music, has given lectures at the University of Banff in Canada, the Royal Academy of Music in London, Centre for Advanced Studies in Los Angeles and San Francisco in the U.S. state California. Has received four Grammy Awards: in 1978 with Black Mass interpreted Irakere Group in 1996 to Havana, disco co-starred with trumpeter Roy Hargrove and a band-Puerto Rican Cuban-American in 2001 by Live at the Village Vanguard, and in 2002 for the CD previously unreleased songs, produced by the Cuban stamp Egrem which won the Latin Grammy Award category Best Pop Instrumental Album

Among his most famous compositions include Mercy cha, girl, self, Valley Sting (Danzon), Misa Negra (piano), Jane 1600, Causeway Cerro, Las Margaritas and Mambo Influenced, among others. His highly original instrumentations to popular pieces are considered a contribution of great significance for the development of Cuban music.
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