Cachao
Israel "Cachao" López (September 14, 1918 – March 22, 2008) was a Cuban double bassist and composer who helped popularize mambo in the United States in the early 1950s. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, won several Grammy Awards, and has been described as "the inventor of the mambo". He is considered a master of descarga (Latin jam sessions). Cachao was born in 1918 in Havana, into a family of musicians, many of them bassists—around forty or more in his extended family. Read more on Last.fm
Cachao has 10 songs that have been featured in movies like Chasing Papi, Dance with Me, The Birdcage and The Lost City. What is your favorite song by Cachao?
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