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Trio Matamoros
Trio Matamoros
band
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Pérez Prado
Pérez Prado
Cuban bandleader, pianist, composer and arranger
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Sonora Matancera
Sonora Matancera
Cuban band
3
Peruchín
Peruchín
Cuban pianist
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Cachao
Cachao
Cuban musician
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Arsenio Rodríguez
Arsenio Rodríguez
Cuban musician
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Carlos "Patato" Valdes
Carlos "Patato" Valdes
Conga player
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Tito Puente
Tito Puente
American musician, songwriter and record producer (1923-2000)
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Ñico Saquito
Ñico Saquito
Cuban trova songwriter, guitarist and singer
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Cándido Camero
Cándido Camero
Cuban percussionist
10
Orquesta Casino de la Playa
Orquesta Casino de la Playa
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Rubén González Fontanills
Rubén González Fontanills
Cuban musician
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Orlando Contreras
Orlando Contreras
Cuban singer
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Tito Duarte
Tito Duarte
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Tata Güines
Tata Güines
Cuban musician
15
Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros
Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros
Cuban jazz trumpeter
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Armando Peraza
Armando Peraza
Cuban percussionist
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Xavier Cugat
Xavier Cugat
Spanish musician
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Miguelito Valdés
Miguelito Valdés
Cuban singer (1912-1978)
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Celia Cruz
Celia Cruz
Cuban singer (1925-2003)
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Machito
Machito
Latin jazz musician
21
Ibrahim Ferrer
Ibrahim Ferrer
Cuban musician
22
Tito Nieves
Tito Nieves
Puerto Rican musician
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Pedro Vargas
Pedro Vargas
Mexican recording artist; singer-actor
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Buena Vista Social Club
Buena Vista Social Club
ensemble of Cuban musicians
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Eddie Palmieri
Eddie Palmieri
American recording artist; pianist
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Mongo Santamaría
Mongo Santamaría
Cuban musician
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Néstor Mesta Chaires
Néstor Mesta Chaires
Mexican tenor
Intro
Cuban musician
Record Labels
Awards Received
International Latin Music Hall of Fame
Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame

Bartolomé Maximiliano Moré (24 August 1919 – 19 February 1963), better known as Benny Moré (also spelled Beny Moré), was a Cuban singer, bandleader and songwriter. Due to his fluid tenor voice and his great expressivity, he was known variously as El Bárbaro del Ritmo and El Sonero Mayor. Moré was a master of the soneo – the art of vocal improvisation in son cubano – and many of his tunes developed this way. He often took part in controversias (vocal duels) with other singers like Cheo Marquetti and Joseíto Fernández. Apart from son cubano, Moré was a popular singer of guarachas, cha cha cha, mambo, son montuno, and boleros.

Moré started his career with the Trío Matamoros in the 1940s and after a tour in Mexico he decided to stay in the country. Both Moré and dancer Ninón Sevilla made their cinematic debut in 1946's Carita de cielo, but Moré focused on his music career. In the late 1940s, he sang guaracha-mambos with Pérez Prado, achieving great success. Moré returned to Cuba in 1952 and worked with Bebo Valdés and Ernesto Duarte. In 1953, he formed the Banda Gigante, which became one of the leading Cuban big bands of the 1950s. He suffered from alcoholism and died of liver cirrhosis in 1963 at the age of 43.