MIAMI -- Cuban bass player Israel Lopez "Cachao", whose place in history as one of the creators of the mambo was forgotten literally for decades before he was rediscovered and launched to a broad audience in the 1990s, has died. He was 89.
Cachao was hospitalized in Coral Gables Hospital in Miami in mid-March. He died Saturday of kidney failure.
Perhaps no other Latin music bass player was as well known on a massive scale as Cachao, who after nearly 30 years in relatively obscure exile, was "rediscovered" by actor and musician Andy Garcia. Garcia would subsequently produce the albums "Master Sessions, Vol I" and "Vol. 2" as well as the documentary "CachaoSComo Su Ritmo No Hay Otro" ("CachaoSLike His Rhythm There Is No Other"), all of which catapulted Cachao to widespread recognition and fame. Praised by jazz musicians, Cuban music lovers and the mainstream in general, the affable Cachao was reborn as a star in his late '70s and made the most of it, turning out a series of impeccable recordings.
Cachao was hospitalized in Coral Gables Hospital in Miami in mid-March. He died Saturday of kidney failure.
Perhaps no other Latin music bass player was as well known on a massive scale as Cachao, who after nearly 30 years in relatively obscure exile, was "rediscovered" by actor and musician Andy Garcia. Garcia would subsequently produce the albums "Master Sessions, Vol I" and "Vol. 2" as well as the documentary "CachaoSComo Su Ritmo No Hay Otro" ("CachaoSLike His Rhythm There Is No Other"), all of which catapulted Cachao to widespread recognition and fame. Praised by jazz musicians, Cuban music lovers and the mainstream in general, the affable Cachao was reborn as a star in his late '70s and made the most of it, turning out a series of impeccable recordings.
- 3/25/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
MIAMI -- Cuban bass player Israel Lopez "Cachao", whose place in history as one of the creators of the mambo was forgotten literally for decades before he was rediscovered and launched to a broad audience in the 1990s, has died. He was 89.
Cachao was hospitalized in Coral Gables Hospital in Miami in mid-March. He died Saturday of kidney failure.
Perhaps no other Latin music bass player was as well known on a massive scale as Cachao, who after nearly 30 years in relatively obscure exile, was "rediscovered" by actor and musician Andy Garcia. Garcia would subsequently produce the albums "Master Sessions, Vol I" and "Vol. 2" as well as the documentary "CachaoSComo Su Ritmo No Hay Otro" ("CachaoSLike His Rhythm There Is No Other"), all of which catapulted Cachao to widespread recognition and fame. Praised by jazz musicians, Cuban music lovers and the mainstream in general, the affable Cachao was reborn as a star in his late '70s and made the most of it, turning out a series of impeccable recordings.
Cachao was hospitalized in Coral Gables Hospital in Miami in mid-March. He died Saturday of kidney failure.
Perhaps no other Latin music bass player was as well known on a massive scale as Cachao, who after nearly 30 years in relatively obscure exile, was "rediscovered" by actor and musician Andy Garcia. Garcia would subsequently produce the albums "Master Sessions, Vol I" and "Vol. 2" as well as the documentary "CachaoSComo Su Ritmo No Hay Otro" ("CachaoSLike His Rhythm There Is No Other"), all of which catapulted Cachao to widespread recognition and fame. Praised by jazz musicians, Cuban music lovers and the mainstream in general, the affable Cachao was reborn as a star in his late '70s and made the most of it, turning out a series of impeccable recordings.
- 3/24/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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