MUSICAL VIDEO: CUBA & ‘EL Cigala’ honor “Bebo” Valdés” (Full Concert)
Dionisio Ramón Emilio Valdés Amaro (October 9, 1918 – March 22, 2013), better known as Bebo Valdés, was a Cuban pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger. He was a central figure in the golden age of Cuban music, led two famous big bands, and was one of the “house” arrangers for the Tropicana Club.
“BEBO DE CUBA”.
Valdés was first married to Pilar Valdés. This marriage produced five children, one of whom is the pianist Chucho Valdés. In 1963 he stopped in Sweden on a tour with the Lecuona Cuban Boys. There he met the 18-year-old Rose Marie Pehrson (August 28, 1928), a cavalry officer’s daughter. They got married the same year and he settled in Sweden. He described it as the most important moment of his life: “It was like being hit by lightning,” he said. “If you meet a woman and you want to change your life you have to choose between love and art.”[15] They remained together until her death in 2012.
Valdés was in the middle of the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, which he had suffered for several years,[17] when he died in Stockholm, Sweden, on March 22, 2013, aged 94.
MUSICAL VIDEO: CUBA Y ‘EL Cigala’ honor “Bebo” Valdés” (Full Concert)
VIDEO MUSICAL: Cuba y “El Cigala”, homenaje al “Bebo de Cuba”. (Concierto Completo).
https://youtu.be/OVg1ZUHmpds
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