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1904
Lawyer and writer Vidal Morales y Morales died.
27 de Agosto de 1904
He was born in Havana in April 21st, 1848 and died in August 27th, 1904. After concluding elementary and high school he enter the University of Havana, where he graduated as Licentiate in Civil Laws (1870). He became interested on our historical and literary past influenced by Anselmo Suárez y Romero and Antonio Bachiller y Morales. His earliest journalistic works were published in La Tertulia, with an article entitled: "Páginas olvidadas de Espronceda." ("Espronceda´s Forgotten Pages) in 1873.
1923
Singer Rolando Laserie Rodríguez was born.
27 de Agosto de 1923
He was born in Matas, Santa Clara, in August 27th, 1923 and died in Miami, U.S.A., on November 22nd, 1998. At the age of nine, his elder brother, Luis M. Laserie, taught him to play kettle drums, although along his career “he learnt some solfeggio”, his musical talent was intuitive.
In 1957 he recorded for the GEMA House, and once ranked among the best his quite fast career of presentations, recordings and cheers.
In 1960, he left Cuba, and worked in Mexico, Argentina and all Latin America. He lived in Venezuela and New York, and later moved to Miami in the mids 70. He was the only Cuban singer whose popularity matched Benny Moré. During his musical career, he was known as one of the highest performers of Cuban son, as well as guarachas, salsa and even tangos, in his own style. He was known among his followers as "El Guapo de la Canción". (“The Brave Guy of the Song”).
1982
Musician Pascasio Alonso Fajardo passed away.
27 de Agosto de 1982
Musician Pascasio Alonso Fajardo, better known as Pacho Alonso and one of the most popular performers of Cuban popular music and an outstanding band leader. He was born on August 22, 1928 in Santiago de Cuba and died on August 27, 1982 in Havana.
He worked as teacher, but very soon he understood that his true vocation was becoming an artist.
In 1951, when Mariano Mercerón set up his jazz band, Pacho Alonso was one of the vocalists of this ensemble with which Alonso made his first recordings. In 1954, he created his own group with the name of Pacho Alonso y sus Modernistas which would be characterized by a marked santiaguera thematic. Four years later, he restructured the group and gave way to Pacho Alonso y sus Bocucos and moved to Havana. Later, he created the group Pacho Alonso y sus Pachucos.
As a vocalist he had an extraordinary tuning, phrasing and perfect metric.
He used to sing what can be called sort of musical scenes of costumbrismo and characters of his native Santiago de Cuba. His style was called the Pacho style.
In 1962, he made a journey to several countries of Europe. Two years later the composer Enrique Bonne proposed Pacho the idea of creating the rhythm Pilon which would basically take from the rhythmic, melodic elements and timbre of the órgano oriental and the movement of the body (as if it danced) of the peasants in the eastern mountains when they shell and mill or squash the coffee toasted in the pilon, a sort of big mortar made of a trunk of hollowed tree.
Pacho Alonso performed successfully in several countries.
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