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1909
Danzón interpreter and singer Barbarito Diez was born.
04 de Diciembre de 1909
He was born in Bolondrón, Matanzas on December 4th, 1909 and died in Havana on May 6th, 1995. Since he was four years old he moved to Manatí Sugar Mill, in the former Oriente province. Where he began his artistic activities as amateur. In 1930 he settled in Havana, where next year he joined the trio composed by Graciano Gomez and Isaac Oviedo. In 1935 he joined, the Antonio Maria Romeu typical orchestra, until his last presentations. He has recorded eleven long playing records in which he performs his wide repertory of Cuban danzones.
1909
Percusionist and band leader Machito was born.
04 de Diciembre de 1909
He was born in December 4th, 1909. After a youth dedicated to kettle-drums and conga-drums in Havana, he moved to New York where he arranged his Afrocubans in 1940. In this band he got a mix of jazz elements and Cuban music. Fans to this music in North America ranked his orchestra as the greatest among other several Afro Cubans. He was continuously called to work in New York dancing halls. His orchestra arranger was the well known Mario Bauzá, who played the leading trumpet in the band.
1950
Pianist and orchestra conductor Eliseo Grenet died.
04 de Diciembre de 1950
He was born in Havana on June 12th, 1893 and died on December 4th, 1950. When he was five years old he began to study piano, at the age of nine he staged in a school party his musical play La geografía física, and at the age of thirteen played the piano in La Caricatura Cinema entertaining silent movies. At the age of sixteen he conducted the orchestra of the Havana Politeama. In 1926 he toured the island heading the orchestra of the Arquímedes Pous Company.
Later he went to different nations of America with a group of Cuban artists and musicians. In 1932, just few months after having returned, he had to leave the country because dictator Gerardo Machado´s henchmen were after him. He came back to Havana one year later, when the dictatorship was overthrown. In 1936 he went to New York where he developed a positive labor spreading Cuban music; there he intoduced the Conga. Then, he travelled to Spain and other European centers and shortly afterwards he came back.
He created music for some films: Escándalo de estrellas, Conga bar, Estampas coloniales, Milonga de arrabal and many theatre plays: Niña Rita, La canción del mendigo, Bohemia, Como las golondrinas, La virgen morena, El submarino cubano, as well as Nicolás Guillén poems, Motivos de son. In 1948 he won the First Prize in the Cuban Song Contest with “El Sitierito”.
Within his work outstands the danzones: “La Mora”, “Si me pides el pescao”, “Si muero en la Carretera”, “Papa Montero”; the songs: “Las perlas de tu boca”, “Tabaco verde”, “Lamento esclavo”, los pregones: “Rica pulpa”, “El tamalero”; the tangos congos: “Espabílate”, “Mama Inés”; the sones: “Facundo”, “Lamento cubano”, “Negro bembón”; and, specially, the sucu-sucu (his recreation from Isle of Pines folklore): “Felipe Blanco” and “Domingo Pantoja”.
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