Damaso Pérez Prado
Biography
Dámaso Pérez Prado (11 December 1916, Matanzas, Cuba – 14 September 1989, Mexico City) was a Cuban bandleader, singer, organist, pianist and composer.
As a teenager, Pérez Prado was a pianist and arranger with the Orquesta Casino de la Playa in Havana. He popularized the mambo in Cuba in his arrangements for the orquesta. In 1948, he formed his own band, and made many records which were distributed in South America. He moved to Mexico City in 1949, where he remained for the rest of his life. He is often referred to as the King of the Mambo.
Prado wrote many pieces in the mambo style, the most famous of which are Mambo Jambo, and Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White.
Works for Winds
Adaptable Music
- Mambo No. 5 (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Thorp) (1949/)
All Wind Works
- Guaglione (arr. Burton) (2007)
- Mambo Fever
- Mambo Jambo (arr. Iwai) (1951/1995)
- Mambo No. 5 (arr. Bocook) (1999)
- Mambo No. 5 (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Thorp) (1949/)
- Patrizia (arr. Walter) (2008)
- Que Rico el Mambo. See: Mambo Jambo
Resources
- Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music. "Perez Prado." Accessed 13 March 2017
- Pérez Prado, Wikipedia Accessed 13 March 2017