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Chappottin y Sus Estrellas
12+ albums
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Conjunto Chappottin is a Cuban Son band from Havana under the direction of the trumpet player, arranger und musical director Jesus Angel Chappotin Coto and the percussionis und singer Miguel Cuni jr.. The group is one of the traditional Son bands in Cuba with more than 50 years of experience. The founding of the band dates back to the 1940s. Its founder Arsenio Rodríguez was one the country's most renowned band leader with major influences on the Latin jazz and Salsa music of the next decades. With his Conjunto he was the first to add reed and brass instruments to a Latin band at that time. When Arsenio Rodríguez left Cuba in 1950 to undergo an ophthalmological intervention in New York to treat his eye disease, he handed the musical direction over to his first trumpet player, Felix Chappottin. The band was renamed "Felix Chappottin y su Conjunto todos estrellas". Felix Chappottin directed the band successfully until the year of his death in 1983. From 1983 until the 1990s his son Angel Chappottin Valdes was musical director. Since then the grandson of Felix Chappottin Jesus Angel Chappottin Coto has directed the "Conjunto Chappottin" together Miguelito Cuni jr., singer, percussionist. Miguelito Cuni is the son of the former lead singer Miguel Cuni. Conjunto Chappottin y sus estrellas is one of the most renowned Son bands in Cuba and has performed in the major Cuban music halls and in many American, European and African countries. The band dedicates to the traditional son wit
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Havanna Lounge
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Salsa
Cuba Classics 2: Dancing With the Enemy
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Chappottín Y Sus Estrellas
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The Real Cuban Music - Chappottín y Sus Estrellas (Remasterizado)
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Perlas Cubanas: Chappottin y Sus Estrellas
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Nereyda
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Son, Bolero y Montuno Con Sabor a Quimbombó
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Canta: Miguelito Cuni
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El Son De Cuba
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Cuba Tradicional (1)
Chappottin Y Sus Estrellas