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Israel "Cachao" López
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Israel "Cachao" López (September 14, 1918 – March 22, 2008), often known just as "Cachao" (pronounced kah-CHOW) was a Cuban mambo musician, bassist and composer, who has helped bring mambo music to popularity in the United States of America in the early 1950s. He was born in Havana, Cuba. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, won several Grammy Awards, and has been described as "the inventor of the mambo".[1] He is considered a master of descarga (Latin jam sessions). Contents [hide] * 1 Legacy and influence * 2 History * 3 Awards * 4 References * 5 External links [edit] Legacy and influence He was, in his last years, the most important living figure in Cuban music, on or off the island.[citation needed] And according to Cuban-music historian Ned Sublette he was "arguably the most important bassist in twentieth-century popular music", innovating not only Cuban music but also influencing the now familiar bass lines of American R&B, "which have become such a part of the environment that we don't even think where they came from". [edit] History López played the acoustic bass with his late brother, multi-instrumentalist Orestes López. The brothers composed literally thousands of songs together and were heavily influential on Cuban music from the 1930s to the 1950s. They introduced the nuevo ritmo ("new rhythm") in the late 1930s, which transformed the danzón by introducing African rhythms into Cuban music, which led to mambo. A possibly more impor
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Master Sessions, Vol. 1
Cuba Linda
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Master Sessions Vol. II
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Cuban Jam Sessions In Miniature "Descargas"
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Cuban Art Music: Israel Cachao Lopez & Compay Segundo
Grand Theft Auto Vice City - Espantoso
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Havana Lounge - Cuban Jazz Classics
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The Best Cuban Album In The World ... Ever! [Disc 1]
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Mambo Master
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Radio Nova - 3ème volume - 09
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¡ Ahora Sí!
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Nu Yorica!