Osvaldo Chacón

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Born in Ciudad Havana/Cuba march 28! Osvaldo Chacón began his musical career with some of Cuba’s top salsa bands, including Paulito FG and El Medico de la Salsa (with whom he featured on the CD Una Aventura Loca). In 1995 he joined Bamboleo as lead male singer (alongside the charismatic female duo of Haila and Vannia) and featured on their seminal CD Te Gusto o te caigo bien (You like me, fancy me), released in 1997 on the American label Ahí-Namá, for which he also wrote some of the songs including the title track. The track went on to win Chacón a prize for “best debut work” in Cuba’s influential annual music industry awards Cubadisco 98. Chacón also featured in the performance of the longest son ever played in the world (as registered in the Guinness Book of Records, being part of the 1997 line-up of Cuba’s leading popular orchestras at Havana’s famous Salon Rosado de la Tropicale). In 1997 Chacón came to London to establish his own group and rapidly established himself as a leading exponent in the UK of the new and exciting sound of Cuban timba, seldom heard live in this country at that time. While developing Chacón y su Timba. Osvaldo Chacón continued to be in demand as a singer and solo artist, and has been invited to perform alongside the likes of Adalberto Santiago, Azuquita, Tito Allen (Fania All Stars) Roberto Plat, Salsaceltica, Herman Olivera and Eddie Palmieri (at Ronnie Scott’s), the great Latin percussionist Giovanni Hildago (at the Queen Elizabeth Hall), Chick

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