Bebo Valdés, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Bebo Valdés

Cuban musician

Date of Birth: 09-Oct-1918

Place of Birth: Quivicán, Mayabeque Province, Cuba

Date of Death: 22-Mar-2013

Profession: composer, conductor, record producer, pianist, jazz musician

Nationality: Cuba

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Dionisio Ramón Emilio Valdés Amaro (October 9, 1918 – March 22, 2013), better known as Bebo Valdés, was a Cuban pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger.
He was a central figure in the golden age of Cuban music, especially due to his big band arrangements and compositions of mambo, chachachá and batanga, a genre he created in 1952.
He was the director of the Radio Mil Diez house band and the Tropicana Club orchestra, before forming his own big band, Orquesta Sabor de Cuba, in 1957.
However, after the end of the Cuban Revolution, in 1960, Bebo left his family behind and went into exile in Mexico before settling in Sweden, where he remarried.
His musical hiatus lasted until 1994, when a collaboration with Paquito D'Rivera brought him back into the music business.
By the time of his death in 2013, he had recorded several new albums, earning multiple Grammy Awards.
His son Chucho Valdés is also a successul pianist and bandleader.