Orestes “Macho” Lopez

b. 29 August 1908, Havana, Cuba. As a kid López studied many tools, including piano and cello, and he was briefly with an area symphony orchestra. His sibling, Israel ‘Cachao’ López, also became a musician and important composer. Through the past due 20s onwards, López used charanga bands such as for example that led by Miguel Vásquez and he also led and co-led rings. In 1937 he became a member of Antonio Arcaño’s music group, Sus Maravillas. Playing piano, cello and bass, López also had written many arrangements furthermore to composing some unique music. One of is own compositions, broadcast by Arcaño in 1938, was a rhythmic danzón entitled ‘Mambo’, with which López unwittingly laid the building blocks for what would become, by method of variants, two immensely well-known dance crazes. Among these was the mambo, although Perez Prado would place state to originating the proper execution after creating a musical discovery in 1949. Another was the cha cha cha, popularized by Enrique Jorrín. López’s ‘Mambo’ seems to have got its roots inside a tumbao of his sibling’s. Among additional tracks López either made up or popularized through his infectiously rhythmic preparations had been ‘Camina Juan Pescao’, ‘Un Truco De Regatillo’, ‘Los Jóvenes De La Defensa’ and ‘Un Moro Unéctrico’.