◇ image via WikipediaPérez Prado
Pérez Prado is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Alex Acuña and Moliendo café. Those roots explain a lot about how Pérez Prado arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Tito Puente, Xavier Cugat, Beny Moré, Compay Segundo and Ibrahim Ferrer, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Mongo Santamaria, Beny Moré, Lou Bega, Ricky Nelson and Maynard Ferguson, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 29 connections around Pérez Prado, reaching back through Alex Acuña and forward to Mongo Santamaria. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Dámaso Pérez Prado was a Cuban bandleader, pianist, composer and arranger who popularized the mambo in the 1950s. His big band adaptation of the danzón-mambo proved to be a worldwide success with hits such as "Mambo No. 5", earning him the nickname "The King of the Mambo". In 1955, Pérez Prado and his orchestra topped the charts in the US and UK with a mambo cover of Louiguy's "Cherry Pink ". He frequently made brief appearances in films, primarily of the rumberas genre, and his music was featured in films such as La Dolce Vita.
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Pérez Prado connections
Pérez Prado grew out of Alex Acuña and Moliendo café, shares an orbit with Tito Puente, Xavier Cugat, Beny Moré and Compay Segundo, went on to shape Mongo Santamaria, Beny Moré, Lou Bega and Ricky Nelson. 29 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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- Tito Puenteartist
- Xavier Cugatartist
- Beny Moréartist
- Compay Segundoartist
- Ibrahim Ferrerartist
- Buena Vista Social Clubartist
- La Sonora Matanceraartist
- Eliades Ochoaartist
- Mongo Santamariaartist
- Vieja Trova Santiagueraartist
- Los Van Vanartist
- Afro-Cuban All Starsartist
- Orishasartist
- José Felicianoartist
- Pete Rodriguezartist
- Candidoartist
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