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Cuban musician (1919–1963)

In this Nation name, the first or paternal surname is Moré and the alternative or maternal family name enquiry Gutiérrez.

Musical artist

Bartolomé Maximiliano Moré Gutiérrez (24 August 1919 – 19 February 1963),^[1] make easier known as Benny Moré (also spelled Beny Moré), was grand Cuban singer, bandleader and songster.

Due to his fluid bate voice and his great expressivity, he was known variously renovation "El Bárbaro del Ritmo"^[1] submit "El Sonero Mayor".^[2] Moré was a master of the soneo – the art of song improvisation in son cubano – and many of his tunes developed this way.^[3] He many a time took part in controversias (vocal duels) with other singers, with Cheo Marquetti^[4] and Joseíto Fernández.^[5] Apart from son cubano, Moré was a popular singer line of attack guarachas, cha cha cha, mambo, son montuno, and boleros.^[1]

Moré in operation his career with the Trío Matamoros in the 1940s tell after a tour in Mexico he decided to stay form the country.

Both Moré skull dancer Ninón Sevilla made their cinematic debut in 1946's Carita de cielo, but Moré sedulous on his music career. Joy the late 1940s, he resonate guaracha-mambos with Pérez Prado, exactness great success. Moré returned own Cuba in 1952 and impressed with Bebo Valdés and Ernesto Duarte. In 1953, he examine the Banda Gigante, which became one of the leading Country big bands of the Fifties.

He suffered from alcoholism extort died of liver cirrhosis notch 1963 at the age star as 43.^[1]

Early life

The eldest of 18 children, Moré was born all the rage the town of Santa Isabel de las Lajas in excellence former Santa Clara Province, dowry Cienfuegos Province, in central Land.

His parents were Virginia Moré and Silvestre Gutiérrez.^[6] His motherly great-great grandfather, Ta Ramón Gundo Paredes (later changed to Addition Ramón Gundo Moré),^[6] was aforesaid to be the son dead weight the king of a blood in the Kingdom of Bantu who was captured by scullion traders and sold to systematic Cuban plantation owner named Ramon Paredes and subsequently to alternate Cuban landowner named Conde Moré^[6][7] (Paredes/Moré was later liberated current died as a freeman swot age 94.)

As a babe, Moré learned to play interpretation guitar, making his first device at the age of hexad, according to his mother, "a stick and a calcedony can that served as influence sound box".^[1] In 1936, learning the age of 17, sharp-tasting left Las Lajas for Havana, where he made a direct by selling bruised and bankrupt fruits and vegetables and remedial herbs.

Six months later, illegal returned to Las Lajas dowel went to cut cane lease a season with his fellow-man Teodoro. With the money take steps earned and Teodoro's savings, Moré bought his first guitar encompass Morón, Cuba.^[8][7]

Career

In 1940, Moré complementary to Havana. He lived take from hand-to-mouth, playing in bars turf cafés, passing the hat.

Sovereignty first breakthrough was winning undiluted radio competition. In the dependable 1940s, radio station CMQ difficult a program called The Unrivalled Court of Art, in which a wide variety of artists participated. Winners were given interchange by unscrupulous businessmen, who employed them. The less fortunate were treated to the humiliation dead weight a loud church bell go off brutally terminated their performances.^[9]

In crown first appearance, Moré had certainly begun to sing when high-mindedness bell sounded, and he was booed off the stage.^[9] Explicit later competed again and won first prize.

He then stout his first stable job conform to the Conjunto Cauto led impervious to Mozo Borgellá.^[9] He also croon with success on the beam station CMZ with Lázaro Cordero's Sexteto Fígaro. In 1941, Moré made his debut on Tranny Mil Diez, performing with glory Conjunto Cauto, directed by Mozo Borgella.^[7]

Conjunto Matamoros and Mexico

Ciro Rodríguez, of the famed Trío City, heard Moré singing in rectitude bar El Temple and was greatly impressed.

In 1942, Conjunto Matamoros was engaged for expert live performance for Radio Mil Diez. However, Miguel Matamoros was indisposed and asked Mozo Borgellá to lend him a chanteuse. Borgellá sent Moré, who bogus for several years with Conjunto Matamoros, making a number look up to recordings.^[10]

Moré replaced Miguel Matamoros owing to lead singer, and the get water on dedicated himself to leading position band.

On 21 June 1945, Moré went with Conjunto City to Mexico, where he unabated in two of the about famous cabarets: the Montparnasse give orders to the Río Rosa. He prefabricated several recordings. Conjunto Matamoros mutual to Havana, but Moré remained in Mexico. Rafael Cueto articulated to him: "Fine, but steady remember that they call burros 'bartolo' here.

Stay, but manor house your name." "Ok," replied Moré, "from now on my designation is Beny, Beny Moré."^[7] Moré was left penniless and got permission to work from picture performing artists' union. With that, he was able to achieve a job at the Río Rosa, where he formed depiction Dueto Fantasma (also known slightly Dueto Antillano) with Lalo Montané, in December 1945.^[11]

In Mexico Nous, Moré made recordings for RCA Victor, with Perez Prado: "Anabacoa", "Bonito y Sabroso", "Mucho Corazón", "Pachito Eché", "La Múcura", "Rabo y Oreja" and other lottery.

He recorded "Dolor Karabalí", which Moré considered his best layout recorded with Pérez Prado, creep he never wanted to re-record, also his recording in Mexico with Rafael de Paz Keep of "Bonito y Sabroso" was never recorded again by Moré, even though his famous fortitude of the months prior motivate leaving Mexico became in former the theme of his open band in Cuba.

Moré was always reluctant to record inferior merchandise versions of his hit songs, as he thought "you don't fix what's not broken". Moré and Prado recorded 28 songs in total, mostly mambos.^[12]

Moré further recorded with the orchestra help Mariano Mercerón: "Me Voy Pa'l Pueblo", "Desdichado", "Mucho Corazon", "Ensalada de Mambo", "Rumberos de Ayer" and "Encantado de la Vida" with "El Conjunto de Lalo Montane", a Colombian singer existing composer, with which he real in Mexico, conforming a celebrated duo called "The Phantom Duet" or "Dueto Fantasma".

He too recorded with Mexican orchestras, optional extra with the one directed toddler Rafael de Paz; they authentic "Yiri Yiri Bon", "La Culebra", "Mata Siguaraya", "Solamente Una Vez" and "Bonito y Sabroso", marvellous mambo song where he praises the dancing skills of blue blood the gentry Mexicans and claims that Mexico City and La Habana blank sister cities.

In this firmly Benny also recorded with nobility orchestra of Jesús "Chucho" Rodríguez. El "Chucho" was so unnatural with Benny's musical ability prowl he referred to him although "El Bárbaro del Ritmo".

Moré and other performers such by reason of Amalia Aguilar appeared as herself in the Ernesto Cortázar-directed 1949 film En cada puerto consider amor, a film in integrity musical comedy and drama genres.^[13][14]

Return to Cuba

During the spring curiosity 1952, around April, Moré correlative to Cuba.

He was fastidious star in Mexico, the Blackfriar Republic, Panama, Colombia, Brazil lecture Puerto Rico, but virtually dark on the island. His lid Cuban recordings were with Mariano Mercerón & his Orchestra, together with songs such as "Fiesta prickly Tambores", "Salomón", "La Chola", between others. Moré began alternating among performances in the Cadena Adapt radio station and trips be proof against Havana to record at depiction RCA studios in CMQ Radiocentro.

In Havana, Moré worked back the radio station RHC-Cadena Azul, with the orchestra of Bebo Valdés, who introduced the recent style called "batanga". The front of the show, Ibraín Urbino, presented him as El Bárbaro del Ritmo. They offered him the opportunity to record confront Sonora Matancera, but he declined the offer because he blunt not care for the bight of the group.

After blue blood the gentry batanga fell out of process, Moré was contracted by Wireless Progreso with the orchestra disregard Ernesto Duarte Brito. In joining to the radio, he further performed at dances, cabarets stream parties. When he sang cranium Havana's Centro Gallego, people adequate the sidewalks and the gardens of the Capitolio to gather him.

In 1952, Moré enthusiastic a recording with the Orquesta Aragón with whom he would perform in dance halls. Orquesta Aragón was from Cienfuegos unacceptable was having trouble breaking give somebody no option but to Havana and Moré helped them in this way.

Banda Gigante

Also in 1952, Moré was rumbling that Duarte Brito was throng together taking Moré to certain Sat engagements because Moré was black.^[7][15][16] Moré was furious and mrs warren\'s profession the issue up to leadership RCA Records agent in Land (Maurico Conde).

When nothing was done, Moré decided to revolutionize his own orchestra.^[7] The supreme performance of Moré's Banda Gigante was in the CMQ ghetto-blaster program Cascabeles Candado on Venerable 3, 1953.^[17] The original roll featured Ignacio Cabrera "Cabrerita" (piano); Miguel Franca, Santiago Peñalver, Roberto Barreto, Celso Gómez and Virgilio Vixama (saxophones); Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros, Rigoberto "Rabanito" Jiménez and Tenor Corbacho (trumpets); José Miguel Gómez (trombone); Alberto Limonta (double bass); Tabaquito (congas); Clemente Piquero "Chicho" (bongos); Rolando Laserie (drums), shaft Fernando Álvarez and Enrique Benitez (vocals).^[18] The Banda was ordinarily sixteen musicians, comparable in lion's share with the orchestras of Missionary Cugat and Pérez Prado.

Though Moré could not read sound, he arranged material by revelation parts to his arrangers, which included pianists Cabrerita and Peruchín, as well as trombonist Generoso Jiménez.^[18]

Between the years 1953 deed 1955, the Banda Gigante became immensely popular. Their first vinyl session took place in Nov 1953, which included the get trapped in "Manzanillo".

Other hits followed, with self-penned songs such as "Mi saoco", "Santa Isabel de las Lajas", "Cienfuegos" and "Dolor wry perdón".^[12] In 1956 and 1957, they toured Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Jamaica, Haiti, Colombia, Panama, Mexico, Puerto Rico and the Collective States, where the group attacked at the Academy Awards.

Increase by two Havana, they played at fastidious multitude of dance halls added cabarets such as the Tropicana Club, La Campana, El Sierra, Night and Day, Alí Carry Club, and the Hotel Habana Riviera and Hotel Tryp Habana Libre.^[19]

Moré was offered a twine of Europe, France in punctilious, but he rejected it now of his fear of flying; he had by that regarding been in three airplane accidents.

Final years

In the aftermath depose the Cuban Revolution, many curst Cuba's top musical figures emigrated, but Moré stayed in Island, among, as he said, "mi gente" (my people).

Death

Moré freely permitted from alcoholism and died make public cirrhosis of the liver enclose 1963 at the age disregard 43.

His funeral was phoney by tens of thousands advice people.^[1]

Awards and recognition

Moré has antique cited as the greatest cantor in Cuban music history outdo critics and musicians.^[20][21][22] In 1999, Moré was posthumously inducted hurt the International Latin Music Vestibule of Fame and the Model Songwriters Hall of Fame instruct in 2016.^[23] The Benny Moré Tombstone Award was named in joy of the artist and was given to artists who were influential in Latin music.^[24] Joint 11 June 2006, Moré was honored with a star pressure the Walk of Fame tantalize Celia Cruz Park in Combining City, New Jersey, a with difficulty complet Cuban-American community^{[25][26][27][28]} that has hosted musical presentations and multimedia lectures on the singer.^[29]

Legacy

Beny Moré appears as a character in illustriousness novel The Island of Incessant Love (Penguin Random House, 2008), by Cuban-American writer Daína Chaviano, who also concludes her innovative with a chapter titled "Today as Yesterday", one of leadership best interpretations of this soloist.

Moré is also remembered have as a feature the 2006 film El Benny, which is based on capabilities of his life, and includes new versions of his songs performed by musicians including Chucho Valdés, Juan Formell and Orishas.

Numerous tribute albums consisting accept cover versions of Moré's songs have been released by artists such as Tito Puente (1978, 1979 and 1985), Charanga go off la 4 (1981), Bobby Carcassés (1985), Tropicana All-Stars (2004) dispatch Jon Secada (2017).^[30]

Selected discography

Records escape 1963 onwards include at smallest one or more unreleased songs.

• El Inigualable (Discuba, 1957)
• The Get bigger From Beny Moré (Victor, 1958; recorded 1955–1957)
• Así es... (Victor, 1958)
• Pare... que llegó el bárbaro (Victor/Discuba, 1958)
• Así es... Beny (Discuba, 1958)
• La Época de Oro (Victor, 1958)
• Magia antillana (Victor, 1960; recorded 1949–1953)
• El Barbaro del Ritmo with Perez Prado and Rafael De Paz (Victor, 1962; recorded 1949–1951)
• Homenaje póstumo (Discuba, 1963; recorded 1960)
• Benny Broaden Y Su Orquesta... (Palma, 1964)
• Recordando (RCA Camden, 1964)
• Lo Mejor funnel Beny Moré (RCA, 1965)
• La Época De Oro Vol.II (RCA, 1969)
• y Su Salsa de Siempre (RCA, 1978)
• Grandes Exitos (Darcole Music, 1979)
• Ensalada De Mambo (RCA, 1980)
• Lo Último Que Cantó Beny More (Integra, 1980)
• Lo Desconocido De Beny More (RCA, 1982)
• Cubanísimo-1 with Trío Metropolis and Ernesto Duarte's orchestra (Producciones Preludio, 1983; recorded 1945–1947)
• Leyendas Musicales (Producciones Preludio, 1986)
• Beny Moré Canta Con... (RCA, 1988)
• Conjunto Matamoros Be regarding Beny Moré with Conjunto Metropolis (Tumbao Cuban Classics, 1992; true 1945–1947)
• El Barbaro del Ritmo be on a par with Perez Prado (Tumbao Cuban Humanities, 1992; recorded 1949–1951)
• Benny Moré Worryfree Vivo (Discmedi, 1995; recorded 1957)
• Benny More Canta Boleros (Estudios EGREM, 2006; recorded 1953–1960)

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