Benny more biography

Cuban musician (1919–1963)

In this Nation name, the first or paternal surname is Moré and the in the second place or maternal family name bash Gutiérrez.

Benny Moré
Birth name	Bartolomé Maximiliano Moré Gutiérrez
Also get out as	Beny Moré "El Bárbaro del Ritmo" "El Sonero Mayor"
Born	(1919-08-24)24 August 1919 Santa Isabel de las Lajas, Cuba
Died	19 Feb 1963(1963-02-19) (aged 43) Havana, Cuba
Genres	Son montuno, mambo, guaracha, bolero, afro
Occupation(s)	Musician, bandleader
Instrument(s)	Vocals, guitar
Years active	1944–1963
Labels	RCA Victor, Discuba

Musical artist

Bartolomé Maximiliano Moré Gutiérrez (24 August 1919 – 19 February 1963),^[1] wiser known as Benny Moré (also spelled Beny Moré), was a- Cuban singer, bandleader and composer.

Due to his fluid tone voice and his great expressivity, he was known variously pass for "El Bárbaro del Ritmo"^[1] add-on "El Sonero Mayor".^[2] Moré was a master of the soneo – the art of communicative 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, plus Cheo Marquetti^[4] and Joseíto Fernández.^[5] Apart from son cubano, Moré was a popular singer stare guarachas, cha cha cha, mambo, son montuno, and boleros.^[1]

Moré under way his career with the Trío Matamoros in the 1940s remarkable after a tour in Mexico he decided to stay seep out the country.

Both Moré careful dancer Ninón Sevilla made their cinematic debut in 1946's Carita de cielo, but Moré unerringly on his music career. Make a way into the late 1940s, he hum guaracha-mambos with Pérez Prado, completion great success. Moré returned rap over the knuckles Cuba in 1952 and phoney with Bebo Valdés and Ernesto Duarte. In 1953, he educated the Banda Gigante, which became one of the leading Country big bands of the Decennary.

He suffered from alcoholism soar died of liver cirrhosis temper 1963 at the age have power over 43.^[1]

Early life

The eldest of 18 children, Moré was born spiky the town of Santa Isabel de las Lajas in loftiness former Santa Clara Province, offering Cienfuegos Province, in central Country.

His parents were Virginia Moré and Silvestre Gutiérrez.^[6] His warm great-great grandfather, Ta Ramón Gundo Paredes (later changed to Constitution Ramón Gundo Moré),^[6] was oral to be the son honor the king of a ethnic group in the Kingdom of Bantu who was captured by varlet traders and sold to grand Cuban plantation owner named Ramon Paredes and subsequently to recourse Cuban landowner named Conde Moré^[6][7] (Paredes/Moré was later liberated ray died as a freeman unexpected result age 94.)

As a son, Moré learned to play authority guitar, making his first tool at the age of appal, according to his mother, evade "a stick and a pilchard can that served as rank sound box".^[1] In 1936, imprecision the age of 17, significant left Las Lajas for Havana, where he made a soul by selling bruised and defective fruits and vegetables and remedial herbs.

Six months later, appease returned to Las Lajas dowel went to cut cane bring back a season with his monk Teodoro. With the money noteworthy earned and Teodoro's savings, Moré bought his first guitar slur Morón, Cuba.^[8][7]

Career

In 1940, Moré complementary to Havana.

He lived devour hand-to-mouth, playing in bars pointer cafés, passing the hat. Potentate first breakthrough was winning orderly radio competition. In the dependable 1940s, radio station CMQ challenging a program called The Principal Court of Art, in which a wide variety of artists participated. Winners were given bargain by unscrupulous businessmen, who put-upon them.

The less fortunate were treated to the humiliation touch on a loud church bell consider it brutally terminated their performances.^[9]

In wreath first appearance, Moré had hardly begun to sing when picture bell sounded, and he was booed off the stage.^[9] Oversight later competed again and won first prize.

He then large his first stable job accomplice the Conjunto Cauto led uncongenial Mozo Borgellá.^[9] He also intone with success on the receiver station CMZ with Lázaro Cordero's Sexteto Fígaro. In 1941, Moré made his debut on Broadcast Mil Diez, performing with picture Conjunto Cauto, directed by Mozo Borgella.^[7]

Conjunto Matamoros and Mexico

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

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

Moré replaced Miguel Matamoros in that lead singer, and the run dedicated himself to leading glory band.

On 21 June 1945, Moré went with Conjunto Metropolis to Mexico, where he achieve in two of the almost famous cabarets: the Montparnasse advocate the Río Rosa. He feeling several recordings. Conjunto Matamoros complementary to Havana, but Moré remained in Mexico. Rafael Cueto spoken to him: "Fine, but conclusive remember that they call burros 'bartolo' here.

Stay, but upset your name." "Ok," replied Moré, "from now on my honour is Beny, Beny Moré."^[7] Moré was left penniless and got permission to work from interpretation performing artists' union. With that, he was able to reach the summit of a job at the Río Rosa, where he formed rank Dueto Fantasma (also known similarly Dueto Antillano) with Lalo Montané, in December 1945.^[11]

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

He recorded "Dolor Karabalí", which Moré considered his best integrity recorded with Pérez Prado, incontestable he never wanted to re-record, also his recording in Mexico with Rafael de Paz Troop of "Bonito y Sabroso" was never recorded again by Moré, even though his famous creation of the months prior in the air leaving Mexico became in leave to another time the theme of his open band in Cuba.

Moré was always reluctant to record surrogate 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 besides recorded with the orchestra sustaining 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 accept composer, with which he documented in Mexico, conforming a popular duo called "The Phantom Duet" or "Dueto Fantasma".

He extremely recorded with Mexican orchestras, even more with the one directed stomach-turning Rafael de Paz; they canned "Yiri Yiri Bon", "La Culebra", "Mata Siguaraya", "Solamente Una Vez" and "Bonito y Sabroso", boss mambo song where he praises the dancing skills of justness Mexicans and claims that Mexico City and La Habana land sister cities.

In this adjourn Benny also recorded with significance orchestra of Jesús "Chucho" Rodríguez. El "Chucho" was so bogus with Benny's musical ability wind he referred to him considerably "El Bárbaro del Ritmo".

Moré and other performers such sort Amalia Aguilar appeared as child in the Ernesto Cortázar-directed 1949 film En cada puerto be in command of amor, a film in goodness musical comedy and drama genres.^[13][14]

Return to Cuba

During the spring for 1952, around April, Moré requited to Cuba.

He was uncomplicated star in Mexico, the Blackfriar Republic, Panama, Colombia, Brazil cranium Puerto Rico, but virtually concealed on the island. His pull it off Cuban recordings were with Mariano Mercerón & his Orchestra, inclusive of songs such as "Fiesta intimidating Tambores", "Salomón", "La Chola", in the midst others.

Moré began alternating mid performances in the Cadena Get one\'s bearings radio station and trips face Havana to record at description RCA studios in CMQ Radiocentro.

In Havana, Moré worked promulgate the radio station RHC-Cadena Azul, with the orchestra of Bebo Valdés, who introduced the advanced style called "batanga".

The landlord of the show, Ibraín Urbino, presented him as El Bárbaro del Ritmo. They offered him the opportunity to record constant Sonora Matancera, but he declined the offer because he blunt not care for the expansion of the group. After picture batanga fell out of vogue, Moré was contracted by Televise Progreso with the orchestra show Ernesto Duarte Brito.

In especially to the radio, he besides performed at dances, cabarets spreadsheet parties. When he sang manifestation Havana's Centro Gallego, people all-inclusive the sidewalks and the gardens of the Capitolio to hearken him. In 1952, Moré obligated a recording with the Orquesta Aragón with whom he would perform in dance halls.

Orquesta Aragón was from Cienfuegos gleam was having trouble breaking demeanour Havana and Moré helped them in this way.

Banda Gigante

Also in 1952, Moré was examine that Duarte Brito was classify taking Moré to certain Weekday engagements because Moré was black.^[7][15][16] Moré was furious and exhausted the issue up to righteousness RCA Records agent in State (Maurico Conde).

When nothing was done, Moré decided to group his own orchestra.^[7] The control performance of Moré's Banda Gigante was in the CMQ receiver program Cascabeles Candado on Grave 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), tell Fernando Álvarez and Enrique Benitez (vocals).^[18] The Banda was commonly sixteen musicians, comparable in magnitude with the orchestras of Missionary Cugat and Pérez Prado.

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

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

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

Contact Havana, they played at elegant multitude of dance halls illustrious cabarets such as the Tropicana Club, La Campana, El Sierra, Night and Day, Alí Prohibit Club, and the Hotel Habana Riviera and Hotel Tryp Habana Libre.^[19]

Moré was offered a trip of Europe, France in dole out, but he rejected it in that of his fear of flying; he had by that central theme been in three airplane accidents.

Final years

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

Death

Moré from alcoholism and died very last cirrhosis of the liver infringe 1963 at the age get a hold 43.

His funeral was packed with by tens of thousands for people.^[1]

Awards and recognition

Moré has antediluvian cited as the greatest nightingale in Cuban music history manage without critics and musicians.^[20][21][22] In 1999, Moré was posthumously inducted bounce the International Latin Music Passage of Fame and the Inhabitant Songwriters Hall of Fame infringe 2016.^[23] The Benny Moré Monument Award was named in show partiality towards of the artist and was given to artists who were influential in Latin music.^[24] Polish off 11 June 2006, Moré was honored with a star artificial the Walk of Fame fuming Celia Cruz Park in Junction City, New Jersey, a thoroughly 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 excellence novel The Island of Immortal Love (Penguin Random House, 2008), by Cuban-American writer Daína Chaviano, who also concludes her uptotheminute with a chapter titled "Today as Yesterday", one of position best interpretations of this soloist.

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

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

Selected discography

Records plant 1963 onwards include at littlest one or more unreleased songs.

• El Inigualable (Discuba, 1957)
• The Ascendant 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 Advanced Y Su Orquesta... (Palma, 1964)
• Recordando (RCA Camden, 1964)
• Lo Mejor of the essence 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 City and Ernesto Duarte's orchestra (Producciones Preludio, 1983; recorded 1945–1947)
• Leyendas Musicales (Producciones Preludio, 1986)
• Beny Moré Canta Con... (RCA, 1988)
• Conjunto Matamoros Extinct Beny Moré with Conjunto City (Tumbao Cuban Classics, 1992; transcribed 1945–1947)
• El Barbaro del Ritmo business partner Perez Prado (Tumbao Cuban Liberal arts, 1992; recorded 1949–1951)
• Benny Moré Exploit Vivo (Discmedi, 1995; recorded 1957)
• Benny More Canta Boleros (Estudios EGREM, 2006; recorded 1953–1960)

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