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Campbell Armstrong (25 February 1944 – 1 March 2013) was born Thomas Campbell Black [1] and was a Scottish author who graduated with a degree in philosophy from the University of Sussex, England. [2] He taught creative writing from 1971 to 1974 at the State University of New York at Oswego; from 1975 to 1978 he taught at Arizona State ...
The Mambo Kings is a 1992 musical drama film based on the 1989 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos. The film was directed and produced by Arne Glimcher , and stars Armand Assante , Antonio Banderas , Cathy Moriarty and Maruschka Detmers .
The Mambo Kings is the soundtrack to the 1992 film of the same name, based on Oscar Hijuelos's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love.Artists featured on the album include Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, Benny Moré, Arturo Sandoval, Linda Ronstadt and Los Lobos.
Israel López Valdés (September 14, 1918 – March 22, 2008), better known as Cachao (/ k ə ˈ tʃ aʊ / kə-CHOW), was a Cuban double bassist and composer.Cachao is widely known as the co-creator of the mambo and a master of the descarga (improvised jam sessions). [2]
Mambo is a Latin dance of Cuba which was developed in the 1940s when the music genre of the same name became popular throughout Latin America. The original ballroom dance which emerged in Cuba and Mexico was related to the danzón , albeit faster and less rigid.
It was the basis for a 1992 motion picture, The Mambo Kings, as well as a musical in 2005. The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love was published in 1989, and soon became a huge international bestseller. It tells the story of Cesar Castillo, an aged musician who once had a small amount of fame when he and his brother appeared on an episode of I Love ...
Mambo sauce has been a longtime favorite in Washington, D.C., according to the folks at Capital City, a family-owned Maryland-based company that makes the popular sweet and sticky sauce. And while ...
Cuban Pete may refer to one of the following: . Cuban Pete, a 1946 film starring Desi Arnaz; Cuban Pete, nickname of Mambo dancer Pedro Aguilar (1927–2009) "Cuban Pete", a song performed by Mantovani & His Tipica Orchestra (1936) and Louis Armstrong (1937) and popularized by Desi Arnaz (1946).