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Valdés, Chucho

LC control no.n 94051940
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Personal name headingValdés, Chucho
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Variant(s)Valdés, Jesús
Valdez, Chucho
See alsoCorporate body: Chucho Valdés Trio
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Birth date19411009
Place of birthQuivicán (Cuba)
Profession or occupationComposer Bandleader Pianist
Found inMisa negra [SR] p1987: label (Jesus Valdés) container (Jesus "Chucho" Valdés)
LC data base, 5-31-94 (hdg.: Valdés, Chucho)
New Grove dict. of jazz, 2nd ed. (Valdés, Chucho (Jesús, Sr.); b. Oct. 9, 1941, Quivicán, near San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba; Cuban keyboard player, composer, and bandleader)
Tumi sessions, p2007: label (Chucho Valdez)
Wikipedia, Mar. 25, 2013 (Chucho Valdés; born Jesús Dionisio Valdés; October 9, 1941 in Quivicán, Cuba; Cuban pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger. In 1972 he founded the group Irakere, one of Cuba's best-known Latin jazz bands. His father is the famed Cuban pianist and former director of Havana's famous "Tropicana" night club band Bebo Valdés. He has won five Grammy Award and three Latin Grammy Awards)