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Chucho Valdés

Cuban pianist and composer Chucho Valdés has been at the pinnacle of Latin jazz since his band Irakere won the Grammy Award for Best Latin Performance in 1979. A major figure in the artistic breakthrough of Cuban musicians despite America's blockade of that country, he has continued to win acclaim and awards for his Afro-Cuban sound with Irakere and other sidemen ever since. Son of the late pianist Ramon 'Bebo' Valdés, bandleader at the famed Havana nightspot Tropicana, he studied classical musical as a child but was soon exposed to the American artists who flocked to Havana t...