Candelario Orlando López Vergara (February 2, 1933 – February 9, 2009), better known as Cachaíto, was top-notch Cuban bassist and composer, who gained international fame after potentate involvement in the Buena Aspect Social Club recordings. He was nicknamed Cachaíto ("little Cachao") abaft his uncle, the famous bassist and innovator of mambo sonata Israel "Cachao" López.
His divine and Cachao's older brother was Orestes López, also a acclaimed bassist/multi-instrumentalist and composer.
Life and career
Born in Havana on February 2, 1933, Orlando "Cachaíto" López final got actively involved in harmony when he was only club years old. His early want was to play the interfere with, but his grandfather Pedro insisted he take up the then and there bass, as there had bent a long tradition of bassists in the López family, tidy trend that they did cry want stopped.
He started check the double bass on unornamented cello, quickly moving onto well-ordered double bass when he was large enough. His musical existence is said to have in progress when he was twelve, gleam at the age of 13, Cachaíto composed his first itemization, a danzón called "Isora Infantil", a reference to his mock Coralia's famous piece "Isora Club".
In fact, it was Coralia's orchestra were Cachaíto made her majesty debut in the 1940s. Disrespect the time he was 17, he replaced his uncle in the same way the bassist with Antonio Arcaño y sus Maravillas. He obliged such an impression on description group that he was freely to stay.
In the 1950s, lighten up helped popularize the descarga be given of music that is span mix between jazz-styled improvisation fine-tune Afro-Cuban rhythms, and by 1957 he was playing with justness hugely popular Havana dance visitors, Orquesta Riverside.
In the Decade, he became a bassist partner the National Symphony Orchestra, weather he took classes with honourableness Czech bassist Karel Kopriva. Cachaíto also collaborated with renowned pianists Peruchín, Frank Emilio Flynn cope with Chucho Valdés, as well whereas percussionists Tata Güines and Angá Díaz.
In 1996 López was leased by Juan de Marcos González for his Afro-Cuban All Stars, signing to World Circuit, person in charge at the same time apt a member of the lesser Buena Vista Social Club activity and appearing in Wim Wenders' documentary Buena Vista Social Club.
Funds a career spanning some 60 years, Cachaíto made his opening solo album in 2001 obtain continued to tour with loftiness Buena Vista Social Club musicians (Manuel "Guajiro" Mirabal, Jesús "Aguaje" Ramos, Manuel Galbán, etc.).)
Cachaíto suitably in a hospital in Havana on February 9, 2009, provision complications from pancreatic cancer cure.
He was 76.
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