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José Rosario Oviedo (October 5, 1885 – 1927), better known as Malanga, was a Cuban rumba dancer. He is considered one of the most famous columbia dancers and his mysterious death has been the subject of numerous essays, poems and songs, most notably "Malanga murió", written by Faustino Drake and performed by Arsenio Rodríguez amongst others.
Celia Caridad Cruz Alfonso [a] (21 October 1925 – 16 July 2003), known as Celia Cruz, was a Cuban singer and one of the most popular Latin artists of the 20th century. Cruz rose to fame in Cuba during the 1950s as a singer of guarachas, earning the nickname "La Guarachera de Cuba".
Alicia Parla (1914 – October 6, 1998) was a Cuban rhumba dancer and hospital administrator who was called "the Queen of Rumba" by the press. Born into a strict middle-class Cuban family, she and her family moved to Miami when Cuba became politically turbulent in the 1920s.
By the late 1980s and early 1990s, Wemba's style was more readily identifiable even as it had become an amalgamation of rumba, soukous and ndombolo, Latin and rock, melded to a European-oriented pop style. [10] But still wanting to expand their musical horizons, and move in new musical directions, [10] Viva la Musica took on a dual-identity ...
Vincent 'Don Vito' Margera died early in the morning on Sunday, Nov. 15, his family told TMZ. %shareLinks-quote="The 59-year-old was best known as the uncle of Bam Margera, who starred in the ...
Banas said he began to dance at age five. "I would immediately run and stand in a doorway pretending it was a frame for a small stage. I then would jive, moving my body to and fro, trying to keep up with the beat of the music, knowing that when the music would crescendo I’d leap in the air defying gravity, only to land in a heap.
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
Defao was born as Lulendo Matumona [1] on 31 December 1958, in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo,. [3]Matumona moved to Inkisi in 1976, where he remained until 1981 when guitarist Félix Manuaku Waku came to recruit him to join his group, Grand Zaiko Wawa. [4]