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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.
Mambo is a genre of Cuban dance music pioneered by the charanga Arcaño y sus Maravillas in the late 1930s and later popularized in the big band style by Pérez Prado.It originated as a syncopated form of the danzón, known as danzón-mambo, with a final, improvised section, which incorporated the guajeos typical of son cubano (also known as montunos).
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"Papa Loves Mambo" is a popular song written by Al Hoffman, Dick Manning, and Bix Reichner and released in 1954. [ 1 ] The best-known version was recorded by Perry Como with Mitchell Ayres 's orchestra in New York City on August 31, 1954.
The danzón-mambo (also known as danzón de nuevo ritmo) is a subgenre of Cuban dance music that marked the transition from the classical danzόn to the mambo and the cha-cha-chá. It was also in the context of the danzón-mambo that the Cuban dance band format called charanga reached its present form.
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"Mambo Italiano" became popular in Italy when Carla Boni scored a major hit with her version in 1956. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Also in 1956, [ 14 ] Renato Carosone , a singer and band leader from Naples, recorded a successful version that weaves in several fragments of Neapolitan song , of which he was a leading exponent.
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 .