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Arsenio Rodríguez

Arsenio Rodríguez
Arsenio Rodríguez, Cuban-American tres player, composer, and bandleader (d. 1970)

Arsenio Rodríguez was a Cuban musician, composer and bandleader. He played the tres, as well as the tumbadora, and he specialized in son, rumba and other Afro-Cuban music styles. In the 1940s and 1950s Rodríguez established the conjunto format and contributed to the development of the son montuno, the basic template of modern-day salsa. He claimed to be the true creator of the mambo and was an important as well as a prolific composer who wrote nearly two hundred songs.

31 August 1911

Born on the same birth date (31 August 1911): Edward Brongersma

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