Pérez Prado, Cuban-Mexican singer-songwriter, pianist, and bandleader (died 1989)

Pérez Prado

Cuban bandleader and mambo musician (1916–1989)

Dámaso Pérez Prado was a Cuban bandleader, pianist, composer and arranger who popularized the mambo in the 1950s. His big band adaptation of the danzón-mambo proved to be a worldwide success with hits such as "Mambo No. 5", earning him the nickname "The King of the Mambo". In…