Colección Diamante

Performer: Pérez Prado
Distributor: BMG (distributor)

Notes: An unnecessarily brisk collection of P�rez Prado's greatest hits, Colecci�n Diamante does include a bare few career highlights ("Mambo No. 5," "Patricia"), but there are many better compilations available, including Rhino's Mondo Mambo: The Best of Perez Prado. ~ John Bush

D�maso P�rez Prado, the original Mambo King, served time as an arranger and pianist in several Havana-based bands in the 1930s. By the '40s, the traditional Cuban danzon style was evolving into newer, African-inspired sounds like the cha-cha and the mambo. With an irresistible syncopated rhythm and sensual, brass-heavy melodies, mambo dovetailed nicely with the popular swing music of the day. Prado began to plant the mambo seeds farther away from home, and by the '50s, the mambo craze had taken hold in the U.S. While Prado was not the first musician to play this music, he wrote and/or recorded some of the biggest mambo hits of the era. Though the craze eventually faded, Prado performed and recorded until his death in 1989.

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