Mambo and a festival to honor Cuba’s greatest culturist

Dedicated to that great Cuban culturist and musician Damaso Perez Prado, on the occasion of his 107th birth anniversary, the Havana Mambo Festival occupies today and until December 16 the lives of many Cubans.

The third edition of the event, founded and presided over by Arnaldo Rodriguez, leader of the musical group Arnaldo y su Talisman, began the day before with the Mambo Route, which included in its trajectory the Areito Studios of the Empresa de Grabaciones y Ediciones Musicales (Egrem).

This space hosted the presentation of the book Pérez Prado ¡Qué rico el mambo! by Sergio Santana Archbold, which shows a journey through the life of the famous composer, known as the Mambo King.

Another essential stage was the Radio Progreso radio station, where managers and workers shared anecdotes associated with the genre and this remarkable figure, and also discussed the presence of mambo in the programming of the Emisora de la Familia Cubana (Cuban Family Radio Station), as it is popularly known.

The Mambo Route ended at Egrem’s headquarters, an appropriate venue to present the phonogram Habana Mambo Orquesta, which, under Rodríguez’s leadership, includes eight well-known songs of the genre.