Armando de Sequeira Romeu

Armando de Sequeira Romeu, is a Cuban musical director,[1] composer, arranger, violinist, drummer and bass player. In 1972 he co-founded[2] the Grammy Award group Irakere,[3] one of Cuba’s best-known Latin Jazz Bands,[4] together with Chucho Valdes, a Cuban pianist. His mother, Zenaida Romeu Gonzalez,[5] known as a pianist and a composer, performed for the Havana Symphony Orchestra[6] and worked at her father’s radio station CMBN.[7] His great uncle, Antonio Maria Romeu Marrero, was the most famous "Danzon" Music Composer, a style of music that represents the nation and the country of Cuba and later Mexico.[8] Radio music pioneer who founded CMBN, was the leader of the French charanga band. His uncle, Armando Romeu Jr.,[9][10] a Jazz musician and the nephew of one of Cuba’s early classical composers, was the bandleader who was asked by Victor de Correa[9][11] to assemble the house orchestra for the Tropicana Club.[12] In 1954, De Sequeira, joined his uncle’s orchestra as a drummer performing at the Tropicana Club and recorded with Nat King Cole En Español.

Awards

The Cuban post office awarded the Romeu family with a special stamp, with the Romeu Family name in it and a photograph of Antonio Maria Romeu on the piano to represent the country internationally.

References

  1. ↑ Liz Burg, Berklee College of Music, April 7, 2011, paragraph 7
  2. ↑ Andrew GilbertCorrespondent (2012-02-16). "Chucho Valdés and his Cuban sound - San Jose Mercury News". Mercurynews.com. Retrieved 2012-04-09.
  3. ↑ "Awards of Paquito D'Rivera". Paquitodrivera.com. 2005-11-10. Retrieved 2012-04-09.
  4. ↑ "All about Cuban Music". Cuba Musica. Retrieved 2012-04-09.
  5. ↑ http://www.ecured.cu/index.php/Zenaida_Romeu_González
  6. ↑ "National Symphonic Orchestra". Soycubano.com. Retrieved 2012-04-09.
  7. ↑ Guerra, Ad (2011-09-26). "Nota en la Nota: His grandfather, Armando Romeu Marrero was the Music Director for the band for the Marines for more than thirty years, (la Banda de Música de la Marina de Guerra de Cuba).". Cazadoresdelasombradelave-adguerra.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2012-04-09.
  8. ↑ "Publicació Emails rebuts". Ulysseek.com. Retrieved 2012-04-09.
  9. 1 2 Lowinger, Rosa and Fox, Ofelia Tropicana Nights Published by Harcourt Inc. 2005, pages 162-164
  10. ↑ Orovio, Helio Cuban Music from A to Z Tumi(Music)Ltd, Bath U.K. 2004 page 187
  11. ↑ Moruzzi, Peter Havana Before Castro Published by Gibbs Smith 2008 page 114
  12. ↑ Jean SteinPhotograph by William Eggleston. "All Havana Broke Loose: An Oral History of Tropicana | Culture". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 2012-04-09.

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