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| name = Benny Moré
| image = Benny Moré.jpg
| caption =
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| birth_name = Bartolomé Maximiliano Moré Gutiérrez
| alias = Beny Moré<br/>"El Bárbaro del Ritmo"<br/>"El Sonero Mayor"
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1919|8|24}}
| birth_place = [[Santa Isabel de las Lajas]], Cuba
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1963|2|19|1919|8|24}}
| death_place = [[Havana]], Cuba
| instrument = Vocals, guitar
| genre = [[Son montuno]], [[Mambo (music)|mambo]], [[guaracha]], [[bolero]], [[afro (genre)|afro]]
| occupation = Musician, bandleader
| years_active = 1944–1963
| label = [[RCA Victor]], [[Discuba]]
| associated_acts = [[Conjunto Matamoros]], Mariano Mercerón, [[Bebo Valdés]], Ernesto Duarte Brito, [[Orquesta Aragón]], Banda Gigante
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'''Bartolomé Maximiliano Moré Gutiérrez''' (24 August 1919 – 19 February 1963),<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|last=Whitefield|first=Mimi|date=2016-11-17|title=Benny Moré is still 'The Master of Rhythm' in his Cuban hometown|work=Miami Herald|url=https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/cuba/article115268928.html|access-date=2020-05-07}}</ref> better known as '''Benny Moré''' (also spelled '''Beny Moré'''), was a Cuban singer, bandleader and songwriter. Due to his fluid [[tenor]] voice and his great expressivity, he was known variously as "El Bárbaro del Ritmo"<ref name=":0" /> and "El Sonero Mayor".<ref>{{cite book | last=Radanovich | first=John | title=Wildman of Rhythm: The Life and Music of Benny Moré | date=2009 | publisher=[[University Press of Florida]] | isbn=9780813033938 | url=https://archive.org/details/wildmanofrhythml00rada }}</ref> Moré was a master of the {{lang|es|soneo}} – the art of vocal improvisation in [[son cubano]] – and many of his tunes developed this way.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Horn |first1=David |last2=Laing |first2=Dave |title=Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Part 2 Locations: Volumes III to VII |date=2005 |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |isbn=9780826474360 |page=90 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jTHaAAAAMAAJ |language=en}}</ref> He often took part in ''controversias'' (vocal duels) with other singers, including [[Cheo Marquetti]]<ref>{{cite book |title=Revista de revistas |date=1994 |publisher=Empresa Editora Revista de Revistas S.A |page=67 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U8EyAAAAYAAJ |language=es}}</ref> and [[Joseíto Fernández]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gómez Sotolongo |first1=Antonio |title=Al son son y al vino vino |date=2019 |publisher=Lulu |isbn=9780359403295 |page=133 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WNCJDwAAQBAJ |language=es}}</ref> Apart from ''son cubano'', Moré was a popular singer of [[guaracha]]s, [[Cha-cha-chá (music)|cha cha cha]], [[Mambo (music)|mambo]], [[son montuno]], and [[bolero]]s.<ref name=":0" />
Moré started his career with the [[Conjunto Matamoros|Trío Matamoros]] in the 1940s and after a tour in Mexico he decided to stay in the country. Both Moré and dancer [[Ninón Sevilla]] made their cinematic debut in 1946's ''Carita de cielo'', but Moré focused on his music career. In the late 1940s, he sang guaracha-mambos with [[Pérez Prado]], achieving great success. Moré returned to Cuba in 1952 and worked with [[Bebo Valdés]] and [[Ernesto Duarte Brito|Ernesto Duarte]]. In 1953, he formed the Banda Gigante, which became one of the leading Cuban big bands of the 1950s. He suffered from [[alcoholism]] and died of [[cirrhosis|liver cirrhosis]] in 1963 at the age of 43.<ref name=":0" />
==Early life==
[[File:Cuba Cienfuegos BennyMore (www.pixinn.net).jpg|thumb|right|Bronze statue of Moré in [[Cienfuegos]]' Prado street]]
The eldest of 18 children, Moré was born in the town of [[Santa Isabel de las Lajas]] in the former [[Santa Clara Province]], current [[Cienfuegos Province]], in central Cuba. His parents were Virginia Moré and Silvestre Gutiérrez.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=▷ Biografía de Benny Moré - ¿QUIÉN FUE?|url=https://biografiadee.com/biografia-de-benny-more/|date=2019-07-18|website=Biografiadee.com|language=es|access-date=2020-05-07}}</ref> His maternal great-great grandfather, Ta Ramón Gundo Paredes (later changed to Ta Ramón Gundo Moré),<ref name=":1" /> was said to be the son of the king of a tribe in the [[Kingdom of Kongo]] who was captured by slave traders and sold to a Cuban plantation owner named Ramon Paredes and subsequently to another Cuban landowner named Conde Moré<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=Biografia de Beny More|url=http://www.americasalsa.com/biografias/beny_more.html|website=www.americasalsa.com|access-date=2020-05-07}}</ref> (Paredes/Moré was later liberated and died as a freeman at age 94.)
As a child, Moré learned to play the guitar, making his first instrument at the age of six, according to his mother, from "a stick and a sardine can that served as the sound box".<ref name=":0" /> In 1936, at the age of 17, he left Las Lajas for [[Havana]], where he made a living by selling bruised and damaged fruits and vegetables and medicinal herbs. Six months later, he returned to Las Lajas and went to cut cane for a season with his brother Teodoro. With the money he earned and Teodoro's savings, Moré bought his first guitar in [[Morón, Cuba|Morón]], Cuba.<ref>Radanovich (2009), p. 19.</ref><ref name=":2" />
==Career==
In 1940, Moré returned to Havana. He lived from hand-to-mouth, playing in bars and cafés, passing the hat. His first breakthrough was winning a radio competition. In the early 1940s, radio station [[CMQ (Cuba)|CMQ]] had a program called ''The Supreme Court of Art'', in which a wide variety of artists participated. Winners were given contracts by unscrupulous businessmen, who exploited them. The less fortunate were treated to the humiliation of a loud church bell that brutally terminated their performances.<ref name=Ra28>Radanovich (2009), p. 28.</ref>
In his first appearance, Moré had scarcely begun to sing when the bell sounded, and he was booed off the stage.<ref name=Ra28/> He later competed again and won first prize. He then landed his first stable job with the Conjunto Cauto led by Mozo Borgellá.<ref name=Ra28/> He also sang with success on the radio station CMZ with Lázaro Cordero's Sexteto Fígaro. In 1941, Moré made his debut on [[Radio Mil Diez]], performing with the Conjunto Cauto, directed by Mozo Borgella.<ref name=":2" />
===Conjunto Matamoros and Mexico===
Ciro Rodríguez, of the famed [[Trío Matamoros]], heard Moré singing in the bar El Temple and was greatly impressed. In 1942, Conjunto Matamoros was engaged for a live performance for Radio Mil Diez. However, Miguel Matamoros was indisposed and asked Mozo Borgellá to lend him a singer. Borgellá sent Moré, who worked for several years with Conjunto Matamoros, making a number of recordings.<ref>Radanovich (2009), p. 31.</ref>
Moré replaced Miguel Matamoros as lead singer, and the latter dedicated himself to leading the band. On 21 June 1945, Moré went with Conjunto Matamoros to [[Mexico]], where he performed in two of the most famous cabarets: the Montparnasse and the Río Rosa. He made several recordings. Conjunto Matamoros returned to Havana, but Moré remained in Mexico. Rafael Cueto said to him: "Fine, but just remember that they call burros 'bartolo' here. Stay, but change your name." "Ok," replied Moré, "from now on my name is Beny, Beny Moré."<ref name=":2" /> Moré was left penniless and got permission to work from the performing artists' union. With this, he was able to get a job at the Río Rosa, where he formed the Dueto Fantasma (also known as Dueto Antillano) with Lalo Montané, in December 1945.<ref>Radanovich (2009), p. 45.</ref>
In [[Mexico City]], Moré made recordings for [[RCA Victor]], with [[Perez Prado]]: "[[Anabacoa]]", "Bonito y Sabroso", "Mucho Corazón", "Pachito Eché", "[[La Múcura]]", "Rabo y Oreja" and other numbers. He recorded "Dolor Karabalí", which Moré considered his best composition recorded with [[Pérez Prado]], one he never wanted to re-record, also his recording in Mexico with Rafael de Paz Orchestra of "Bonito y Sabroso" was never recorded again by Moré, even though his famous composition of the months prior to leaving Mexico became in time the theme of his big band in Cuba. Moré was always reluctant to record newer versions of his hit songs, as he thought "you don't fix what's not broken". Moré and Prado recorded 28 songs in total, mostly mambos.<ref name="Diaz">{{cite web | last=Díaz Ayala | first=Cristóbal | title=Benny Moré | url=http://latinpop.fiu.edu/SECCION04Mpt2.pdf | website=Encyclopedic Discography of Cuban Music 1925-1960 | publisher=[[Florida International University]] | date=May 2018}}</ref>
Moré also recorded with the orchestra of Mariano Mercerón: "Me Voy Pa'l Pueblo", "Desdichado", "Mucho Corazon", "Ensalada de Mambo", "Rumberos de Ayer" and "Encantado de la Vida" with "El Conjunto de Lalo Montane", a Colombian singer and composer, with which he recorded in Mexico, conforming a famous duo called "The Phantom Duet" or "Dueto Fantasma". He also recorded with Mexican orchestras, specially with the one directed by Rafael de Paz; they recorded "Yiri Yiri Bon", "La Culebra", "Mata Siguaraya", "[[Solamente Una Vez]]" and "Bonito y Sabroso", a mambo song where he praises the dancing skills of the Mexicans and claims that [[Mexico City]] and [[La Habana]] are sister cities. In this time Benny also recorded with the orchestra of Jesús "Chucho" Rodríguez. El "Chucho" was so impressed with Benny's musical ability that he referred to him as "El Bárbaro del Ritmo".
Moré and other performers such as [[Amalia Aguilar]] appeared as themselves in the Ernesto Cortázar-directed 1949 film ''En cada puerto un amor'', a film in the musical comedy and drama genres.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0146673/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast "En cada puerto un amor"], IMDb.</ref><ref>Rafael Lim, "Beny Moré in Film", ''CUBANOW'', Susana Hurlich, translator.</ref>
===Return to Cuba===
[[File:Beny Moré y su Orquesta Gigante.jpg|thumb|right|Moré and his "Orquesta Gigante" at [[Radio Progreso]] in the late 1950s]]
During the spring of 1952, around April, Moré returned to Cuba. He was a star in Mexico, the Dominican Republic, [[Panama]], [[Colombia]], [[Brazil]] and [[Puerto Rico]], but virtually unknown on the island. His first Cuban recordings were with Mariano Mercerón & his Orchestra, including songs such as "Fiesta de Tambores", "Salomón", "La Chola", among others. Moré began alternating between performances in the Cadena Oriental radio station and trips to Havana to record at the RCA studios in CMQ Radiocentro.
In Havana, Moré worked for the radio station [[RHC-Cadena Azul]], with the orchestra of Bebo Valdés, who introduced the new style called "batanga". The presenter of the show, Ibraín Urbino, presented him as ''El Bárbaro del Ritmo.'' They offered him the opportunity to record with [[Sonora Matancera]], but he declined the offer because he did not care for the sound of the group. After the batanga fell out of fashion, Moré was contracted by [[Radio Progreso]] with the orchestra of Ernesto Duarte Brito. In addition to the radio, he also performed at dances, cabarets and parties. When he sang in Havana's [[Great Theatre of Havana|Centro Gallego]], people filled the sidewalks and the gardens of the Capitolio to hear him. In 1952, Moré made a recording with the [[Orquesta Aragón]] with whom he would perform in dance halls. Orquesta Aragón was from [[Cienfuegos]] and was having trouble breaking into Havana and Moré helped them in this way.
===Banda Gigante===
[[File:Pacho Alonso, La Lupe & Benny Moré.jpg|thumb|right|Moré (right) with [[La Lupe]] and [[Pacho Alonso]], {{Circa|1959}}. All three were signed to the [[RCA Victor]] subsidiary [[Discuba]].]]
Also in 1952, Moré was told that Duarte Brito was not taking Moré to certain Saturday engagements because Moré was black.<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=Benny More - Biografía, historia y legado musical {{!}} BuenaMusica.com|url=https://www.buenamusica.com/benny-more/biografia|website=www.buenamusica.com|language=es|access-date=2020-05-07}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Benny Moré "El Bárbaro del Ritmo", "El Príncipe del Mambo"|url=http://lasalsabrava.com/benny-more-el-barbaro-del-ritmo/|date=2014-04-02|website=La Salsa Brava|language=es-ES|access-date=2020-05-07}}</ref> Moré was furious and brought the issue up to the RCA Records agent in Cuba (Maurico Conde). When nothing was done, Moré decided to form his own orchestra.<ref name=":2" /> The first performance of Moré's Banda Gigante was in the CMQ radio program ''Cascabeles Candado'' on August 3, 1953.<ref>{{cite book | last=Martínez Rodríguez | first=Raúl | title=Benny Moré | date=1993 | publisher=Editorial Letras Cubanas | isbn=9591000855 | page=[https://archive.org/details/bennymore00mart/page/18 18] | language=es | url=https://archive.org/details/bennymore00mart/page/18 }}</ref> The original lineup featured Ignacio Cabrera "Cabrerita" (piano); Miguel Franca, Santiago Peñalver, Roberto Barreto, Celso Gómez and Virgilio Vixama (saxophones); [[Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros]], Rigoberto "Rabanito" Jiménez and Domingo Corbacho (trumpets); José Miguel Gómez (trombone); Alberto Limonta (double bass); Tabaquito (congas); Clemente Piquero "Chicho" (bongos); Rolando Laserie (drums), and Fernando Álvarez and Enrique Benitez (vocals).<ref name=Roy>{{cite book | last1=Roy | first1=Maya | title=Músicas cubanas | date=2003 | publisher=Akal | page=152 | isbn=9788446012344 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ylUYYWXumY8C | language=es}}</ref> The Banda was generally sixteen musicians, comparable in size with the orchestras of [[Xavier Cugat]] and [[Pérez Prado]]. Although Moré could not read music, he arranged material by singing parts to his arrangers, which included pianists Cabrerita and [[Peruchín]], as well as trombonist [[Generoso Jiménez]].<ref name=Roy/>
Between the years 1953 and 1955, the Banda Gigante became immensely popular. Their first recording session took place in November 1953, which included the hit "Manzanillo". Other hits followed, including self-penned songs such as "[[Mi saoco]]", "Santa Isabel de las Lajas", "Cienfuegos" and "Dolor y perdón".<ref name="Diaz" /> In 1956 and 1957, they toured Dominican Republic, [[Venezuela]], [[Jamaica]], [[Haiti]], [[Colombia]], Panama, Mexico, [[Puerto Rico]] and the [[United States]], where the group played at the [[Academy Awards]]. In Havana, they played at a multitude of dance halls and cabarets such as the [[Tropicana Club]], La Campana, El Sierra, Night and Day, Alí Bar Club, and the [[Hotel Habana Riviera]] and [[Hotel Tryp Habana Libre]].<ref>Martínez Rodríguez (1993), p. 22.</ref>
Moré was offered a tour of [[Europe]], [[France]] in particular, but he rejected it because of his [[fear of flying]]; he had by that time been in three airplane accidents.
===Final years===
In the aftermath of the [[Cuban Revolution]], many of Cuba's top musical figures emigrated, but Moré stayed in Cuba, among, as he said, "mi gente" (my people).
==Death==
Moré suffered from [[alcoholism]] and died of [[cirrhosis]] of the [[liver]] in 1963 at the age of 43. His funeral was attended by tens of thousands of people.<ref name=":0" />
==Awards and recognition==
[[File:5.12.11BennyMoréLectureByLuigiNovi1.jpg|thumb|right|A 12 May 2011 multimedia lecture on Moré in the heavily [[Cuban-American]] community of [[Union City, New Jersey]]]]
Moré has been cited as the greatest singer in Cuban music history by critics and musicians.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Steward |first1=Sue |title=Musica!: The Rhythm of Latin America - Salsa, Rumba, Merengue, and More |date=1999 |publisher=Chronicle Books |isbn=9780811825665 |page=32 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lz3QhnOaC14C |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Gerard |first1=Charley |title=Music from Cuba: Mongo Santamaría, Chocolate Armenteros, and Cuban Musicians in the United States |date=2001 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=9780275966829 |page=107 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cZH22u6_p50C |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Castañeda |first1=Angela Nicole |title="Veracruz También Es Caribe": Power, Politics, and Performance in the Making of an Afro-Caribbean Identity |date=2004 |publisher=Indiana University |page=92 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QEIeAQAAMAAJ |language=en}}</ref> In 1999, Moré was posthumously inducted into the [[International Latin Music Hall of Fame]] and the [[Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame]] in 2016.<ref>{{cite news|title=Draco Rosa y Miguel Luna al salón de la fama de los compositores latinos|url=http://www.orlandosentinel.com/elsentinel/os-es-draco-rosa-miguel-luna-salon-fama-compositores-latinos-20161014-story.html|access-date=December 22, 2017|work=Orlando Sentinel|date=October 15, 2016|language=es}}</ref> The [[Benny Moré Memorial Award]] was named in honor of the artist and was given to artists who were influential in Latin music.<ref>{{cite journal | last=de Fontenay | first=Sounni | title=International Latin Music Hall of Fame | journal=Latin American Rhythm Magazine | url=http://laritmo.com/mag/index.php3?id=253 | date=7 December 1998 | access-date=5 November 2015 | archive-date=18 October 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141018225223/http://laritmo.com/mag/index.php3?id=253 | url-status=dead }}</ref> On 11 June 2006, Moré was honored with a star on the Walk of Fame at [[Celia Cruz]] Park in [[Union City, New Jersey]], a heavily Cuban-American community<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.wpr.org/culture-cuban-choral-and-instrumental-music | title=The Culture Of Cuban Choral and Instrumental Music | first=Jonathan | last=Overby | work=[[Wisconsin Public Radio]] | date=November 29, 2014}}</ref><ref name=GoogleNews>{{cite news | last=Bartlett | first=Kay | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1129&dat=19770628&id=4kwNAAAAIBAJ&pg=4464,3136176 | title=Little Havana on the Hudson | work=[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]] | date=28 June 1977}}</ref><ref name=HavanaOnHudson>{{cite news | last=Hope | first=Bradley | url=http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=574&topicId=100020669&docId=l:413337263&start=1 | title=Havana on Hudson Reverberates After Castro's Operation | work=[[The New York Sun]] | date=2 August 2006 | quote=Several of the group's leaders sat in chairs around the union hall on a quiet street in Union City, N.J., a town minutes away from Manhattan that was once known as "Havana on the Hudson" | access-date=16 May 2011 | archive-date=24 February 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224065539/http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=574&topicId=100020669&docId=l:413337263&start=1 | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>Grenier, Guillermo J. [https://books.google.com/books?id=3XBcqhL_pKEC ''Miami now!: immigration, ethnicity, and social change'']; archived at [[Google Books]].</ref> that has hosted musical presentations and multimedia lectures on the singer.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.cubaencuentro.com/cartelera/agenda/con-su-permiso-benny-more-262176 | title=Con su permiso, Benny Moré | work=Cuba En Cuento | date=12 May 2011}}</ref>
==Legacy==
Beny Moré appears as a character in the novel ''[[The Island of Eternal Love]] '' ([[Penguin Random House]], 2008), by [[Cuban Americans|Cuban-American]] writer [[Daína Chaviano]], who also concludes her novel with a chapter titled "[[Today as yesterday|Today as Yesterday]]", one of the best interpretations of this singer. Moré is also remembered in the 2006 film ''[[El Benny]]'', which is based on parts of his life, and includes new versions of his songs performed by musicians including [[Chucho Valdés]], Juan Formell and [[Orishas (band)|Orishas]].
Numerous [[tribute album]]s consisting of [[cover version]]s of Moré's songs have been released by artists such as [[Tito Puente]] (1978, 1979 and 1985), Charanga de la 4 (1981), Bobby Carcassés (1985), Tropicana All-Stars (2004) and [[Jon Secada]] (2017).<ref>{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/latin/7676257/jon-secada-como-fue-beny-more-premiere | title=Listen to Jon Secada's New Single 'Como Fue,' Feat. Beny More: Exclusive Premiere | first=Griselda | last=Flores | magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] | date=February 1, 2017}}</ref>
==Selected discography==
Records from 1963 onwards include at least one or more unreleased songs.
* ''El Inigualable'' (Discuba, 1957)
* ''The Most From Beny Moré'' (Victor, 1958; recorded 1955–1957)
* ''Así es...'' (Victor, 1958)
* ''Pare... que llegó el bárbaro'' (Victor/Discuba, 1958)
* ''Así es... Beny'' (Discuba, 1958)
* ''La Época de Oro'' (Victor, 1958)
* ''Magia antillana'' (Victor, 1960; recorded 1949–1953)
* ''El Barbaro del Ritmo'' with [[Perez Prado]] and [[Rafael De Paz]] (Victor, 1962; recorded 1949–1951)
* ''Homenaje póstumo'' (Discuba, 1963; recorded 1960)
* ''Benny More Y Su Orquesta...'' (Palma, 1964)
* ''Recordando'' (RCA Camden, 1964)
* ''Lo Mejor de Beny Moré'' (RCA, 1965)
* ''La Época De Oro Vol.II'' (RCA, 1969)
* ''y Su Salsa de Siempre'' (RCA, 1978)
* ''Grandes Exitos'' (Darcole Music, 1979)
* ''Ensalada De Mambo'' (RCA, 1980)
* ''Lo Último Que Cantó Beny More'' (Integra, 1980)
* ''Lo Desconocido De Beny More'' (RCA, 1982)
* ''Cubanísimo-1'' with [[Trío Matamoros]] and [[Ernesto Duarte]]'s orchestra (Producciones Preludio, 1983; recorded 1945–1947)
* ''Leyendas Musicales'' (Producciones Preludio, 1986)
* ''Beny Moré Canta Con...'' (RCA, 1988)
* ''Conjunto Matamoros With Beny Moré'' with [[Conjunto Matamoros]] (Tumbao Cuban Classics, 1992; recorded 1945–1947)
* ''El Barbaro del Ritmo'' with [[Perez Prado]] (Tumbao Cuban Classics, 1992; recorded 1949–1951)
* ''Benny Moré En Vivo'' (Discmedi, 1995; recorded 1957)
* ''Benny More Canta Boleros'' (Estudios EGREM, 2006; recorded 1953–1960)
==References==
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==External links==
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* {{IMDb name|0608200}}
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1VE56pc3Rk Video of Benny Moré and his Banda Gigante]
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{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Beny Moré
| image = Benny Moré.jpg
| caption =
| image_size =
| birth_name = Bartolomé Maximiliano Moré Gutiérrez
| alias = Beny Moré<br/>"El Bárbaro del Ritmo"<br/>"El Sonero Mayor"
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1919|8|24}}
| birth_place = [[Santa Isabel de las Lajas]], Cuba
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1963|2|19|1919|8|24}}
| death_place = [[Havana]], Cuba
| instrument = Vocals, guitar
| genre = [[Son montuno]], [[Mambo (music)|mambo]], [[guaracha]], [[bolero]], [[afro (genre)|afro]]
| occupation = Musician, bandleader
| years_active = 1944–1963
| label = [[RCA Victor]], [[Discuba]]
| associated_acts = [[Conjunto Matamoros]], Mariano Mercerón, [[Bebo Valdés]], Ernesto Duarte Brito, [[Orquesta Aragón]], Banda Gigante
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'''Bartolomé Maximiliano Moré Gutiérrez''' (24 August 1919 – 19 February 1963),<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|last=Whitefield|first=Mimi|date=2016-11-17|title=Beny Moré is still 'The Master of Rhythm' in his Cuban hometown|work=Miami Herald|url=https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/cuba/article115268928.html|access-date=2020-05-07}}</ref> better known as '''Beny Moré''' (also spelled '''Beny Moré'''), was a Cuban singer, bandleader and songwriter. Due to his fluid [[tenor]] voice and his great expressivity, he was known variously as "El Bárbaro del Ritmo"<ref name=":0" /> and "El Sonero Mayor".<ref>{{cite book | last=Radanovich | first=John | title=Wildman of Rhythm: The Life and Music of Beny Moré | date=2009 | publisher=[[University Press of Florida]] | isbn=9780813033938 | url=https://archive.org/details/wildmanofrhythml00rada }}</ref> Moré was a master of the {{lang|es|soneo}} – the art of vocal improvisation in [[son cubano]] – and many of his tunes developed this way.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Horn |first1=David |last2=Laing |first2=Dave |title=Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Part 2 Locations: Volumes III to VII |date=2005 |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |isbn=9780826474360 |page=90 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jTHaAAAAMAAJ |language=en}}</ref> He often took part in ''controversias'' (vocal duels) with other singers, including [[Cheo Marquetti]]<ref>{{cite book |title=Revista de revistas |date=1994 |publisher=Empresa Editora Revista de Revistas S.A |page=67 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U8EyAAAAYAAJ |language=es}}</ref> and [[Joseíto Fernández]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gómez Sotolongo |first1=Antonio |title=Al son son y al vino vino |date=2019 |publisher=Lulu |isbn=9780359403295 |page=133 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WNCJDwAAQBAJ |language=es}}</ref> Apart from ''son cubano'', Moré was a popular singer of [[guaracha]]s, [[Cha-cha-chá (music)|cha cha cha]], [[Mambo (music)|mambo]], [[son montuno]], and [[bolero]]s.<ref name=":0" />
Moré started his career with the [[Conjunto Matamoros|Trío Matamoros]] in the 1940s and after a tour in Mexico he decided to stay in the country. Both Moré and dancer [[Ninón Sevilla]] made their cinematic debut in 1946's ''Carita de cielo'', but Moré focused on his music career. In the late 1940s, he sang guaracha-mambos with [[Pérez Prado]], achieving great success. Moré returned to Cuba in 1952 and worked with [[Bebo Valdés]] and [[Ernesto Duarte Brito|Ernesto Duarte]]. In 1953, he formed the Banda Gigante, which became one of the leading Cuban big bands of the 1950s. He suffered from [[alcoholism]] and died of [[cirrhosis|liver cirrhosis]] in 1963 at the age of 43.<ref name=":0" />
==Early life==
[[File:Cuba Cienfuegos BenyMore (www.pixinn.net).jpg|thumb|right|Bronze statue of Moré in [[Cienfuegos]]' Prado street]]
The eldest of 18 children, Moré was born in the town of [[Santa Isabel de las Lajas]] in the former [[Santa Clara Province]], current [[Cienfuegos Province]], in central Cuba. His parents were Virginia Moré and Silvestre Gutiérrez.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=▷ Biografía de Beny Moré - ¿QUIÉN FUE?|url=https://biografiadee.com/biografia-de-beny-more/|date=2019-07-18|website=Biografiadee.com|language=es|access-date=2020-05-07}}</ref> His maternal great-great grandfather, Ta Ramón Gundo Paredes (later changed to Ta Ramón Gundo Moré),<ref name=":1" /> was said to be the son of the king of a tribe in the [[Kingdom of Kongo]] who was captured by slave traders and sold to a Cuban plantation owner named Ramon Paredes and subsequently to another Cuban landowner named Conde Moré<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=Biografia de Beny More|url=http://www.americasalsa.com/biografias/beny_more.html|website=www.americasalsa.com|access-date=2020-05-07}}</ref> (Paredes/Moré was later liberated and died as a freeman at age 94.)
As a child, Moré learned to play the guitar, making his first instrument at the age of six, according to his mother, from "a stick and a sardine can that served as the sound box".<ref name=":0" /> In 1936, at the age of 17, he left Las Lajas for [[Havana]], where he made a living by selling bruised and damaged fruits and vegetables and medicinal herbs. Six months later, he returned to Las Lajas and went to cut cane for a season with his brother Teodoro. With the money he earned and Teodoro's savings, Moré bought his first guitar in [[Morón, Cuba|Morón]], Cuba.<ref>Radanovich (2009), p. 19.</ref><ref name=":2" />
==Career==
In 1940, Moré returned to Havana. He lived from hand-to-mouth, playing in bars and cafés, passing the hat. His first breakthrough was winning a radio competition. In the early 1940s, radio station [[CMQ (Cuba)|CMQ]] had a program called ''The Supreme Court of Art'', in which a wide variety of artists participated. Winners were given contracts by unscrupulous businessmen, who exploited them. The less fortunate were treated to the humiliation of a loud church bell that brutally terminated their performances.<ref name=Ra28>Radanovich (2009), p. 28.</ref>
In his first appearance, Moré had scarcely begun to sing when the bell sounded, and he was booed off the stage.<ref name=Ra28/> He later competed again and won first prize. He then landed his first stable job with the Conjunto Cauto led by Mozo Borgellá.<ref name=Ra28/> He also sang with success on the radio station CMZ with Lázaro Cordero's Sexteto Fígaro. In 1941, Moré made his debut on [[Radio Mil Diez]], performing with the Conjunto Cauto, directed by Mozo Borgella.<ref name=":2" />
===Conjunto Matamoros and Mexico===
Ciro Rodríguez, of the famed [[Trío Matamoros]], heard Moré singing in the bar El Temple and was greatly impressed. In 1942, Conjunto Matamoros was engaged for a live performance for Radio Mil Diez. However, Miguel Matamoros was indisposed and asked Mozo Borgellá to lend him a singer. Borgellá sent Moré, who worked for several years with Conjunto Matamoros, making a number of recordings.<ref>Radanovich (2009), p. 31.</ref>
Moré replaced Miguel Matamoros as lead singer, and the latter dedicated himself to leading the band. On 21 June 1945, Moré went with Conjunto Matamoros to [[Mexico]], where he performed in two of the most famous cabarets: the Montparnasse and the Río Rosa. He made several recordings. Conjunto Matamoros returned to Havana, but Moré remained in Mexico. Rafael Cueto said to him: "Fine, but just remember that they call burros 'bartolo' here. Stay, but change your name." "Ok," replied Moré, "from now on my name is Beny, Beny Moré."<ref name=":2" /> Moré was left penniless and got permission to work from the performing artists' union. With this, he was able to get a job at the Río Rosa, where he formed the Dueto Fantasma (also known as Dueto Antillano) with Lalo Montané, in December 1945.<ref>Radanovich (2009), p. 45.</ref>
In [[Mexico City]], Moré made recordings for [[RCA Victor]], with [[Perez Prado]]: "[[Anabacoa]]", "Bonito y Sabroso", "Mucho Corazón", "Pachito Eché", "[[La Múcura]]", "Rabo y Oreja" and other numbers. He recorded "Dolor Karabalí", which Moré considered his best composition recorded with [[Pérez Prado]], one he never wanted to re-record, also his recording in Mexico with Rafael de Paz Orchestra of "Bonito y Sabroso" was never recorded again by Moré, even though his famous composition of the months prior to leaving Mexico became in time the theme of his big band in Cuba. Moré was always reluctant to record newer versions of his hit songs, as he thought "you don't fix what's not broken". Moré and Prado recorded 28 songs in total, mostly mambos.<ref name="Diaz">{{cite web | last=Díaz Ayala | first=Cristóbal | title=Beny Moré | url=http://latinpop.fiu.edu/SECCION04Mpt2.pdf | website=Encyclopedic Discography of Cuban Music 1925-1960 | publisher=[[Florida International University]] | date=May 2018}}</ref>
Moré also recorded with the orchestra of Mariano Mercerón: "Me Voy Pa'l Pueblo", "Desdichado", "Mucho Corazon", "Ensalada de Mambo", "Rumberos de Ayer" and "Encantado de la Vida" with "El Conjunto de Lalo Montane", a Colombian singer and composer, with which he recorded in Mexico, conforming a famous duo called "The Phantom Duet" or "Dueto Fantasma". He also recorded with Mexican orchestras, specially with the one directed by Rafael de Paz; they recorded "Yiri Yiri Bon", "La Culebra", "Mata Siguaraya", "[[Solamente Una Vez]]" and "Bonito y Sabroso", a mambo song where he praises the dancing skills of the Mexicans and claims that [[Mexico City]] and [[La Habana]] are sister cities. In this time Beny also recorded with the orchestra of Jesús "Chucho" Rodríguez. El "Chucho" was so impressed with Beny's musical ability that he referred to him as "El Bárbaro del Ritmo".
Moré and other performers such as [[Amalia Aguilar]] appeared as themselves in the Ernesto Cortázar-directed 1949 film ''En cada puerto un amor'', a film in the musical comedy and drama genres.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0146673/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast "En cada puerto un amor"], IMDb.</ref><ref>Rafael Lim, "Beny Moré in Film", ''CUBANOW'', Susana Hurlich, translator.</ref>
===Return to Cuba===
[[File:Beny Moré y su Orquesta Gigante.jpg|thumb|right|Moré and his "Orquesta Gigante" at [[Radio Progreso]] in the late 1950s]]
During the spring of 1952, around April, Moré returned to Cuba. He was a star in Mexico, the Dominican Republic, [[Panama]], [[Colombia]], [[Brazil]] and [[Puerto Rico]], but virtually unknown on the island. His first Cuban recordings were with Mariano Mercerón & his Orchestra, including songs such as "Fiesta de Tambores", "Salomón", "La Chola", among others. Moré began alternating between performances in the Cadena Oriental radio station and trips to Havana to record at the RCA studios in CMQ Radiocentro.
In Havana, Moré worked for the radio station [[RHC-Cadena Azul]], with the orchestra of Bebo Valdés, who introduced the new style called "batanga". The presenter of the show, Ibraín Urbino, presented him as ''El Bárbaro del Ritmo.'' They offered him the opportunity to record with [[Sonora Matancera]], but he declined the offer because he did not care for the sound of the group. After the batanga fell out of fashion, Moré was contracted by [[Radio Progreso]] with the orchestra of Ernesto Duarte Brito. In addition to the radio, he also performed at dances, cabarets and parties. When he sang in Havana's [[Great Theatre of Havana|Centro Gallego]], people filled the sidewalks and the gardens of the Capitolio to hear him. In 1952, Moré made a recording with the [[Orquesta Aragón]] with whom he would perform in dance halls. Orquesta Aragón was from [[Cienfuegos]] and was having trouble breaking into Havana and Moré helped them in this way.
===Banda Gigante===
[[File:Pacho Alonso, La Lupe & Beny Moré.jpg|thumb|right|Moré (right) with [[La Lupe]] and [[Pacho Alonso]], {{Circa|1959}}. All three were signed to the [[RCA Victor]] subsidiary [[Discuba]].]]
Also in 1952, Moré was told that Duarte Brito was not taking Moré to certain Saturday engagements because Moré was black.<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=Beny More - Biografía, historia y legado musical {{!}} BuenaMusica.com|url=https://www.buenamusica.com/bnny-more/biografia|website=www.buenamusica.com|language=es|access-date=2020-05-07}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Beny Moré "El Bárbaro del Ritmo", "El Príncipe del Mambo"|url=http://lasalsabrava.com/beny-more-el-barbaro-del-ritmo/|date=2014-04-02|website=La Salsa Brava|language=es-ES|access-date=2020-05-07}}</ref> Moré was furious and brought the issue up to the RCA Records agent in Cuba (Maurico Conde). When nothing was done, Moré decided to form his own orchestra.<ref name=":2" /> The first performance of Moré's Banda Gigante was in the CMQ radio program ''Cascabeles Candado'' on August 3, 1953.<ref>{{cite book | last=Martínez Rodríguez | first=Raúl | title=Beny Moré | date=1993 | publisher=Editorial Letras Cubanas | isbn=9591000855 | page=[https://archive.org/details/benymore00mart/page/18 18] | language=es | url=https://archive.org/details/benymore00mart/page/18 }}</ref> The original lineup featured Ignacio Cabrera "Cabrerita" (piano); Miguel Franca, Santiago Peñalver, Roberto Barreto, Celso Gómez and Virgilio Vixama (saxophones); [[Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros]], Rigoberto "Rabanito" Jiménez and Domingo Corbacho (trumpets); José Miguel Gómez (trombone); Alberto Limonta (double bass); Tabaquito (congas); Clemente Piquero "Chicho" (bongos); Rolando Laserie (drums), and Fernando Álvarez and Enrique Benitez (vocals).<ref name=Roy>{{cite book | last1=Roy | first1=Maya | title=Músicas cubanas | date=2003 | publisher=Akal | page=152 | isbn=9788446012344 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ylUYYWXumY8C | language=es}}</ref> The Banda was generally sixteen musicians, comparable in size with the orchestras of [[Xavier Cugat]] and [[Pérez Prado]]. Although Moré could not read music, he arranged material by singing parts to his arrangers, which included pianists Cabrerita and [[Peruchín]], as well as trombonist [[Generoso Jiménez]].<ref name=Roy/>
Between the years 1953 and 1955, the Banda Gigante became immensely popular. Their first recording session took place in November 1953, which included the hit "Manzanillo". Other hits followed, including self-penned songs such as "[[Mi saoco]]", "Santa Isabel de las Lajas", "Cienfuegos" and "Dolor y perdón".<ref name="Diaz" /> In 1956 and 1957, they toured Dominican Republic, [[Venezuela]], [[Jamaica]], [[Haiti]], [[Colombia]], Panama, Mexico, [[Puerto Rico]] and the [[United States]], where the group played at the [[Academy Awards]]. In Havana, they played at a multitude of dance halls and cabarets such as the [[Tropicana Club]], La Campana, El Sierra, Night and Day, Alí Bar Club, and the [[Hotel Habana Riviera]] and [[Hotel Tryp Habana Libre]].<ref>Martínez Rodríguez (1993), p. 22.</ref>
Moré was offered a tour of [[Europe]], [[France]] in particular, but he rejected it because of his [[fear of flying]]; he had by that time been in three airplane accidents.
===Final years===
In the aftermath of the [[Cuban Revolution]], many of Cuba's top musical figures emigrated, but Moré stayed in Cuba, among, as he said, "mi gente" (my people).
==Death==
Moré suffered from [[alcoholism]] and died of [[cirrhosis]] of the [[liver]] in 1963 at the age of 43. His funeral was attended by tens of thousands of people.<ref name=":0" />
==Awards and recognition==
[[File:5.12.11BenyMoréLectureByLuigiNovi1.jpg|thumb|right|A 12 May 2011 multimedia lecture on Moré in the heavily [[Cuban-American]] community of [[Union City, New Jersey]]]]
Moré has been cited as the greatest singer in Cuban music history by critics and musicians.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Steward |first1=Sue |title=Musica!: The Rhythm of Latin America - Salsa, Rumba, Merengue, and More |date=1999 |publisher=Chronicle Books |isbn=9780811825665 |page=32 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lz3QhnOaC14C |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Gerard |first1=Charley |title=Music from Cuba: Mongo Santamaría, Chocolate Armenteros, and Cuban Musicians in the United States |date=2001 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=9780275966829 |page=107 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cZH22u6_p50C |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Castañeda |first1=Angela Nicole |title="Veracruz También Es Caribe": Power, Politics, and Performance in the Making of an Afro-Caribbean Identity |date=2004 |publisher=Indiana University |page=92 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QEIeAQAAMAAJ |language=en}}</ref> In 1999, Moré was posthumously inducted into the [[International Latin Music Hall of Fame]] and the [[Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame]] in 2016.<ref>{{cite news|title=Draco Rosa y Miguel Luna al salón de la fama de los compositores latinos|url=http://www.orlandosentinel.com/elsentinel/os-es-draco-rosa-miguel-luna-salon-fama-compositores-latinos-20161014-story.html|access-date=December 22, 2017|work=Orlando Sentinel|date=October 15, 2016|language=es}}</ref> The [[Beny Moré Memorial Award]] was named in honor of the artist and was given to artists who were influential in Latin music.<ref>{{cite journal | last=de Fontenay | first=Sounni | title=International Latin Music Hall of Fame | journal=Latin American Rhythm Magazine | url=http://laritmo.com/mag/index.php3?id=253 | date=7 December 1998 | access-date=5 November 2015 | archive-date=18 October 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141018225223/http://laritmo.com/mag/index.php3?id=253 | url-status=dead }}</ref> On 11 June 2006, Moré was honored with a star on the Walk of Fame at [[Celia Cruz]] Park in [[Union City, New Jersey]], a heavily Cuban-American community<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.wpr.org/culture-cuban-choral-and-instrumental-music | title=The Culture Of Cuban Choral and Instrumental Music | first=Jonathan | last=Overby | work=[[Wisconsin Public Radio]] | date=November 29, 2014}}</ref><ref name=GoogleNews>{{cite news | last=Bartlett | first=Kay | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1129&dat=19770628&id=4kwNAAAAIBAJ&pg=4464,3136176 | title=Little Havana on the Hudson | work=[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]] | date=28 June 1977}}</ref><ref name=HavanaOnHudson>{{cite news | last=Hope | first=Bradley | url=http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=574&topicId=100020669&docId=l:413337263&start=1 | title=Havana on Hudson Reverberates After Castro's Operation | work=[[The New York Sun]] | date=2 August 2006 | quote=Several of the group's leaders sat in chairs around the union hall on a quiet street in Union City, N.J., a town minutes away from Manhattan that was once known as "Havana on the Hudson" | access-date=16 May 2011 | archive-date=24 February 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224065539/http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=574&topicId=100020669&docId=l:413337263&start=1 | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>Grenier, Guillermo J. [https://books.google.com/books?id=3XBcqhL_pKEC ''Miami now!: immigration, ethnicity, and social change'']; archived at [[Google Books]].</ref> that has hosted musical presentations and multimedia lectures on the singer.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.cubaencuentro.com/cartelera/agenda/con-su-permiso-beny-more-262176 | title=Con su permiso, Beny Moré | work=Cuba En Cuento | date=12 May 2011}}</ref>
==Legacy==
Beny Moré appears as a character in the novel ''[[The Island of Eternal Love]] '' ([[Penguin Random House]], 2008), by [[Cuban Americans|Cuban-American]] writer [[Daína Chaviano]], who also concludes her novel with a chapter titled "[[Today as yesterday|Today as Yesterday]]", one of the best interpretations of this singer. Moré is also remembered in the 2006 film ''[[El Beny]]'', which is based on parts of his life, and includes new versions of his songs performed by musicians including [[Chucho Valdés]], Juan Formell and [[Orishas (band)|Orishas]].
Numerous [[tribute album]]s consisting of [[cover version]]s of Moré's songs have been released by artists such as [[Tito Puente]] (1978, 1979 and 1985), Charanga de la 4 (1981), Bobby Carcassés (1985), Tropicana All-Stars (2004) and [[Jon Secada]] (2017).<ref>{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/latin/7676257/jon-secada-como-fue-beny-more-premiere | title=Listen to Jon Secada's New Single 'Como Fue,' Feat. Beny More: Exclusive Premiere | first=Griselda | last=Flores | magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] | date=February 1, 2017}}</ref>
==Selected discography==
Records from 1963 onwards include at least one or more unreleased songs.
* ''El Inigualable'' (Discuba, 1957)
* ''The Most From Beny Moré'' (Victor, 1958; recorded 1955–1957)
* ''Así es...'' (Victor, 1958)
* ''Pare... que llegó el bárbaro'' (Victor/Discuba, 1958)
* ''Así es... Beny'' (Discuba, 1958)
* ''La Época de Oro'' (Victor, 1958)
* ''Magia antillana'' (Victor, 1960; recorded 1949–1953)
* ''El Barbaro del Ritmo'' with [[Perez Prado]] and [[Rafael De Paz]] (Victor, 1962; recorded 1949–1951)
* ''Homenaje póstumo'' (Discuba, 1963; recorded 1960)
* ''Beny More Y Su Orquesta...'' (Palma, 1964)
* ''Recordando'' (RCA Camden, 1964)
* ''Lo Mejor de Beny Moré'' (RCA, 1965)
* ''La Época De Oro Vol.II'' (RCA, 1969)
* ''y Su Salsa de Siempre'' (RCA, 1978)
* ''Grandes Exitos'' (Darcole Music, 1979)
* ''Ensalada De Mambo'' (RCA, 1980)
* ''Lo Último Que Cantó Beny More'' (Integra, 1980)
* ''Lo Desconocido De Beny More'' (RCA, 1982)
* ''Cubanísimo-1'' with [[Trío Matamoros]] and [[Ernesto Duarte]]'s orchestra (Producciones Preludio, 1983; recorded 1945–1947)
* ''Leyendas Musicales'' (Producciones Preludio, 1986)
* ''Beny Moré Canta Con...'' (RCA, 1988)
* ''Conjunto Matamoros With Beny Moré'' with [[Conjunto Matamoros]] (Tumbao Cuban Classics, 1992; recorded 1945–1947)
* ''El Barbaro del Ritmo'' with [[Perez Prado]] (Tumbao Cuban Classics, 1992; recorded 1949–1951)
* ''Beny Moré En Vivo'' (Discmedi, 1995; recorded 1957)
* ''Beny More Canta Boleros'' (Estudios EGREM, 2006; recorded 1953–1960)
==References==
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==External links==
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* {{IMDb name|0608200}}
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1VE56pc3Rk Video of Beny Moré and his Banda Gigante]
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-'''Bartolomé Maximiliano Moré Gutiérrez''' (24 August 1919 – 19 February 1963),<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|last=Whitefield|first=Mimi|date=2016-11-17|title=Benny Moré is still 'The Master of Rhythm' in his Cuban hometown|work=Miami Herald|url=https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/cuba/article115268928.html|access-date=2020-05-07}}</ref> better known as '''Benny Moré''' (also spelled '''Beny Moré'''), was a Cuban singer, bandleader and songwriter. Due to his fluid [[tenor]] voice and his great expressivity, he was known variously as "El Bárbaro del Ritmo"<ref name=":0" /> and "El Sonero Mayor".<ref>{{cite book | last=Radanovich | first=John | title=Wildman of Rhythm: The Life and Music of Benny Moré | date=2009 | publisher=[[University Press of Florida]] | isbn=9780813033938 | url=https://archive.org/details/wildmanofrhythml00rada }}</ref> Moré was a master of the {{lang|es|soneo}} – the art of vocal improvisation in [[son cubano]] – and many of his tunes developed this way.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Horn |first1=David |last2=Laing |first2=Dave |title=Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Part 2 Locations: Volumes III to VII |date=2005 |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |isbn=9780826474360 |page=90 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jTHaAAAAMAAJ |language=en}}</ref> He often took part in ''controversias'' (vocal duels) with other singers, including [[Cheo Marquetti]]<ref>{{cite book |title=Revista de revistas |date=1994 |publisher=Empresa Editora Revista de Revistas S.A |page=67 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U8EyAAAAYAAJ |language=es}}</ref> and [[Joseíto Fernández]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gómez Sotolongo |first1=Antonio |title=Al son son y al vino vino |date=2019 |publisher=Lulu |isbn=9780359403295 |page=133 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WNCJDwAAQBAJ |language=es}}</ref> Apart from ''son cubano'', Moré was a popular singer of [[guaracha]]s, [[Cha-cha-chá (music)|cha cha cha]], [[Mambo (music)|mambo]], [[son montuno]], and [[bolero]]s.<ref name=":0" />
+'''Bartolomé Maximiliano Moré Gutiérrez''' (24 August 1919 – 19 February 1963),<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|last=Whitefield|first=Mimi|date=2016-11-17|title=Beny Moré is still 'The Master of Rhythm' in his Cuban hometown|work=Miami Herald|url=https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/cuba/article115268928.html|access-date=2020-05-07}}</ref> better known as '''Beny Moré''' (also spelled '''Beny Moré'''), was a Cuban singer, bandleader and songwriter. Due to his fluid [[tenor]] voice and his great expressivity, he was known variously as "El Bárbaro del Ritmo"<ref name=":0" /> and "El Sonero Mayor".<ref>{{cite book | last=Radanovich | first=John | title=Wildman of Rhythm: The Life and Music of Beny Moré | date=2009 | publisher=[[University Press of Florida]] | isbn=9780813033938 | url=https://archive.org/details/wildmanofrhythml00rada }}</ref> Moré was a master of the {{lang|es|soneo}} – the art of vocal improvisation in [[son cubano]] – and many of his tunes developed this way.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Horn |first1=David |last2=Laing |first2=Dave |title=Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Part 2 Locations: Volumes III to VII |date=2005 |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |isbn=9780826474360 |page=90 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jTHaAAAAMAAJ |language=en}}</ref> He often took part in ''controversias'' (vocal duels) with other singers, including [[Cheo Marquetti]]<ref>{{cite book |title=Revista de revistas |date=1994 |publisher=Empresa Editora Revista de Revistas S.A |page=67 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U8EyAAAAYAAJ |language=es}}</ref> and [[Joseíto Fernández]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gómez Sotolongo |first1=Antonio |title=Al son son y al vino vino |date=2019 |publisher=Lulu |isbn=9780359403295 |page=133 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WNCJDwAAQBAJ |language=es}}</ref> Apart from ''son cubano'', Moré was a popular singer of [[guaracha]]s, [[Cha-cha-chá (music)|cha cha cha]], [[Mambo (music)|mambo]], [[son montuno]], and [[bolero]]s.<ref name=":0" />
Moré started his career with the [[Conjunto Matamoros|Trío Matamoros]] in the 1940s and after a tour in Mexico he decided to stay in the country. Both Moré and dancer [[Ninón Sevilla]] made their cinematic debut in 1946's ''Carita de cielo'', but Moré focused on his music career. In the late 1940s, he sang guaracha-mambos with [[Pérez Prado]], achieving great success. Moré returned to Cuba in 1952 and worked with [[Bebo Valdés]] and [[Ernesto Duarte Brito|Ernesto Duarte]]. In 1953, he formed the Banda Gigante, which became one of the leading Cuban big bands of the 1950s. He suffered from [[alcoholism]] and died of [[cirrhosis|liver cirrhosis]] in 1963 at the age of 43.<ref name=":0" />
==Early life==
-[[File:Cuba Cienfuegos BennyMore (www.pixinn.net).jpg|thumb|right|Bronze statue of Moré in [[Cienfuegos]]' Prado street]]
-The eldest of 18 children, Moré was born in the town of [[Santa Isabel de las Lajas]] in the former [[Santa Clara Province]], current [[Cienfuegos Province]], in central Cuba. His parents were Virginia Moré and Silvestre Gutiérrez.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=▷ Biografía de Benny Moré - ¿QUIÉN FUE?|url=https://biografiadee.com/biografia-de-benny-more/|date=2019-07-18|website=Biografiadee.com|language=es|access-date=2020-05-07}}</ref> His maternal great-great grandfather, Ta Ramón Gundo Paredes (later changed to Ta Ramón Gundo Moré),<ref name=":1" /> was said to be the son of the king of a tribe in the [[Kingdom of Kongo]] who was captured by slave traders and sold to a Cuban plantation owner named Ramon Paredes and subsequently to another Cuban landowner named Conde Moré<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=Biografia de Beny More|url=http://www.americasalsa.com/biografias/beny_more.html|website=www.americasalsa.com|access-date=2020-05-07}}</ref> (Paredes/Moré was later liberated and died as a freeman at age 94.)
+[[File:Cuba Cienfuegos BenyMore (www.pixinn.net).jpg|thumb|right|Bronze statue of Moré in [[Cienfuegos]]' Prado street]]
+The eldest of 18 children, Moré was born in the town of [[Santa Isabel de las Lajas]] in the former [[Santa Clara Province]], current [[Cienfuegos Province]], in central Cuba. His parents were Virginia Moré and Silvestre Gutiérrez.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=▷ Biografía de Beny Moré - ¿QUIÉN FUE?|url=https://biografiadee.com/biografia-de-beny-more/|date=2019-07-18|website=Biografiadee.com|language=es|access-date=2020-05-07}}</ref> His maternal great-great grandfather, Ta Ramón Gundo Paredes (later changed to Ta Ramón Gundo Moré),<ref name=":1" /> was said to be the son of the king of a tribe in the [[Kingdom of Kongo]] who was captured by slave traders and sold to a Cuban plantation owner named Ramon Paredes and subsequently to another Cuban landowner named Conde Moré<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=Biografia de Beny More|url=http://www.americasalsa.com/biografias/beny_more.html|website=www.americasalsa.com|access-date=2020-05-07}}</ref> (Paredes/Moré was later liberated and died as a freeman at age 94.)
As a child, Moré learned to play the guitar, making his first instrument at the age of six, according to his mother, from "a stick and a sardine can that served as the sound box".<ref name=":0" /> In 1936, at the age of 17, he left Las Lajas for [[Havana]], where he made a living by selling bruised and damaged fruits and vegetables and medicinal herbs. Six months later, he returned to Las Lajas and went to cut cane for a season with his brother Teodoro. With the money he earned and Teodoro's savings, Moré bought his first guitar in [[Morón, Cuba|Morón]], Cuba.<ref>Radanovich (2009), p. 19.</ref><ref name=":2" />
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Moré replaced Miguel Matamoros as lead singer, and the latter dedicated himself to leading the band. On 21 June 1945, Moré went with Conjunto Matamoros to [[Mexico]], where he performed in two of the most famous cabarets: the Montparnasse and the Río Rosa. He made several recordings. Conjunto Matamoros returned to Havana, but Moré remained in Mexico. Rafael Cueto said to him: "Fine, but just remember that they call burros 'bartolo' here. Stay, but change your name." "Ok," replied Moré, "from now on my name is Beny, Beny Moré."<ref name=":2" /> Moré was left penniless and got permission to work from the performing artists' union. With this, he was able to get a job at the Río Rosa, where he formed the Dueto Fantasma (also known as Dueto Antillano) with Lalo Montané, in December 1945.<ref>Radanovich (2009), p. 45.</ref>
-In [[Mexico City]], Moré made recordings for [[RCA Victor]], with [[Perez Prado]]: "[[Anabacoa]]", "Bonito y Sabroso", "Mucho Corazón", "Pachito Eché", "[[La Múcura]]", "Rabo y Oreja" and other numbers. He recorded "Dolor Karabalí", which Moré considered his best composition recorded with [[Pérez Prado]], one he never wanted to re-record, also his recording in Mexico with Rafael de Paz Orchestra of "Bonito y Sabroso" was never recorded again by Moré, even though his famous composition of the months prior to leaving Mexico became in time the theme of his big band in Cuba. Moré was always reluctant to record newer versions of his hit songs, as he thought "you don't fix what's not broken". Moré and Prado recorded 28 songs in total, mostly mambos.<ref name="Diaz">{{cite web | last=Díaz Ayala | first=Cristóbal | title=Benny Moré | url=http://latinpop.fiu.edu/SECCION04Mpt2.pdf | website=Encyclopedic Discography of Cuban Music 1925-1960 | publisher=[[Florida International University]] | date=May 2018}}</ref>
+In [[Mexico City]], Moré made recordings for [[RCA Victor]], with [[Perez Prado]]: "[[Anabacoa]]", "Bonito y Sabroso", "Mucho Corazón", "Pachito Eché", "[[La Múcura]]", "Rabo y Oreja" and other numbers. He recorded "Dolor Karabalí", which Moré considered his best composition recorded with [[Pérez Prado]], one he never wanted to re-record, also his recording in Mexico with Rafael de Paz Orchestra of "Bonito y Sabroso" was never recorded again by Moré, even though his famous composition of the months prior to leaving Mexico became in time the theme of his big band in Cuba. Moré was always reluctant to record newer versions of his hit songs, as he thought "you don't fix what's not broken". Moré and Prado recorded 28 songs in total, mostly mambos.<ref name="Diaz">{{cite web | last=Díaz Ayala | first=Cristóbal | title=Beny Moré | url=http://latinpop.fiu.edu/SECCION04Mpt2.pdf | website=Encyclopedic Discography of Cuban Music 1925-1960 | publisher=[[Florida International University]] | date=May 2018}}</ref>
-Moré also recorded with the orchestra of Mariano Mercerón: "Me Voy Pa'l Pueblo", "Desdichado", "Mucho Corazon", "Ensalada de Mambo", "Rumberos de Ayer" and "Encantado de la Vida" with "El Conjunto de Lalo Montane", a Colombian singer and composer, with which he recorded in Mexico, conforming a famous duo called "The Phantom Duet" or "Dueto Fantasma". He also recorded with Mexican orchestras, specially with the one directed by Rafael de Paz; they recorded "Yiri Yiri Bon", "La Culebra", "Mata Siguaraya", "[[Solamente Una Vez]]" and "Bonito y Sabroso", a mambo song where he praises the dancing skills of the Mexicans and claims that [[Mexico City]] and [[La Habana]] are sister cities. In this time Benny also recorded with the orchestra of Jesús "Chucho" Rodríguez. El "Chucho" was so impressed with Benny's musical ability that he referred to him as "El Bárbaro del Ritmo".
+Moré also recorded with the orchestra of Mariano Mercerón: "Me Voy Pa'l Pueblo", "Desdichado", "Mucho Corazon", "Ensalada de Mambo", "Rumberos de Ayer" and "Encantado de la Vida" with "El Conjunto de Lalo Montane", a Colombian singer and composer, with which he recorded in Mexico, conforming a famous duo called "The Phantom Duet" or "Dueto Fantasma". He also recorded with Mexican orchestras, specially with the one directed by Rafael de Paz; they recorded "Yiri Yiri Bon", "La Culebra", "Mata Siguaraya", "[[Solamente Una Vez]]" and "Bonito y Sabroso", a mambo song where he praises the dancing skills of the Mexicans and claims that [[Mexico City]] and [[La Habana]] are sister cities. In this time Beny also recorded with the orchestra of Jesús "Chucho" Rodríguez. El "Chucho" was so impressed with Beny's musical ability that he referred to him as "El Bárbaro del Ritmo".
Moré and other performers such as [[Amalia Aguilar]] appeared as themselves in the Ernesto Cortázar-directed 1949 film ''En cada puerto un amor'', a film in the musical comedy and drama genres.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0146673/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast "En cada puerto un amor"], IMDb.</ref><ref>Rafael Lim, "Beny Moré in Film", ''CUBANOW'', Susana Hurlich, translator.</ref>
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===Banda Gigante===
-[[File:Pacho Alonso, La Lupe & Benny Moré.jpg|thumb|right|Moré (right) with [[La Lupe]] and [[Pacho Alonso]], {{Circa|1959}}. All three were signed to the [[RCA Victor]] subsidiary [[Discuba]].]]
-Also in 1952, Moré was told that Duarte Brito was not taking Moré to certain Saturday engagements because Moré was black.<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=Benny More - Biografía, historia y legado musical {{!}} BuenaMusica.com|url=https://www.buenamusica.com/benny-more/biografia|website=www.buenamusica.com|language=es|access-date=2020-05-07}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Benny Moré "El Bárbaro del Ritmo", "El Príncipe del Mambo"|url=http://lasalsabrava.com/benny-more-el-barbaro-del-ritmo/|date=2014-04-02|website=La Salsa Brava|language=es-ES|access-date=2020-05-07}}</ref> Moré was furious and brought the issue up to the RCA Records agent in Cuba (Maurico Conde). When nothing was done, Moré decided to form his own orchestra.<ref name=":2" /> The first performance of Moré's Banda Gigante was in the CMQ radio program ''Cascabeles Candado'' on August 3, 1953.<ref>{{cite book | last=Martínez Rodríguez | first=Raúl | title=Benny Moré | date=1993 | publisher=Editorial Letras Cubanas | isbn=9591000855 | page=[https://archive.org/details/bennymore00mart/page/18 18] | language=es | url=https://archive.org/details/bennymore00mart/page/18 }}</ref> The original lineup featured Ignacio Cabrera "Cabrerita" (piano); Miguel Franca, Santiago Peñalver, Roberto Barreto, Celso Gómez and Virgilio Vixama (saxophones); [[Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros]], Rigoberto "Rabanito" Jiménez and Domingo Corbacho (trumpets); José Miguel Gómez (trombone); Alberto Limonta (double bass); Tabaquito (congas); Clemente Piquero "Chicho" (bongos); Rolando Laserie (drums), and Fernando Álvarez and Enrique Benitez (vocals).<ref name=Roy>{{cite book | last1=Roy | first1=Maya | title=Músicas cubanas | date=2003 | publisher=Akal | page=152 | isbn=9788446012344 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ylUYYWXumY8C | language=es}}</ref> The Banda was generally sixteen musicians, comparable in size with the orchestras of [[Xavier Cugat]] and [[Pérez Prado]]. Although Moré could not read music, he arranged material by singing parts to his arrangers, which included pianists Cabrerita and [[Peruchín]], as well as trombonist [[Generoso Jiménez]].<ref name=Roy/>
+[[File:Pacho Alonso, La Lupe & Beny Moré.jpg|thumb|right|Moré (right) with [[La Lupe]] and [[Pacho Alonso]], {{Circa|1959}}. All three were signed to the [[RCA Victor]] subsidiary [[Discuba]].]]
+Also in 1952, Moré was told that Duarte Brito was not taking Moré to certain Saturday engagements because Moré was black.<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=Beny More - Biografía, historia y legado musical {{!}} BuenaMusica.com|url=https://www.buenamusica.com/bnny-more/biografia|website=www.buenamusica.com|language=es|access-date=2020-05-07}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Beny Moré "El Bárbaro del Ritmo", "El Príncipe del Mambo"|url=http://lasalsabrava.com/beny-more-el-barbaro-del-ritmo/|date=2014-04-02|website=La Salsa Brava|language=es-ES|access-date=2020-05-07}}</ref> Moré was furious and brought the issue up to the RCA Records agent in Cuba (Maurico Conde). When nothing was done, Moré decided to form his own orchestra.<ref name=":2" /> The first performance of Moré's Banda Gigante was in the CMQ radio program ''Cascabeles Candado'' on August 3, 1953.<ref>{{cite book | last=Martínez Rodríguez | first=Raúl | title=Beny Moré | date=1993 | publisher=Editorial Letras Cubanas | isbn=9591000855 | page=[https://archive.org/details/benymore00mart/page/18 18] | language=es | url=https://archive.org/details/benymore00mart/page/18 }}</ref> The original lineup featured Ignacio Cabrera "Cabrerita" (piano); Miguel Franca, Santiago Peñalver, Roberto Barreto, Celso Gómez and Virgilio Vixama (saxophones); [[Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros]], Rigoberto "Rabanito" Jiménez and Domingo Corbacho (trumpets); José Miguel Gómez (trombone); Alberto Limonta (double bass); Tabaquito (congas); Clemente Piquero "Chicho" (bongos); Rolando Laserie (drums), and Fernando Álvarez and Enrique Benitez (vocals).<ref name=Roy>{{cite book | last1=Roy | first1=Maya | title=Músicas cubanas | date=2003 | publisher=Akal | page=152 | isbn=9788446012344 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ylUYYWXumY8C | language=es}}</ref> The Banda was generally sixteen musicians, comparable in size with the orchestras of [[Xavier Cugat]] and [[Pérez Prado]]. Although Moré could not read music, he arranged material by singing parts to his arrangers, which included pianists Cabrerita and [[Peruchín]], as well as trombonist [[Generoso Jiménez]].<ref name=Roy/>
Between the years 1953 and 1955, the Banda Gigante became immensely popular. Their first recording session took place in November 1953, which included the hit "Manzanillo". Other hits followed, including self-penned songs such as "[[Mi saoco]]", "Santa Isabel de las Lajas", "Cienfuegos" and "Dolor y perdón".<ref name="Diaz" /> In 1956 and 1957, they toured Dominican Republic, [[Venezuela]], [[Jamaica]], [[Haiti]], [[Colombia]], Panama, Mexico, [[Puerto Rico]] and the [[United States]], where the group played at the [[Academy Awards]]. In Havana, they played at a multitude of dance halls and cabarets such as the [[Tropicana Club]], La Campana, El Sierra, Night and Day, Alí Bar Club, and the [[Hotel Habana Riviera]] and [[Hotel Tryp Habana Libre]].<ref>Martínez Rodríguez (1993), p. 22.</ref>
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==Awards and recognition==
-[[File:5.12.11BennyMoréLectureByLuigiNovi1.jpg|thumb|right|A 12 May 2011 multimedia lecture on Moré in the heavily [[Cuban-American]] community of [[Union City, New Jersey]]]]
-Moré has been cited as the greatest singer in Cuban music history by critics and musicians.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Steward |first1=Sue |title=Musica!: The Rhythm of Latin America - Salsa, Rumba, Merengue, and More |date=1999 |publisher=Chronicle Books |isbn=9780811825665 |page=32 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lz3QhnOaC14C |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Gerard |first1=Charley |title=Music from Cuba: Mongo Santamaría, Chocolate Armenteros, and Cuban Musicians in the United States |date=2001 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=9780275966829 |page=107 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cZH22u6_p50C |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Castañeda |first1=Angela Nicole |title="Veracruz También Es Caribe": Power, Politics, and Performance in the Making of an Afro-Caribbean Identity |date=2004 |publisher=Indiana University |page=92 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QEIeAQAAMAAJ |language=en}}</ref> In 1999, Moré was posthumously inducted into the [[International Latin Music Hall of Fame]] and the [[Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame]] in 2016.<ref>{{cite news|title=Draco Rosa y Miguel Luna al salón de la fama de los compositores latinos|url=http://www.orlandosentinel.com/elsentinel/os-es-draco-rosa-miguel-luna-salon-fama-compositores-latinos-20161014-story.html|access-date=December 22, 2017|work=Orlando Sentinel|date=October 15, 2016|language=es}}</ref> The [[Benny Moré Memorial Award]] was named in honor of the artist and was given to artists who were influential in Latin music.<ref>{{cite journal | last=de Fontenay | first=Sounni | title=International Latin Music Hall of Fame | journal=Latin American Rhythm Magazine | url=http://laritmo.com/mag/index.php3?id=253 | date=7 December 1998 | access-date=5 November 2015 | archive-date=18 October 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141018225223/http://laritmo.com/mag/index.php3?id=253 | url-status=dead }}</ref> On 11 June 2006, Moré was honored with a star on the Walk of Fame at [[Celia Cruz]] Park in [[Union City, New Jersey]], a heavily Cuban-American community<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.wpr.org/culture-cuban-choral-and-instrumental-music | title=The Culture Of Cuban Choral and Instrumental Music | first=Jonathan | last=Overby | work=[[Wisconsin Public Radio]] | date=November 29, 2014}}</ref><ref name=GoogleNews>{{cite news | last=Bartlett | first=Kay | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1129&dat=19770628&id=4kwNAAAAIBAJ&pg=4464,3136176 | title=Little Havana on the Hudson | work=[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]] | date=28 June 1977}}</ref><ref name=HavanaOnHudson>{{cite news | last=Hope | first=Bradley | url=http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=574&topicId=100020669&docId=l:413337263&start=1 | title=Havana on Hudson Reverberates After Castro's Operation | work=[[The New York Sun]] | date=2 August 2006 | quote=Several of the group's leaders sat in chairs around the union hall on a quiet street in Union City, N.J., a town minutes away from Manhattan that was once known as "Havana on the Hudson" | access-date=16 May 2011 | archive-date=24 February 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224065539/http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=574&topicId=100020669&docId=l:413337263&start=1 | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>Grenier, Guillermo J. [https://books.google.com/books?id=3XBcqhL_pKEC ''Miami now!: immigration, ethnicity, and social change'']; archived at [[Google Books]].</ref> that has hosted musical presentations and multimedia lectures on the singer.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.cubaencuentro.com/cartelera/agenda/con-su-permiso-benny-more-262176 | title=Con su permiso, Benny Moré | work=Cuba En Cuento | date=12 May 2011}}</ref>
+[[File:5.12.11BenyMoréLectureByLuigiNovi1.jpg|thumb|right|A 12 May 2011 multimedia lecture on Moré in the heavily [[Cuban-American]] community of [[Union City, New Jersey]]]]
+Moré has been cited as the greatest singer in Cuban music history by critics and musicians.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Steward |first1=Sue |title=Musica!: The Rhythm of Latin America - Salsa, Rumba, Merengue, and More |date=1999 |publisher=Chronicle Books |isbn=9780811825665 |page=32 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lz3QhnOaC14C |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Gerard |first1=Charley |title=Music from Cuba: Mongo Santamaría, Chocolate Armenteros, and Cuban Musicians in the United States |date=2001 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=9780275966829 |page=107 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cZH22u6_p50C |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Castañeda |first1=Angela Nicole |title="Veracruz También Es Caribe": Power, Politics, and Performance in the Making of an Afro-Caribbean Identity |date=2004 |publisher=Indiana University |page=92 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QEIeAQAAMAAJ |language=en}}</ref> In 1999, Moré was posthumously inducted into the [[International Latin Music Hall of Fame]] and the [[Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame]] in 2016.<ref>{{cite news|title=Draco Rosa y Miguel Luna al salón de la fama de los compositores latinos|url=http://www.orlandosentinel.com/elsentinel/os-es-draco-rosa-miguel-luna-salon-fama-compositores-latinos-20161014-story.html|access-date=December 22, 2017|work=Orlando Sentinel|date=October 15, 2016|language=es}}</ref> The [[Beny Moré Memorial Award]] was named in honor of the artist and was given to artists who were influential in Latin music.<ref>{{cite journal | last=de Fontenay | first=Sounni | title=International Latin Music Hall of Fame | journal=Latin American Rhythm Magazine | url=http://laritmo.com/mag/index.php3?id=253 | date=7 December 1998 | access-date=5 November 2015 | archive-date=18 October 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141018225223/http://laritmo.com/mag/index.php3?id=253 | url-status=dead }}</ref> On 11 June 2006, Moré was honored with a star on the Walk of Fame at [[Celia Cruz]] Park in [[Union City, New Jersey]], a heavily Cuban-American community<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.wpr.org/culture-cuban-choral-and-instrumental-music | title=The Culture Of Cuban Choral and Instrumental Music | first=Jonathan | last=Overby | work=[[Wisconsin Public Radio]] | date=November 29, 2014}}</ref><ref name=GoogleNews>{{cite news | last=Bartlett | first=Kay | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1129&dat=19770628&id=4kwNAAAAIBAJ&pg=4464,3136176 | title=Little Havana on the Hudson | work=[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]] | date=28 June 1977}}</ref><ref name=HavanaOnHudson>{{cite news | last=Hope | first=Bradley | url=http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=574&topicId=100020669&docId=l:413337263&start=1 | title=Havana on Hudson Reverberates After Castro's Operation | work=[[The New York Sun]] | date=2 August 2006 | quote=Several of the group's leaders sat in chairs around the union hall on a quiet street in Union City, N.J., a town minutes away from Manhattan that was once known as "Havana on the Hudson" | access-date=16 May 2011 | archive-date=24 February 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224065539/http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=574&topicId=100020669&docId=l:413337263&start=1 | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>Grenier, Guillermo J. [https://books.google.com/books?id=3XBcqhL_pKEC ''Miami now!: immigration, ethnicity, and social change'']; archived at [[Google Books]].</ref> that has hosted musical presentations and multimedia lectures on the singer.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.cubaencuentro.com/cartelera/agenda/con-su-permiso-beny-more-262176 | title=Con su permiso, Beny Moré | work=Cuba En Cuento | date=12 May 2011}}</ref>
==Legacy==
-Beny Moré appears as a character in the novel ''[[The Island of Eternal Love]] '' ([[Penguin Random House]], 2008), by [[Cuban Americans|Cuban-American]] writer [[Daína Chaviano]], who also concludes her novel with a chapter titled "[[Today as yesterday|Today as Yesterday]]", one of the best interpretations of this singer. Moré is also remembered in the 2006 film ''[[El Benny]]'', which is based on parts of his life, and includes new versions of his songs performed by musicians including [[Chucho Valdés]], Juan Formell and [[Orishas (band)|Orishas]].
+Beny Moré appears as a character in the novel ''[[The Island of Eternal Love]] '' ([[Penguin Random House]], 2008), by [[Cuban Americans|Cuban-American]] writer [[Daína Chaviano]], who also concludes her novel with a chapter titled "[[Today as yesterday|Today as Yesterday]]", one of the best interpretations of this singer. Moré is also remembered in the 2006 film ''[[El Beny]]'', which is based on parts of his life, and includes new versions of his songs performed by musicians including [[Chucho Valdés]], Juan Formell and [[Orishas (band)|Orishas]].
Numerous [[tribute album]]s consisting of [[cover version]]s of Moré's songs have been released by artists such as [[Tito Puente]] (1978, 1979 and 1985), Charanga de la 4 (1981), Bobby Carcassés (1985), Tropicana All-Stars (2004) and [[Jon Secada]] (2017).<ref>{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/latin/7676257/jon-secada-como-fue-beny-more-premiere | title=Listen to Jon Secada's New Single 'Como Fue,' Feat. Beny More: Exclusive Premiere | first=Griselda | last=Flores | magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] | date=February 1, 2017}}</ref>
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* ''El Barbaro del Ritmo'' with [[Perez Prado]] and [[Rafael De Paz]] (Victor, 1962; recorded 1949–1951)
* ''Homenaje póstumo'' (Discuba, 1963; recorded 1960)
-* ''Benny More Y Su Orquesta...'' (Palma, 1964)
+* ''Beny More Y Su Orquesta...'' (Palma, 1964)
* ''Recordando'' (RCA Camden, 1964)
* ''Lo Mejor de Beny Moré'' (RCA, 1965)
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* ''Conjunto Matamoros With Beny Moré'' with [[Conjunto Matamoros]] (Tumbao Cuban Classics, 1992; recorded 1945–1947)
* ''El Barbaro del Ritmo'' with [[Perez Prado]] (Tumbao Cuban Classics, 1992; recorded 1949–1951)
-* ''Benny Moré En Vivo'' (Discmedi, 1995; recorded 1957)
-* ''Benny More Canta Boleros'' (Estudios EGREM, 2006; recorded 1953–1960)
+* ''Beny Moré En Vivo'' (Discmedi, 1995; recorded 1957)
+* ''Beny More Canta Boleros'' (Estudios EGREM, 2006; recorded 1953–1960)
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-{{Commons category|Benny Moré}}
+*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1VE56pc3Rk Video of Beny Moré and his Banda Gigante]
+{{Commons category|Beny Moré}}
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1 => ''''Bartolomé Maximiliano Moré Gutiérrez''' (24 August 1919 – 19 February 1963),<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|last=Whitefield|first=Mimi|date=2016-11-17|title=Beny Moré is still 'The Master of Rhythm' in his Cuban hometown|work=Miami Herald|url=https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/cuba/article115268928.html|access-date=2020-05-07}}</ref> better known as '''Beny Moré''' (also spelled '''Beny Moré'''), was a Cuban singer, bandleader and songwriter. Due to his fluid [[tenor]] voice and his great expressivity, he was known variously as "El Bárbaro del Ritmo"<ref name=":0" /> and "El Sonero Mayor".<ref>{{cite book | last=Radanovich | first=John | title=Wildman of Rhythm: The Life and Music of Beny Moré | date=2009 | publisher=[[University Press of Florida]] | isbn=9780813033938 | url=https://archive.org/details/wildmanofrhythml00rada }}</ref> Moré was a master of the {{lang|es|soneo}} – the art of vocal improvisation in [[son cubano]] – and many of his tunes developed this way.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Horn |first1=David |last2=Laing |first2=Dave |title=Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Part 2 Locations: Volumes III to VII |date=2005 |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |isbn=9780826474360 |page=90 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jTHaAAAAMAAJ |language=en}}</ref> He often took part in ''controversias'' (vocal duels) with other singers, including [[Cheo Marquetti]]<ref>{{cite book |title=Revista de revistas |date=1994 |publisher=Empresa Editora Revista de Revistas S.A |page=67 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U8EyAAAAYAAJ |language=es}}</ref> and [[Joseíto Fernández]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gómez Sotolongo |first1=Antonio |title=Al son son y al vino vino |date=2019 |publisher=Lulu |isbn=9780359403295 |page=133 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WNCJDwAAQBAJ |language=es}}</ref> Apart from ''son cubano'', Moré was a popular singer of [[guaracha]]s, [[Cha-cha-chá (music)|cha cha cha]], [[Mambo (music)|mambo]], [[son montuno]], and [[bolero]]s.<ref name=":0" />',
2 => '[[File:Cuba Cienfuegos BenyMore (www.pixinn.net).jpg|thumb|right|Bronze statue of Moré in [[Cienfuegos]]' Prado street]]',
3 => 'The eldest of 18 children, Moré was born in the town of [[Santa Isabel de las Lajas]] in the former [[Santa Clara Province]], current [[Cienfuegos Province]], in central Cuba. His parents were Virginia Moré and Silvestre Gutiérrez.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=▷ Biografía de Beny Moré - ¿QUIÉN FUE?|url=https://biografiadee.com/biografia-de-beny-more/|date=2019-07-18|website=Biografiadee.com|language=es|access-date=2020-05-07}}</ref> His maternal great-great grandfather, Ta Ramón Gundo Paredes (later changed to Ta Ramón Gundo Moré),<ref name=":1" /> was said to be the son of the king of a tribe in the [[Kingdom of Kongo]] who was captured by slave traders and sold to a Cuban plantation owner named Ramon Paredes and subsequently to another Cuban landowner named Conde Moré<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=Biografia de Beny More|url=http://www.americasalsa.com/biografias/beny_more.html|website=www.americasalsa.com|access-date=2020-05-07}}</ref> (Paredes/Moré was later liberated and died as a freeman at age 94.)',
4 => 'In [[Mexico City]], Moré made recordings for [[RCA Victor]], with [[Perez Prado]]: "[[Anabacoa]]", "Bonito y Sabroso", "Mucho Corazón", "Pachito Eché", "[[La Múcura]]", "Rabo y Oreja" and other numbers. He recorded "Dolor Karabalí", which Moré considered his best composition recorded with [[Pérez Prado]], one he never wanted to re-record, also his recording in Mexico with Rafael de Paz Orchestra of "Bonito y Sabroso" was never recorded again by Moré, even though his famous composition of the months prior to leaving Mexico became in time the theme of his big band in Cuba. Moré was always reluctant to record newer versions of his hit songs, as he thought "you don't fix what's not broken". Moré and Prado recorded 28 songs in total, mostly mambos.<ref name="Diaz">{{cite web | last=Díaz Ayala | first=Cristóbal | title=Beny Moré | url=http://latinpop.fiu.edu/SECCION04Mpt2.pdf | website=Encyclopedic Discography of Cuban Music 1925-1960 | publisher=[[Florida International University]] | date=May 2018}}</ref>',
5 => 'Moré also recorded with the orchestra of Mariano Mercerón: "Me Voy Pa'l Pueblo", "Desdichado", "Mucho Corazon", "Ensalada de Mambo", "Rumberos de Ayer" and "Encantado de la Vida" with "El Conjunto de Lalo Montane", a Colombian singer and composer, with which he recorded in Mexico, conforming a famous duo called "The Phantom Duet" or "Dueto Fantasma". He also recorded with Mexican orchestras, specially with the one directed by Rafael de Paz; they recorded "Yiri Yiri Bon", "La Culebra", "Mata Siguaraya", "[[Solamente Una Vez]]" and "Bonito y Sabroso", a mambo song where he praises the dancing skills of the Mexicans and claims that [[Mexico City]] and [[La Habana]] are sister cities. In this time Beny also recorded with the orchestra of Jesús "Chucho" Rodríguez. El "Chucho" was so impressed with Beny's musical ability that he referred to him as "El Bárbaro del Ritmo". ',
6 => '[[File:Pacho Alonso, La Lupe & Beny Moré.jpg|thumb|right|Moré (right) with [[La Lupe]] and [[Pacho Alonso]], {{Circa|1959}}. All three were signed to the [[RCA Victor]] subsidiary [[Discuba]].]]',
7 => 'Also in 1952, Moré was told that Duarte Brito was not taking Moré to certain Saturday engagements because Moré was black.<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=Beny More - Biografía, historia y legado musical {{!}} BuenaMusica.com|url=https://www.buenamusica.com/bnny-more/biografia|website=www.buenamusica.com|language=es|access-date=2020-05-07}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Beny Moré "El Bárbaro del Ritmo", "El Príncipe del Mambo"|url=http://lasalsabrava.com/beny-more-el-barbaro-del-ritmo/|date=2014-04-02|website=La Salsa Brava|language=es-ES|access-date=2020-05-07}}</ref> Moré was furious and brought the issue up to the RCA Records agent in Cuba (Maurico Conde). When nothing was done, Moré decided to form his own orchestra.<ref name=":2" /> The first performance of Moré's Banda Gigante was in the CMQ radio program ''Cascabeles Candado'' on August 3, 1953.<ref>{{cite book | last=Martínez Rodríguez | first=Raúl | title=Beny Moré | date=1993 | publisher=Editorial Letras Cubanas | isbn=9591000855 | page=[https://archive.org/details/benymore00mart/page/18 18] | language=es | url=https://archive.org/details/benymore00mart/page/18 }}</ref> The original lineup featured Ignacio Cabrera "Cabrerita" (piano); Miguel Franca, Santiago Peñalver, Roberto Barreto, Celso Gómez and Virgilio Vixama (saxophones); [[Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros]], Rigoberto "Rabanito" Jiménez and Domingo Corbacho (trumpets); José Miguel Gómez (trombone); Alberto Limonta (double bass); Tabaquito (congas); Clemente Piquero "Chicho" (bongos); Rolando Laserie (drums), and Fernando Álvarez and Enrique Benitez (vocals).<ref name=Roy>{{cite book | last1=Roy | first1=Maya | title=Músicas cubanas | date=2003 | publisher=Akal | page=152 | isbn=9788446012344 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ylUYYWXumY8C | language=es}}</ref> The Banda was generally sixteen musicians, comparable in size with the orchestras of [[Xavier Cugat]] and [[Pérez Prado]]. Although Moré could not read music, he arranged material by singing parts to his arrangers, which included pianists Cabrerita and [[Peruchín]], as well as trombonist [[Generoso Jiménez]].<ref name=Roy/>',
8 => '[[File:5.12.11BenyMoréLectureByLuigiNovi1.jpg|thumb|right|A 12 May 2011 multimedia lecture on Moré in the heavily [[Cuban-American]] community of [[Union City, New Jersey]]]]',
9 => 'Moré has been cited as the greatest singer in Cuban music history by critics and musicians.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Steward |first1=Sue |title=Musica!: The Rhythm of Latin America - Salsa, Rumba, Merengue, and More |date=1999 |publisher=Chronicle Books |isbn=9780811825665 |page=32 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lz3QhnOaC14C |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Gerard |first1=Charley |title=Music from Cuba: Mongo Santamaría, Chocolate Armenteros, and Cuban Musicians in the United States |date=2001 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=9780275966829 |page=107 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cZH22u6_p50C |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Castañeda |first1=Angela Nicole |title="Veracruz También Es Caribe": Power, Politics, and Performance in the Making of an Afro-Caribbean Identity |date=2004 |publisher=Indiana University |page=92 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QEIeAQAAMAAJ |language=en}}</ref> In 1999, Moré was posthumously inducted into the [[International Latin Music Hall of Fame]] and the [[Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame]] in 2016.<ref>{{cite news|title=Draco Rosa y Miguel Luna al salón de la fama de los compositores latinos|url=http://www.orlandosentinel.com/elsentinel/os-es-draco-rosa-miguel-luna-salon-fama-compositores-latinos-20161014-story.html|access-date=December 22, 2017|work=Orlando Sentinel|date=October 15, 2016|language=es}}</ref> The [[Beny Moré Memorial Award]] was named in honor of the artist and was given to artists who were influential in Latin music.<ref>{{cite journal | last=de Fontenay | first=Sounni | title=International Latin Music Hall of Fame | journal=Latin American Rhythm Magazine | url=http://laritmo.com/mag/index.php3?id=253 | date=7 December 1998 | access-date=5 November 2015 | archive-date=18 October 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141018225223/http://laritmo.com/mag/index.php3?id=253 | url-status=dead }}</ref> On 11 June 2006, Moré was honored with a star on the Walk of Fame at [[Celia Cruz]] Park in [[Union City, New Jersey]], a heavily Cuban-American community<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.wpr.org/culture-cuban-choral-and-instrumental-music | title=The Culture Of Cuban Choral and Instrumental Music | first=Jonathan | last=Overby | work=[[Wisconsin Public Radio]] | date=November 29, 2014}}</ref><ref name=GoogleNews>{{cite news | last=Bartlett | first=Kay | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1129&dat=19770628&id=4kwNAAAAIBAJ&pg=4464,3136176 | title=Little Havana on the Hudson | work=[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]] | date=28 June 1977}}</ref><ref name=HavanaOnHudson>{{cite news | last=Hope | first=Bradley | url=http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=574&topicId=100020669&docId=l:413337263&start=1 | title=Havana on Hudson Reverberates After Castro's Operation | work=[[The New York Sun]] | date=2 August 2006 | quote=Several of the group's leaders sat in chairs around the union hall on a quiet street in Union City, N.J., a town minutes away from Manhattan that was once known as "Havana on the Hudson" | access-date=16 May 2011 | archive-date=24 February 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224065539/http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=574&topicId=100020669&docId=l:413337263&start=1 | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>Grenier, Guillermo J. [https://books.google.com/books?id=3XBcqhL_pKEC ''Miami now!: immigration, ethnicity, and social change'']; archived at [[Google Books]].</ref> that has hosted musical presentations and multimedia lectures on the singer.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.cubaencuentro.com/cartelera/agenda/con-su-permiso-beny-more-262176 | title=Con su permiso, Beny Moré | work=Cuba En Cuento | date=12 May 2011}}</ref>',
10 => 'Beny Moré appears as a character in the novel ''[[The Island of Eternal Love]] '' ([[Penguin Random House]], 2008), by [[Cuban Americans|Cuban-American]] writer [[Daína Chaviano]], who also concludes her novel with a chapter titled "[[Today as yesterday|Today as Yesterday]]", one of the best interpretations of this singer. Moré is also remembered in the 2006 film ''[[El Beny]]'', which is based on parts of his life, and includes new versions of his songs performed by musicians including [[Chucho Valdés]], Juan Formell and [[Orishas (band)|Orishas]].',
11 => '* ''Beny More Y Su Orquesta...'' (Palma, 1964)',
12 => '* ''Beny Moré En Vivo'' (Discmedi, 1995; recorded 1957)',
13 => '* ''Beny More Canta Boleros'' (Estudios EGREM, 2006; recorded 1953–1960)',
14 => '*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1VE56pc3Rk Video of Beny Moré and his Banda Gigante]',
15 => '{{Commons category|Beny Moré}}',
16 => '{{DEFAULTSORT:More, Beny}}'
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1 => ''''Bartolomé Maximiliano Moré Gutiérrez''' (24 August 1919 – 19 February 1963),<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|last=Whitefield|first=Mimi|date=2016-11-17|title=Benny Moré is still 'The Master of Rhythm' in his Cuban hometown|work=Miami Herald|url=https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/cuba/article115268928.html|access-date=2020-05-07}}</ref> better known as '''Benny Moré''' (also spelled '''Beny Moré'''), was a Cuban singer, bandleader and songwriter. Due to his fluid [[tenor]] voice and his great expressivity, he was known variously as "El Bárbaro del Ritmo"<ref name=":0" /> and "El Sonero Mayor".<ref>{{cite book | last=Radanovich | first=John | title=Wildman of Rhythm: The Life and Music of Benny Moré | date=2009 | publisher=[[University Press of Florida]] | isbn=9780813033938 | url=https://archive.org/details/wildmanofrhythml00rada }}</ref> Moré was a master of the {{lang|es|soneo}} – the art of vocal improvisation in [[son cubano]] – and many of his tunes developed this way.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Horn |first1=David |last2=Laing |first2=Dave |title=Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Part 2 Locations: Volumes III to VII |date=2005 |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |isbn=9780826474360 |page=90 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jTHaAAAAMAAJ |language=en}}</ref> He often took part in ''controversias'' (vocal duels) with other singers, including [[Cheo Marquetti]]<ref>{{cite book |title=Revista de revistas |date=1994 |publisher=Empresa Editora Revista de Revistas S.A |page=67 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U8EyAAAAYAAJ |language=es}}</ref> and [[Joseíto Fernández]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gómez Sotolongo |first1=Antonio |title=Al son son y al vino vino |date=2019 |publisher=Lulu |isbn=9780359403295 |page=133 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WNCJDwAAQBAJ |language=es}}</ref> Apart from ''son cubano'', Moré was a popular singer of [[guaracha]]s, [[Cha-cha-chá (music)|cha cha cha]], [[Mambo (music)|mambo]], [[son montuno]], and [[bolero]]s.<ref name=":0" />',
2 => '[[File:Cuba Cienfuegos BennyMore (www.pixinn.net).jpg|thumb|right|Bronze statue of Moré in [[Cienfuegos]]' Prado street]]',
3 => 'The eldest of 18 children, Moré was born in the town of [[Santa Isabel de las Lajas]] in the former [[Santa Clara Province]], current [[Cienfuegos Province]], in central Cuba. His parents were Virginia Moré and Silvestre Gutiérrez.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=▷ Biografía de Benny Moré - ¿QUIÉN FUE?|url=https://biografiadee.com/biografia-de-benny-more/|date=2019-07-18|website=Biografiadee.com|language=es|access-date=2020-05-07}}</ref> His maternal great-great grandfather, Ta Ramón Gundo Paredes (later changed to Ta Ramón Gundo Moré),<ref name=":1" /> was said to be the son of the king of a tribe in the [[Kingdom of Kongo]] who was captured by slave traders and sold to a Cuban plantation owner named Ramon Paredes and subsequently to another Cuban landowner named Conde Moré<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=Biografia de Beny More|url=http://www.americasalsa.com/biografias/beny_more.html|website=www.americasalsa.com|access-date=2020-05-07}}</ref> (Paredes/Moré was later liberated and died as a freeman at age 94.)',
4 => 'In [[Mexico City]], Moré made recordings for [[RCA Victor]], with [[Perez Prado]]: "[[Anabacoa]]", "Bonito y Sabroso", "Mucho Corazón", "Pachito Eché", "[[La Múcura]]", "Rabo y Oreja" and other numbers. He recorded "Dolor Karabalí", which Moré considered his best composition recorded with [[Pérez Prado]], one he never wanted to re-record, also his recording in Mexico with Rafael de Paz Orchestra of "Bonito y Sabroso" was never recorded again by Moré, even though his famous composition of the months prior to leaving Mexico became in time the theme of his big band in Cuba. Moré was always reluctant to record newer versions of his hit songs, as he thought "you don't fix what's not broken". Moré and Prado recorded 28 songs in total, mostly mambos.<ref name="Diaz">{{cite web | last=Díaz Ayala | first=Cristóbal | title=Benny Moré | url=http://latinpop.fiu.edu/SECCION04Mpt2.pdf | website=Encyclopedic Discography of Cuban Music 1925-1960 | publisher=[[Florida International University]] | date=May 2018}}</ref>',
5 => 'Moré also recorded with the orchestra of Mariano Mercerón: "Me Voy Pa'l Pueblo", "Desdichado", "Mucho Corazon", "Ensalada de Mambo", "Rumberos de Ayer" and "Encantado de la Vida" with "El Conjunto de Lalo Montane", a Colombian singer and composer, with which he recorded in Mexico, conforming a famous duo called "The Phantom Duet" or "Dueto Fantasma". He also recorded with Mexican orchestras, specially with the one directed by Rafael de Paz; they recorded "Yiri Yiri Bon", "La Culebra", "Mata Siguaraya", "[[Solamente Una Vez]]" and "Bonito y Sabroso", a mambo song where he praises the dancing skills of the Mexicans and claims that [[Mexico City]] and [[La Habana]] are sister cities. In this time Benny also recorded with the orchestra of Jesús "Chucho" Rodríguez. El "Chucho" was so impressed with Benny's musical ability that he referred to him as "El Bárbaro del Ritmo". ',
6 => '[[File:Pacho Alonso, La Lupe & Benny Moré.jpg|thumb|right|Moré (right) with [[La Lupe]] and [[Pacho Alonso]], {{Circa|1959}}. All three were signed to the [[RCA Victor]] subsidiary [[Discuba]].]]',
7 => 'Also in 1952, Moré was told that Duarte Brito was not taking Moré to certain Saturday engagements because Moré was black.<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=Benny More - Biografía, historia y legado musical {{!}} BuenaMusica.com|url=https://www.buenamusica.com/benny-more/biografia|website=www.buenamusica.com|language=es|access-date=2020-05-07}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Benny Moré "El Bárbaro del Ritmo", "El Príncipe del Mambo"|url=http://lasalsabrava.com/benny-more-el-barbaro-del-ritmo/|date=2014-04-02|website=La Salsa Brava|language=es-ES|access-date=2020-05-07}}</ref> Moré was furious and brought the issue up to the RCA Records agent in Cuba (Maurico Conde). When nothing was done, Moré decided to form his own orchestra.<ref name=":2" /> The first performance of Moré's Banda Gigante was in the CMQ radio program ''Cascabeles Candado'' on August 3, 1953.<ref>{{cite book | last=Martínez Rodríguez | first=Raúl | title=Benny Moré | date=1993 | publisher=Editorial Letras Cubanas | isbn=9591000855 | page=[https://archive.org/details/bennymore00mart/page/18 18] | language=es | url=https://archive.org/details/bennymore00mart/page/18 }}</ref> The original lineup featured Ignacio Cabrera "Cabrerita" (piano); Miguel Franca, Santiago Peñalver, Roberto Barreto, Celso Gómez and Virgilio Vixama (saxophones); [[Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros]], Rigoberto "Rabanito" Jiménez and Domingo Corbacho (trumpets); José Miguel Gómez (trombone); Alberto Limonta (double bass); Tabaquito (congas); Clemente Piquero "Chicho" (bongos); Rolando Laserie (drums), and Fernando Álvarez and Enrique Benitez (vocals).<ref name=Roy>{{cite book | last1=Roy | first1=Maya | title=Músicas cubanas | date=2003 | publisher=Akal | page=152 | isbn=9788446012344 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ylUYYWXumY8C | language=es}}</ref> The Banda was generally sixteen musicians, comparable in size with the orchestras of [[Xavier Cugat]] and [[Pérez Prado]]. Although Moré could not read music, he arranged material by singing parts to his arrangers, which included pianists Cabrerita and [[Peruchín]], as well as trombonist [[Generoso Jiménez]].<ref name=Roy/>',
8 => '[[File:5.12.11BennyMoréLectureByLuigiNovi1.jpg|thumb|right|A 12 May 2011 multimedia lecture on Moré in the heavily [[Cuban-American]] community of [[Union City, New Jersey]]]]',
9 => 'Moré has been cited as the greatest singer in Cuban music history by critics and musicians.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Steward |first1=Sue |title=Musica!: The Rhythm of Latin America - Salsa, Rumba, Merengue, and More |date=1999 |publisher=Chronicle Books |isbn=9780811825665 |page=32 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lz3QhnOaC14C |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Gerard |first1=Charley |title=Music from Cuba: Mongo Santamaría, Chocolate Armenteros, and Cuban Musicians in the United States |date=2001 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=9780275966829 |page=107 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cZH22u6_p50C |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Castañeda |first1=Angela Nicole |title="Veracruz También Es Caribe": Power, Politics, and Performance in the Making of an Afro-Caribbean Identity |date=2004 |publisher=Indiana University |page=92 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QEIeAQAAMAAJ |language=en}}</ref> In 1999, Moré was posthumously inducted into the [[International Latin Music Hall of Fame]] and the [[Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame]] in 2016.<ref>{{cite news|title=Draco Rosa y Miguel Luna al salón de la fama de los compositores latinos|url=http://www.orlandosentinel.com/elsentinel/os-es-draco-rosa-miguel-luna-salon-fama-compositores-latinos-20161014-story.html|access-date=December 22, 2017|work=Orlando Sentinel|date=October 15, 2016|language=es}}</ref> The [[Benny Moré Memorial Award]] was named in honor of the artist and was given to artists who were influential in Latin music.<ref>{{cite journal | last=de Fontenay | first=Sounni | title=International Latin Music Hall of Fame | journal=Latin American Rhythm Magazine | url=http://laritmo.com/mag/index.php3?id=253 | date=7 December 1998 | access-date=5 November 2015 | archive-date=18 October 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141018225223/http://laritmo.com/mag/index.php3?id=253 | url-status=dead }}</ref> On 11 June 2006, Moré was honored with a star on the Walk of Fame at [[Celia Cruz]] Park in [[Union City, New Jersey]], a heavily Cuban-American community<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.wpr.org/culture-cuban-choral-and-instrumental-music | title=The Culture Of Cuban Choral and Instrumental Music | first=Jonathan | last=Overby | work=[[Wisconsin Public Radio]] | date=November 29, 2014}}</ref><ref name=GoogleNews>{{cite news | last=Bartlett | first=Kay | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1129&dat=19770628&id=4kwNAAAAIBAJ&pg=4464,3136176 | title=Little Havana on the Hudson | work=[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]] | date=28 June 1977}}</ref><ref name=HavanaOnHudson>{{cite news | last=Hope | first=Bradley | url=http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=574&topicId=100020669&docId=l:413337263&start=1 | title=Havana on Hudson Reverberates After Castro's Operation | work=[[The New York Sun]] | date=2 August 2006 | quote=Several of the group's leaders sat in chairs around the union hall on a quiet street in Union City, N.J., a town minutes away from Manhattan that was once known as "Havana on the Hudson" | access-date=16 May 2011 | archive-date=24 February 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224065539/http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=574&topicId=100020669&docId=l:413337263&start=1 | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>Grenier, Guillermo J. [https://books.google.com/books?id=3XBcqhL_pKEC ''Miami now!: immigration, ethnicity, and social change'']; archived at [[Google Books]].</ref> that has hosted musical presentations and multimedia lectures on the singer.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.cubaencuentro.com/cartelera/agenda/con-su-permiso-benny-more-262176 | title=Con su permiso, Benny Moré | work=Cuba En Cuento | date=12 May 2011}}</ref>',
10 => 'Beny Moré appears as a character in the novel ''[[The Island of Eternal Love]] '' ([[Penguin Random House]], 2008), by [[Cuban Americans|Cuban-American]] writer [[Daína Chaviano]], who also concludes her novel with a chapter titled "[[Today as yesterday|Today as Yesterday]]", one of the best interpretations of this singer. Moré is also remembered in the 2006 film ''[[El Benny]]'', which is based on parts of his life, and includes new versions of his songs performed by musicians including [[Chucho Valdés]], Juan Formell and [[Orishas (band)|Orishas]].',
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<p><b>Bartolomé Maximiliano Moré Gutiérrez</b> (24 August 1919 – 19 February 1963),<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> better known as <b>Beny Moré</b> (also spelled <b>Beny Moré</b>), was a Cuban singer, bandleader and songwriter. Due to his fluid <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Tenor" title="Tenor">tenor</a> voice and his great expressivity, he was known variously as "El Bárbaro del Ritmo"<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and "El Sonero Mayor".<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Moré was a master of the <span title="Spanish-language text"><i lang="es">soneo</i></span> – the art of vocal improvisation in <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Son_cubano" title="Son cubano">son cubano</a> – and many of his tunes developed this way.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He often took part in <i>controversias</i> (vocal duels) with other singers, including <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Cheo_Marquetti" title="Cheo Marquetti">Cheo Marquetti</a><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Jose%C3%ADto_Fern%C3%A1ndez" title="Joseíto Fernández">Joseíto Fernández</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Apart from <i>son cubano</i>, Moré was a popular singer of <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Guaracha" title="Guaracha">guarachas</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Cha-cha-ch%C3%A1_(music)" title="Cha-cha-chá (music)">cha cha cha</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Mambo_(music)" title="Mambo (music)">mambo</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Son_montuno" title="Son montuno">son montuno</a>, and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Bolero" title="Bolero">boleros</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Moré started his career with the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Conjunto_Matamoros" class="mw-redirect" title="Conjunto Matamoros">Trío Matamoros</a> in the 1940s and after a tour in Mexico he decided to stay in the country. Both Moré and dancer <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Nin%C3%B3n_Sevilla" title="Ninón Sevilla">Ninón Sevilla</a> made their cinematic debut in 1946's <i>Carita de cielo</i>, but Moré focused on his music career. In the late 1940s, he sang guaracha-mambos with <a href="/enwiki/wiki/P%C3%A9rez_Prado" title="Pérez Prado">Pérez Prado</a>, achieving great success. Moré returned to Cuba in 1952 and worked with <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Bebo_Vald%C3%A9s" title="Bebo Valdés">Bebo Valdés</a> and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Ernesto_Duarte_Brito" title="Ernesto Duarte Brito">Ernesto Duarte</a>. In 1953, he formed the Banda Gigante, which became one of the leading Cuban big bands of the 1950s. He suffered from <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Alcoholism" title="Alcoholism">alcoholism</a> and died of <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Cirrhosis" title="Cirrhosis">liver cirrhosis</a> in 1963 at the age of 43.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:Error mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/enwiki//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Upload?wpDestFile=Cuba_Cienfuegos_BenyMore_(www.pixinn.net).jpg" class="new" title="File:Cuba Cienfuegos BenyMore (www.pixinn.net).jpg"><span class="mw-file-element mw-broken-media" data-width="180">File:Cuba Cienfuegos BenyMore (www.pixinn.net).jpg</span></a><figcaption>Bronze statue of Moré in <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Cienfuegos" title="Cienfuegos">Cienfuegos</a>' Prado street</figcaption></figure>
<p>The eldest of 18 children, Moré was born in the town of <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Santa_Isabel_de_las_Lajas" class="mw-redirect" title="Santa Isabel de las Lajas">Santa Isabel de las Lajas</a> in the former <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Santa_Clara_Province" title="Santa Clara Province">Santa Clara Province</a>, current <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Cienfuegos_Province" title="Cienfuegos Province">Cienfuegos Province</a>, in central Cuba. His parents were Virginia Moré and Silvestre Gutiérrez.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His maternal great-great grandfather, Ta Ramón Gundo Paredes (later changed to Ta Ramón Gundo Moré),<sup id="cite_ref-:1_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was said to be the son of the king of a tribe in the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Kingdom_of_Kongo" title="Kingdom of Kongo">Kingdom of Kongo</a> who was captured by slave traders and sold to a Cuban plantation owner named Ramon Paredes and subsequently to another Cuban landowner named Conde Moré<sup id="cite_ref-:1_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:2_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (Paredes/Moré was later liberated and died as a freeman at age 94.)
</p><p>As a child, Moré learned to play the guitar, making his first instrument at the age of six, according to his mother, from "a stick and a sardine can that served as the sound box".<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1936, at the age of 17, he left Las Lajas for <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Havana" title="Havana">Havana</a>, where he made a living by selling bruised and damaged fruits and vegetables and medicinal herbs. Six months later, he returned to Las Lajas and went to cut cane for a season with his brother Teodoro. With the money he earned and Teodoro's savings, Moré bought his first guitar in <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Mor%C3%B3n,_Cuba" title="Morón, Cuba">Morón</a>, Cuba.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:2_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<p>In 1940, Moré returned to Havana. He lived from hand-to-mouth, playing in bars and cafés, passing the hat. His first breakthrough was winning a radio competition. In the early 1940s, radio station <a href="/enwiki/wiki/CMQ_(Cuba)" title="CMQ (Cuba)">CMQ</a> had a program called <i>The Supreme Court of Art</i>, in which a wide variety of artists participated. Winners were given contracts by unscrupulous businessmen, who exploited them. The less fortunate were treated to the humiliation of a loud church bell that brutally terminated their performances.<sup id="cite_ref-Ra28_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ra28-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In his first appearance, Moré had scarcely begun to sing when the bell sounded, and he was booed off the stage.<sup id="cite_ref-Ra28_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ra28-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He later competed again and won first prize. He then landed his first stable job with the Conjunto Cauto led by Mozo Borgellá.<sup id="cite_ref-Ra28_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ra28-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also sang with success on the radio station CMZ with Lázaro Cordero's Sexteto Fígaro. In 1941, Moré made his debut on <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Radio_Mil_Diez" title="Radio Mil Diez">Radio Mil Diez</a>, performing with the Conjunto Cauto, directed by Mozo Borgella.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<p>Ciro Rodríguez, of the famed <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Tr%C3%ADo_Matamoros" class="mw-redirect" title="Trío Matamoros">Trío Matamoros</a>, heard Moré singing in the bar El Temple and was greatly impressed. In 1942, Conjunto Matamoros was engaged for a live performance for Radio Mil Diez. However, Miguel Matamoros was indisposed and asked Mozo Borgellá to lend him a singer. Borgellá sent Moré, who worked for several years with Conjunto Matamoros, making a number of recordings.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Moré replaced Miguel Matamoros as lead singer, and the latter dedicated himself to leading the band. On 21 June 1945, Moré went with Conjunto Matamoros to <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Mexico" title="Mexico">Mexico</a>, where he performed in two of the most famous cabarets: the Montparnasse and the Río Rosa. He made several recordings. Conjunto Matamoros returned to Havana, but Moré remained in Mexico. Rafael Cueto said to him: "Fine, but just remember that they call burros 'bartolo' here. Stay, but change your name." "Ok," replied Moré, "from now on my name is Beny, Beny Moré."<sup id="cite_ref-:2_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Moré was left penniless and got permission to work from the performing artists' union. With this, he was able to get a job at the Río Rosa, where he formed the Dueto Fantasma (also known as Dueto Antillano) with Lalo Montané, in December 1945.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Mexico_City" title="Mexico City">Mexico City</a>, Moré made recordings for <a href="/enwiki/wiki/RCA_Victor" class="mw-redirect" title="RCA Victor">RCA Victor</a>, with <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Perez_Prado" class="mw-redirect" title="Perez Prado">Perez Prado</a>: "<a href="/enwiki/wiki/Anabacoa" title="Anabacoa">Anabacoa</a>", "Bonito y Sabroso", "Mucho Corazón", "Pachito Eché", "<a href="/enwiki/wiki/La_M%C3%BAcura" title="La Múcura">La Múcura</a>", "Rabo y Oreja" and other numbers. He recorded "Dolor Karabalí", which Moré considered his best composition recorded with <a href="/enwiki/wiki/P%C3%A9rez_Prado" title="Pérez Prado">Pérez Prado</a>, one he never wanted to re-record, also his recording in Mexico with Rafael de Paz Orchestra of "Bonito y Sabroso" was never recorded again by Moré, even though his famous composition of the months prior to leaving Mexico became in time the theme of his big band in Cuba. Moré was always reluctant to record newer versions of his hit songs, as he thought "you don't fix what's not broken". Moré and Prado recorded 28 songs in total, mostly mambos.<sup id="cite_ref-Diaz_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Diaz-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Moré also recorded with the orchestra of Mariano Mercerón: "Me Voy Pa'l Pueblo", "Desdichado", "Mucho Corazon", "Ensalada de Mambo", "Rumberos de Ayer" and "Encantado de la Vida" with "El Conjunto de Lalo Montane", a Colombian singer and composer, with which he recorded in Mexico, conforming a famous duo called "The Phantom Duet" or "Dueto Fantasma". He also recorded with Mexican orchestras, specially with the one directed by Rafael de Paz; they recorded "Yiri Yiri Bon", "La Culebra", "Mata Siguaraya", "<a href="/enwiki/wiki/Solamente_Una_Vez" class="mw-redirect" title="Solamente Una Vez">Solamente Una Vez</a>" and "Bonito y Sabroso", a mambo song where he praises the dancing skills of the Mexicans and claims that <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Mexico_City" title="Mexico City">Mexico City</a> and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/La_Habana" class="mw-redirect" title="La Habana">La Habana</a> are sister cities. In this time Beny also recorded with the orchestra of Jesús "Chucho" Rodríguez. El "Chucho" was so impressed with Beny's musical ability that he referred to him as "El Bárbaro del Ritmo".
</p><p>Moré and other performers such as <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Amalia_Aguilar" title="Amalia Aguilar">Amalia Aguilar</a> appeared as themselves in the Ernesto Cortázar-directed 1949 film <i>En cada puerto un amor</i>, a film in the musical comedy and drama genres.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/File:Beny_Mor%C3%A9_y_su_Orquesta_Gigante.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Beny_Mor%C3%A9_y_su_Orquesta_Gigante.jpg/220px-Beny_Mor%C3%A9_y_su_Orquesta_Gigante.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="126" class="mw-file-element" srcset="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Beny_Mor%C3%A9_y_su_Orquesta_Gigante.jpg/330px-Beny_Mor%C3%A9_y_su_Orquesta_Gigante.jpg 1.5x, /upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Beny_Mor%C3%A9_y_su_Orquesta_Gigante.jpg/440px-Beny_Mor%C3%A9_y_su_Orquesta_Gigante.jpg 2x" data-file-width="970" data-file-height="557" /></a><figcaption>Moré and his "Orquesta Gigante" at <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Radio_Progreso" title="Radio Progreso">Radio Progreso</a> in the late 1950s</figcaption></figure>
<p>During the spring of 1952, around April, Moré returned to Cuba. He was a star in Mexico, the Dominican Republic, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Panama" title="Panama">Panama</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Colombia" title="Colombia">Colombia</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil">Brazil</a> and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Puerto_Rico" title="Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a>, but virtually unknown on the island. His first Cuban recordings were with Mariano Mercerón & his Orchestra, including songs such as "Fiesta de Tambores", "Salomón", "La Chola", among others. Moré began alternating between performances in the Cadena Oriental radio station and trips to Havana to record at the RCA studios in CMQ Radiocentro.
</p><p>In Havana, Moré worked for the radio station <a href="/enwiki/wiki/RHC-Cadena_Azul" title="RHC-Cadena Azul">RHC-Cadena Azul</a>, with the orchestra of Bebo Valdés, who introduced the new style called "batanga". The presenter of the show, Ibraín Urbino, presented him as <i>El Bárbaro del Ritmo.</i> They offered him the opportunity to record with <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Sonora_Matancera" title="Sonora Matancera">Sonora Matancera</a>, but he declined the offer because he did not care for the sound of the group. After the batanga fell out of fashion, Moré was contracted by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Radio_Progreso" title="Radio Progreso">Radio Progreso</a> with the orchestra of Ernesto Duarte Brito. In addition to the radio, he also performed at dances, cabarets and parties. When he sang in Havana's <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Great_Theatre_of_Havana" class="mw-redirect" title="Great Theatre of Havana">Centro Gallego</a>, people filled the sidewalks and the gardens of the Capitolio to hear him. In 1952, Moré made a recording with the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Orquesta_Arag%C3%B3n" title="Orquesta Aragón">Orquesta Aragón</a> with whom he would perform in dance halls. Orquesta Aragón was from <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Cienfuegos" title="Cienfuegos">Cienfuegos</a> and was having trouble breaking into Havana and Moré helped them in this way.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Banda_Gigante">Banda Gigante</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Benny_Mor%C3%A9&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Banda Gigante"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div>
<figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:Error mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/enwiki//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Upload?wpDestFile=Pacho_Alonso,_La_Lupe_%26_Beny_Mor%C3%A9.jpg" class="new" title="File:Pacho Alonso, La Lupe & Beny Moré.jpg"><span class="mw-file-element mw-broken-media" data-width="180">File:Pacho Alonso, La Lupe & Beny Moré.jpg</span></a><figcaption>Moré (right) with <a href="/enwiki/wiki/La_Lupe" title="La Lupe">La Lupe</a> and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Pacho_Alonso" title="Pacho Alonso">Pacho Alonso</a>, <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1959</span>. All three were signed to the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/RCA_Victor" class="mw-redirect" title="RCA Victor">RCA Victor</a> subsidiary <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Discuba" title="Discuba">Discuba</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p>Also in 1952, Moré was told that Duarte Brito was not taking Moré to certain Saturday engagements because Moré was black.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_7-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Moré was furious and brought the issue up to the RCA Records agent in Cuba (Maurico Conde). When nothing was done, Moré decided to form his own orchestra.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_7-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first performance of Moré's Banda Gigante was in the CMQ radio program <i>Cascabeles Candado</i> on August 3, 1953.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The original lineup featured Ignacio Cabrera "Cabrerita" (piano); Miguel Franca, Santiago Peñalver, Roberto Barreto, Celso Gómez and Virgilio Vixama (saxophones); <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Alfredo_%22Chocolate%22_Armenteros" title="Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros">Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros</a>, Rigoberto "Rabanito" Jiménez and Domingo Corbacho (trumpets); José Miguel Gómez (trombone); Alberto Limonta (double bass); Tabaquito (congas); Clemente Piquero "Chicho" (bongos); Rolando Laserie (drums), and Fernando Álvarez and Enrique Benitez (vocals).<sup id="cite_ref-Roy_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Roy-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Banda was generally sixteen musicians, comparable in size with the orchestras of <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Xavier_Cugat" title="Xavier Cugat">Xavier Cugat</a> and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/P%C3%A9rez_Prado" title="Pérez Prado">Pérez Prado</a>. Although Moré could not read music, he arranged material by singing parts to his arrangers, which included pianists Cabrerita and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Peruch%C3%ADn" title="Peruchín">Peruchín</a>, as well as trombonist <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Generoso_Jim%C3%A9nez" title="Generoso Jiménez">Generoso Jiménez</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Roy_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Roy-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Between the years 1953 and 1955, the Banda Gigante became immensely popular. Their first recording session took place in November 1953, which included the hit "Manzanillo". Other hits followed, including self-penned songs such as "<a href="/enwiki/wiki/Mi_saoco" title="Mi saoco">Mi saoco</a>", "Santa Isabel de las Lajas", "Cienfuegos" and "Dolor y perdón".<sup id="cite_ref-Diaz_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Diaz-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1956 and 1957, they toured Dominican Republic, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela">Venezuela</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Jamaica" title="Jamaica">Jamaica</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Haiti" title="Haiti">Haiti</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Colombia" title="Colombia">Colombia</a>, Panama, Mexico, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Puerto_Rico" title="Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a> and the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>, where the group played at the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Academy_Awards" title="Academy Awards">Academy Awards</a>. In Havana, they played at a multitude of dance halls and cabarets such as the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Tropicana_Club" title="Tropicana Club">Tropicana Club</a>, La Campana, El Sierra, Night and Day, Alí Bar Club, and the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hotel_Habana_Riviera" title="Hotel Habana Riviera">Hotel Habana Riviera</a> and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hotel_Tryp_Habana_Libre" class="mw-redirect" title="Hotel Tryp Habana Libre">Hotel Tryp Habana Libre</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Moré was offered a tour of <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/France" title="France">France</a> in particular, but he rejected it because of his <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Fear_of_flying" title="Fear of flying">fear of flying</a>; he had by that time been in three airplane accidents.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Final_years">Final years</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Benny_Mor%C3%A9&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Final years"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div>
<p>In the aftermath of the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Cuban_Revolution" title="Cuban Revolution">Cuban Revolution</a>, many of Cuba's top musical figures emigrated, but Moré stayed in Cuba, among, as he said, "mi gente" (my people).
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Benny_Mor%C3%A9&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div>
<p>Moré suffered from <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Alcoholism" title="Alcoholism">alcoholism</a> and died of <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Cirrhosis" title="Cirrhosis">cirrhosis</a> of the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Liver" title="Liver">liver</a> in 1963 at the age of 43. His funeral was attended by tens of thousands of people.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:Error mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/enwiki//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Upload?wpDestFile=5.12.11BenyMor%C3%A9LectureByLuigiNovi1.jpg" class="new" title="File:5.12.11BenyMoréLectureByLuigiNovi1.jpg"><span class="mw-file-element mw-broken-media" data-width="180">File:5.12.11BenyMoréLectureByLuigiNovi1.jpg</span></a><figcaption>A 12 May 2011 multimedia lecture on Moré in the heavily <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Cuban-American" class="mw-redirect" title="Cuban-American">Cuban-American</a> community of <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Union_City,_New_Jersey" title="Union City, New Jersey">Union City, New Jersey</a></figcaption></figure>
<p>Moré has been cited as the greatest singer in Cuban music history by critics and musicians.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1999, Moré was posthumously inducted into the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/International_Latin_Music_Hall_of_Fame" title="International Latin Music Hall of Fame">International Latin Music Hall of Fame</a> and the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Latin_Songwriters_Hall_of_Fame" title="Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame">Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame</a> in 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Beny_Mor%C3%A9_Memorial_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Beny Moré Memorial Award">Beny Moré Memorial Award</a> was named in honor of the artist and was given to artists who were influential in Latin music.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 11 June 2006, Moré was honored with a star on the Walk of Fame at <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Celia_Cruz" title="Celia Cruz">Celia Cruz</a> Park in <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Union_City,_New_Jersey" title="Union City, New Jersey">Union City, New Jersey</a>, a heavily Cuban-American community<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-GoogleNews_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GoogleNews-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-HavanaOnHudson_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HavanaOnHudson-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> that has hosted musical presentations and multimedia lectures on the singer.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Benny_Mor%C3%A9&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div>
<p>Beny Moré appears as a character in the novel <i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/The_Island_of_Eternal_Love" title="The Island of Eternal Love">The Island of Eternal Love</a> </i> (<a href="/enwiki/wiki/Penguin_Random_House" title="Penguin Random House">Penguin Random House</a>, 2008), by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Cuban_Americans" title="Cuban Americans">Cuban-American</a> writer <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Da%C3%ADna_Chaviano" title="Daína Chaviano">Daína Chaviano</a>, who also concludes her novel with a chapter titled "<a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Today_as_yesterday&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Today as yesterday (page does not exist)">Today as Yesterday</a>", one of the best interpretations of this singer. Moré is also remembered in the 2006 film <i><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=El_Beny&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="El Beny (page does not exist)">El Beny</a></i>, which is based on parts of his life, and includes new versions of his songs performed by musicians including <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Chucho_Vald%C3%A9s" title="Chucho Valdés">Chucho Valdés</a>, Juan Formell and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Orishas_(band)" title="Orishas (band)">Orishas</a>.
</p><p>Numerous <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Tribute_album" class="mw-redirect" title="Tribute album">tribute albums</a> consisting of <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Cover_version" title="Cover version">cover versions</a> of Moré's songs have been released by artists such as <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Tito_Puente" title="Tito Puente">Tito Puente</a> (1978, 1979 and 1985), Charanga de la 4 (1981), Bobby Carcassés (1985), Tropicana All-Stars (2004) and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Jon_Secada" title="Jon Secada">Jon Secada</a> (2017).<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Selected_discography">Selected discography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Benny_Mor%C3%A9&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Selected discography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div>
<p>Records from 1963 onwards include at least one or more unreleased songs.
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<ul><li><i>El Inigualable</i> (Discuba, 1957)</li>
<li><i>The Most From Beny Moré</i> (Victor, 1958; recorded 1955–1957)</li>
<li><i>Así es...</i> (Victor, 1958)</li>
<li><i>Pare... que llegó el bárbaro</i> (Victor/Discuba, 1958)</li>
<li><i>Así es... Beny</i> (Discuba, 1958)</li>
<li><i>La Época de Oro</i> (Victor, 1958)</li>
<li><i>Magia antillana</i> (Victor, 1960; recorded 1949–1953)</li>
<li><i>El Barbaro del Ritmo</i> with <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Perez_Prado" class="mw-redirect" title="Perez Prado">Perez Prado</a> and <a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Rafael_De_Paz&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rafael De Paz (page does not exist)">Rafael De Paz</a> (Victor, 1962; recorded 1949–1951)</li>
<li><i>Homenaje póstumo</i> (Discuba, 1963; recorded 1960)</li>
<li><i>Beny More Y Su Orquesta...</i> (Palma, 1964)</li>
<li><i>Recordando</i> (RCA Camden, 1964)</li>
<li><i>Lo Mejor de Beny Moré</i> (RCA, 1965)</li>
<li><i>La Época De Oro Vol.II</i> (RCA, 1969)</li>
<li><i>y Su Salsa de Siempre</i> (RCA, 1978)</li>
<li><i>Grandes Exitos</i> (Darcole Music, 1979)</li>
<li><i>Ensalada De Mambo</i> (RCA, 1980)</li>
<li><i>Lo Último Que Cantó Beny More</i> (Integra, 1980)</li>
<li><i>Lo Desconocido De Beny More</i> (RCA, 1982)</li>
<li><i>Cubanísimo-1</i> with <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Tr%C3%ADo_Matamoros" class="mw-redirect" title="Trío Matamoros">Trío Matamoros</a> and <a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Ernesto_Duarte&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ernesto Duarte (page does not exist)">Ernesto Duarte</a>'s orchestra (Producciones Preludio, 1983; recorded 1945–1947)</li>
<li><i>Leyendas Musicales</i> (Producciones Preludio, 1986)</li>
<li><i>Beny Moré Canta Con...</i> (RCA, 1988)</li>
<li><i>Conjunto Matamoros With Beny Moré</i> with <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Conjunto_Matamoros" class="mw-redirect" title="Conjunto Matamoros">Conjunto Matamoros</a> (Tumbao Cuban Classics, 1992; recorded 1945–1947)</li>
<li><i>El Barbaro del Ritmo</i> with <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Perez_Prado" class="mw-redirect" title="Perez Prado">Perez Prado</a> (Tumbao Cuban Classics, 1992; recorded 1949–1951)</li>
<li><i>Beny Moré En Vivo</i> (Discmedi, 1995; recorded 1957)</li>
<li><i>Beny More Canta Boleros</i> (Estudios EGREM, 2006; recorded 1953–1960)</li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRadanovich2009" class="citation book cs1">Radanovich, John (2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/wildmanofrhythml00rada"><i>Wildman of Rhythm: The Life and Music of Beny Moré</i></a>. <a href="/enwiki/wiki/University_Press_of_Florida" title="University Press of Florida">University Press of Florida</a>. <a href="/enwiki/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780813033938" title="Special:BookSources/9780813033938"><bdi>9780813033938</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Wildman+of+Rhythm%3A+The+Life+and+Music+of+Beny+Mor%C3%A9&rft.pub=University+Press+of+Florida&rft.date=2009&rft.isbn=9780813033938&rft.aulast=Radanovich&rft.aufirst=John&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fwildmanofrhythml00rada&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABenny+Mor%C3%A9" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHornLaing2005" class="citation book cs1">Horn, David; Laing, Dave (2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=jTHaAAAAMAAJ"><i>Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Part 2 Locations: Volumes III to VII</i></a>. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 90. <a href="/enwiki/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780826474360" title="Special:BookSources/9780826474360"><bdi>9780826474360</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Continuum+Encyclopedia+of+Popular+Music+of+the+World+Part+2+Locations%3A+Volumes+III+to+VII&rft.pages=90&rft.pub=Bloomsbury+Academic&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=9780826474360&rft.aulast=Horn&rft.aufirst=David&rft.au=Laing%2C+Dave&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DjTHaAAAAMAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABenny+Mor%C3%A9" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=U8EyAAAAYAAJ"><i>Revista de revistas</i></a> (in Spanish). Empresa Editora Revista de Revistas S.A. 1994. p. 67.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Revista+de+revistas&rft.pages=67&rft.pub=Empresa+Editora+Revista+de+Revistas+S.A&rft.date=1994&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DU8EyAAAAYAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABenny+Mor%C3%A9" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGómez_Sotolongo2019" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Gómez Sotolongo, Antonio (2019). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=WNCJDwAAQBAJ"><i>Al son son y al vino vino</i></a> (in Spanish). Lulu. p. 133. <a href="/enwiki/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780359403295" title="Special:BookSources/9780359403295"><bdi>9780359403295</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Al+son+son+y+al+vino+vino&rft.pages=133&rft.pub=Lulu&rft.date=2019&rft.isbn=9780359403295&rft.aulast=G%C3%B3mez+Sotolongo&rft.aufirst=Antonio&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DWNCJDwAAQBAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABenny+Mor%C3%A9" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-:1-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:1_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:1_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:1_6-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://biografiadee.com/biografia-de-beny-more/">"▷ Biografía de Beny Moré - ¿QUIÉN FUE?"</a>. <i>Biografiadee.com</i> (in Spanish). 18 July 2019<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">7 May</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Biografiadee.com&rft.atitle=%E2%96%B7+Biograf%C3%ADa+de+Beny+Mor%C3%A9+-+%C2%BFQUI%C3%89N+FUE%3F&rft.date=2019-07-18&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbiografiadee.com%2Fbiografia-de-beny-more%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABenny+Mor%C3%A9" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-:2-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:2_7-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:2_7-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:2_7-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:2_7-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:2_7-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:2_7-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.americasalsa.com/biografias/beny_more.html">"Biografia de Beny More"</a>. <i>www.americasalsa.com</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">7 May</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=www.americasalsa.com&rft.atitle=Biografia+de+Beny+More&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.americasalsa.com%2Fbiografias%2Fbeny_more.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABenny+Mor%C3%A9" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Radanovich (2009), p. 19.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-Ra28-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Ra28_9-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Ra28_9-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Ra28_9-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Radanovich (2009), p. 28.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Radanovich (2009), p. 31.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Radanovich (2009), p. 45.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-Diaz-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Diaz_12-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Diaz_12-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDíaz_Ayala2018" class="citation web cs1">Díaz Ayala, Cristóbal (May 2018). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://latinpop.fiu.edu/SECCION04Mpt2.pdf">"Beny Moré"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i>Encyclopedic Discography of Cuban Music 1925-1960</i>. <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Florida_International_University" title="Florida International University">Florida International University</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Encyclopedic+Discography+of+Cuban+Music+1925-1960&rft.atitle=Beny+Mor%C3%A9&rft.date=2018-05&rft.aulast=D%C3%ADaz+Ayala&rft.aufirst=Crist%C3%B3bal&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Flatinpop.fiu.edu%2FSECCION04Mpt2.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABenny+Mor%C3%A9" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0146673/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast">"En cada puerto un amor"</a>, IMDb.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Rafael Lim, "Beny Moré in Film", <i>CUBANOW</i>, Susana Hurlich, translator.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.buenamusica.com/bnny-more/biografia">"Beny More - Biografía, historia y legado musical | BuenaMusica.com"</a>. <i>www.buenamusica.com</i> (in Spanish)<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">7 May</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=www.buenamusica.com&rft.atitle=Beny+More+-+Biograf%C3%ADa%2C+historia+y+legado+musical+%7C+BuenaMusica.com&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.buenamusica.com%2Fbnny-more%2Fbiografia&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABenny+Mor%C3%A9" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://lasalsabrava.com/beny-more-el-barbaro-del-ritmo/">"Beny Moré "El Bárbaro del Ritmo", "El Príncipe del Mambo"<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span>"</a>. <i>La Salsa Brava</i> (in European Spanish). 2 April 2014<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">7 May</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=La+Salsa+Brava&rft.atitle=Beny+Mor%C3%A9+%22El+B%C3%A1rbaro+del+Ritmo%22%2C+%22El+Pr%C3%ADncipe+del+Mambo%22&rft.date=2014-04-02&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Flasalsabrava.com%2Fbeny-more-el-barbaro-del-ritmo%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABenny+Mor%C3%A9" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMartínez_Rodríguez1993" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Martínez Rodríguez, Raúl (1993). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/benymore00mart/page/18"><i>Beny Moré</i></a> (in Spanish). Editorial Letras Cubanas. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/benymore00mart/page/18">18</a>. <a href="/enwiki/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Special:BookSources/9591000855" title="Special:BookSources/9591000855"><bdi>9591000855</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Beny+Mor%C3%A9&rft.pages=18&rft.pub=Editorial+Letras+Cubanas&rft.date=1993&rft.isbn=9591000855&rft.aulast=Mart%C3%ADnez+Rodr%C3%ADguez&rft.aufirst=Ra%C3%BAl&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fbenymore00mart%2Fpage%2F18&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABenny+Mor%C3%A9" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-Roy-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Roy_18-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Roy_18-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRoy2003" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Roy, Maya (2003). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ylUYYWXumY8C"><i>Músicas cubanas</i></a> (in Spanish). Akal. p. 152. <a href="/enwiki/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Special:BookSources/9788446012344" title="Special:BookSources/9788446012344"><bdi>9788446012344</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=M%C3%BAsicas+cubanas&rft.pages=152&rft.pub=Akal&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=9788446012344&rft.aulast=Roy&rft.aufirst=Maya&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DylUYYWXumY8C&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABenny+Mor%C3%A9" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Martínez Rodríguez (1993), p. 22.</span>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.discogs.com/artist/129658">Benny Moré</a> discography at <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Discogs" title="Discogs">Discogs</a></li>
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<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1VE56pc3Rk">Video of Beny Moré and his Banda Gigante</a></li></ul>
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Unix timestamp of change (timestamp) | '1734362554' |
