Compilation of the late 50s and early 60s recordings by this unique singer and showman from Cuba, a contemporary of P\u00e9rez Prado, Cachao and Mongo Santamar\u00eda. Includes his famous ska\/mambo crossover hit ‘El jamaiquino’. Francisco Fellove Vald\u00e9s was born on October 7, 1923 in the Barrio Col\u00f3n, Havana. When Fellove was a kid, he would walk through the streets of downtown Havana with a drum and scat. He met Chano Pozo and the young singer Armando Borcela “Guapacha” in his neighbourhood. “Also,” Fellove remembers, “I played the guitar and sang with the Ni\u00f1o Rivera.” That’s how he composed ‘Mango mangu?\u00e9’ when he was 16, in Ni\u00f1o Rivera’s house. The first musician to record the song was the singer Miguelito Vald\u00e9s. Celia Cruz, Tito Puente, the flautist Johnny Pacheco and Aldemaro Romero also recorded it. “Then came ‘El jamaiquino’, another song I made with El Ni\u00f1o.” These two historic songs are included in this collection – recorded by Fellove himself in Mexico City. He was invited to many radio and TV programs like Show de Mediod\u00eda on CMQ with the Conjunto Casino, which featured Patato Vald\u00e9s and Roberto Faz. He also sang on radio station Mil Diez and with the orchestra of the pianist Julio Guti\u00e9rrez on Channel 4 and on Cadena Azul. It’s probably less well known that Fellove was involved in the first weekend gatherings of singers and composers at Angelito Diaz’s house in the Callej\u00f3n de Hamel and also at Celia Cruz’s house in the Buena Vista neighbourhood during the week. This is the beginning of a movement that would be known as Feeling, with Ni\u00f1o Rivera, C\u00e9sar Portillo de la Luz, Olga Guillot, Omara Portuondo, Elena Burke, Aida Diestro, Jos\u00e9 Antonio M\u00e9ndez\u2026 In 1952, Fellove participated in the first great jam session recorded in Havana for the Panart label: “Cuban Jam Sessions”. On December 1955, Fellove travelled to Mexico City. He made his debut at Roberto Morales’s Bar Latino with Jos\u00e9 Antonio M\u00e9ndez before going to the El Burro club with the Orquesta Am\u00e9rica. He recorded a few 45s and six LPs for RCA Victor. The artistic director of RCA was the pianist and songwriter Mario Ruiz Armengol, who did a few arrangements for Fellove and lent him his orchestra for the recording sessions. So, beginning with his Havana scat, in which he expressed Cuba’s musical soul, the chua-chua was born in Mexico City. Along with Hector Batamba he organized a sextet with Lalo Montaner on the flute, Ra\u00fal Cerda on the piano, Hector Leal on the gu?iro, “El Lobo” on the drums and “El Rat\u00f3n” on bass. After recording for RCA Victor (from September 1956 to September 1957) the group broke up when Batamba went to Europe. Fellove formed a new band: “I had invented the chua-chua, a kind of scat. In my group, Lobo and Mel\u00f3n did the choruses.” In this compilation we discover Fellove’s guarachera facet along with the best examples of his career in chuachua, but also some very original versions of the classics of Mexican music (‘Te quiero coraz\u00f3n’, ‘Baile el minuet’) and of Puerto Rican music (‘Cortaron a Elena’). Even more surprising is his interpretation of a R\u00edo de la Plata classic, ‘Los ejes de mi carreta’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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