Armando Oréfiche Explained

Armando Oréfiche (Havana, Cuba 5 June 1911 – Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, December 2000)[1] was a Cuban composer and pianist in the mid-20th century.

Oréfiche was one of many artists who played with the Lecuona Cuban Boys between 1935 and 1938.[2]

Oréfiche led the Armando Oréfiche and his Havana Cuban Boys band, a ballroom rumba band, until the 1980s when they dissolved. Oréfiche subsequently took a position as pianist at the five-star Hotel Reina Isabel of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Encuentro – Semblanzas – Fallece a los 89 años Armando Oréfiche. arch.cubaencuentro.com. 22 July 2018.
  2. Web site: Composers and Lyricists Database. . 2009-02-08 . Big Bands Database Plus. . 1988 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090107014012/http://www.nfo.net/cal//tl2.html. 7 January 2009 . live.