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Subject: Mambo creator 'Cachao' dies at 89
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/23/08 at 11:20 am
Full Report on BBC News Online
Cuban-born jazz musician Israel "Cachao" Lopez, credited with inventing the mambo, has died in Miami at the age of 89.
The bassist and composer left Cuba for the US in the early 1960s and continued to perform until his final months.
The mambo emerged from his improvisational work with his late brother, multi-instrumentalist Orestes Lopez, in the late 1930s.
A family spokesman said Lopez died with his relatives around him.
He had fallen ill in the past week and died at Coral Gable Hospital, the spokesman added.