Edmundo Ros - The Latin World Of Edmundo Ros Vol 2

Styles: Latin
Year: 1970/2015
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 28:46
Size: 67,4 MB
Art: Front

(2:49)  1. Aquarius
(2:23)  2. Corcovado
(2:05)  3. Cumana
(2:10)  4. Carnival
(2:14)  5. La Golondrina
(2:00)  6. Spanish Flea
(2:22)  7. Good Morning Starshine
(2:16)  8. Mambo Number Five
(2:49)  9. What A Difference A Day Made
(3:10) 10. Felicidade
(2:19) 11. The Laughing Samba
(2:04) 12. La Cucaracha

Bandleader Edmundo Ros was the living embodiment of Latin music in World War II-era Britain. The toast of London's high society, he effectively introduced the rhumba and samba to the U.K. shores. Born December 7, 1910, in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, to a Scottish father and an African-Venezuelan mother, Ros spent much of his childhood in military school, playing percussion in the military band. The experience was otherwise miserable, however, and at 17 he ran away to Caracas, where he served as tympanist in the Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela. A decade later Ros migrated to London, where he briefly studied classical music before pursuing popular music full-time, backing Fats Waller and singing with Don Marino Barreto's Cuban band prior to forming his own five-piece rhumba outfit in 1940. After scoring a hit with 1941's Parlophone release "Los Hijos de Buda," Ros became a sensation, attracting the cream of London society to his appearances at the lavish Coconut Grove. When the defendant in a high-profile divorce case implicated Ros as a catalyst for his marriage's demise, the bandleader made national headlines, and the sex scandal only made him more popular, and he even taught then-Princess Elizabeth and her sister Princess Margaret to dance. After a long residency at the West End club the Bagatelle, Ros in 1951 acquired the former Coconut Grove site on Regent Street and renamed the venue Edmundo Ros' Dinner and Supper Club. He also made regular appearances on BBC radio, and his albums for the London label's Phase 4 imprint (including the space age pop classics Rhythms of the South and Arriba!) sold briskly. His biggest hit, "The Wedding Samba," even crossed over to the U.S. Top Five, selling three million copies in the process. After Parliament legalized gambling in 1965, attendance at Ros' club quickly nosedived, and he sold the business as soon as possible. He retired to Alicante, Spain, a decade later, returning to London's Queen Elizabeth Hall on January 8, 1994, for one final farewell performance leading the BBC Big Band with Strings. Ros was also awarded the Order of the British Empire in the 2000 New Year's Honours List. ~ Jason Ankeny https://www.allmusic.com/artist/edmundo-ros-mn0000182902/biography

The Latin World Of Edmundo Ros Vol  2

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Edmundo Ros and his Rumba Band - Cuban Love Song

Styles: Latin
Year: 1945
File: MP3@224K/s
Time: 52:59
Size: 86,5 MB
Art: Front

(2:30)  1. Negra consentida
(2:26)  2. Brazil
(2:57)  3. Rio de Janeiro
(2:38)  4. Mexico
(3:02)  5. Baia
(3:08)  6. The 3 Caballeros
(2:54)  7. Jesusita en Chihuahua
(2:59)  8. In chi chi Castenango
(3:12)  9. Rum & limonada
(3:15) 10. I'm crazy for you
(2:35) 11. Dengozo
(2:47) 12. Good good good
(3:13) 13. No can do
(2:42) 14. Cancion Cubana
(3:10) 15. Tell me again
(3:20) 16. Quimbamba
(3:09) 17. Chico Chico
(2:54) 18. The Parrot

Edmundo Ros , born Edmundo William Ros , ( Port of Spain , 7 December 1910 - Alicante , 21 October 2011 ), was a trinidadiano- born British singer , arranger and conductor who spent his entire career in Great Britain . He conducted a Latin American orchestra that was very popular and performed an intense activity in recording records. Born in Port of Spain, in Trinidad to a Venezuelan black mother and a father of Scottish descent , Edmundo was the eldest of four children: his sisters, Ruby and Eleonora, followed by his half-brother Hugo, an illegitimate son.  His parents separated after Hugo's birth, due to the fact that his wife badly accepted the betrayal of her husband, and after some missteps Edmundo was enrolled in a military academy . Li became interested in music and learned to play the bombardino . In the period 1927-1937 his family lived in Caracas , Venezuela . He was inserted into theBand of the Military Academy of Venezuela and at the same time entered the staff of the Venezuela Symphony Orchestra as a timpani player . Subsequently he received a scholarship from the government, and in the period 1937-1942 he studied harmony , composition and orchestration at the Royal Academy of Music in London.  At the same time, he was a singer and percussionist in the band of Don Marino Barreto at the Embassy Club and recorded numerous pieces together with Fats Waller who was visiting London in 1938. At the age of 90, in 2000 New Year's Honors List , Ros was named a Knight of the Order of the British Empire . He turned 100 in December 2010.  Ros is an honorary citizen of the city of London and Freemason , member of the Lodge Sprig of Acacia n. 41, of Jávea , Spain . He married twice: the first time with Britt Johansen in 1950 and the second with Susan in 1971. From the first marriage he had two children, Douglas and Louisa. https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmundo_Ros

Cuban Love Song

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