Biography
Abelardo Valdés
Real name: Ernesto Abelardo Valdés de la Cantera
Cuban musician (contrabass), composer and conductor of the Orquesta Almendra, Ernesto Abelardo Valdés was one of the most important danzoneros in Cuban musical history. He was born on November 7, 1911, in Havana, in the middle of a family of rhythms and melodies. He died 47 years later as the musician who made the danzón known in the world, on December 9, 1958.