Abelardo Valdés

Cuban musician (contrabass), composer and conductor of the [a973502], 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.