Mambo King 'Cachao' has died

Israel "Cachao" Lopez, the Cuban bassist and composer who is credited with pioneering the mambo style of music, died Saturday at a Miami-area hospital. He was 89.
Cachao and his late brother, multi-instrumentalist Orestes "Macho" Lopez, are known for the creation in the late 1930s of the mambo.
The mambo, with its sped-up syncopation, was popularized by bandleader Damaso Perez Prado, and Cuban composers and jazz musicians have tweaked it over the years. It also influenced the development of salsa music, a New York hybrid with Cuban roots.
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