About Beny Moré
Artist Biography
One of the pillars of popular music in Cuba, Beny Moré was noted for both his vocal virtuosity and his direct emotional appeal, whether delivering boleros or hip-shaking mambos and rhumbas. While known for a range of styles, his distinctiveness also lay in his synthesis of two of the major currents of Cuban song: Afro-Cuban son and the Spanish-derived guajiro music of the Cuban countryside. Moré composed two of his signature hits, "Bonito y Sabroso" (1950) and "Que Bueno Baila Usted" (1957), and he doubled as a bandleader with a powerful group that represented the quintessential Afro-Cuban big-band sound of the 1950s: brash, multi-textured, and dynamic.
Hometown
Santa Isabel de las Lajas, Cuba
Genre
Latin
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