Bartolomé Maximiliano Moré Gutiérrez

(El Beny Moré)

• "Cómo fue"
• "Bonito y sabroso"
• "Santa Isabel de las Lajas", son montuno
• "Qué bueno baila usted", son montuno
• "Cienfuegos", guajira
• "Se te cayó el tabaco", guaracha
• "Locas por el mambo", mambo
• "Conocí la paz", bolero
• "Dolor y perdón", bolero
• "Mi amor fugaz", bolero
• "No te atrevas", bolero
• "De la rumba al cha-cha-chá", rumba
• "Rumberos de ayer"

Moré was given a variety of nicknames, including el Bárbaro del Ritmo (the "wildman of the rhythm").

Beny (sometimes Benny) Moré (August 24, 1919 – February 19, 1963) is considered by many fans of Cuban music as the greatest Cuban singer of all time. He was gifted with an innate musicality and fluid tenor voice which he colored and phrased with great expressivity. Moré was a master all the genres of Cuban music, including son montuno, mambo, guaracha, guajira, cha cha cha, Afro-Cuban, canción, guaguancó, and bolero.

The eldest of eighteen children, Moré was born Bartolomé Moré in Santa Isabel de las Lajas in the former province of Las Villas in central Cuba.

His maternal great-great grandfather, Ta Ramón Gundo Paredes, was said to be the son of the king of a tribe in the Congo who was captured by slave traders and sold to a Cuban plantation owner (he was later liberated and died as a freeman at age 64).

As a child Moré learned to play the guitar, making his first instrument at age six, according to his mother, out of a board and a ball of string.

In 1936, at age seventeen, he left Las Lajas for Havana, where he lived by selling bruised and damaged fruits and vegetables and medicinal herbs. Six months later he returned to Las Lajas and went to cut cane for a season with his brother Teodoro. With the money he earned and Teodoro's savings, he bought his first decent guitar.

In 1940, Moré returned to Havana. He lived from hand-to-mouth, playing in bars and cafés, passing the hat.

His first breakthrough was winning a radio competition. In the early 1940s, the radio station CMQ had a program called "The Supreme Court of Art" in which a wide variety of artists participated. Winners were given contracts by unscrupulous businessmen who exploited them. The less fortunate were treated to the humiliation of a loud church bell which brutally terminated their performances.

In his first appearance, Moré had scarcely begun to sing when the bell sounded. He later competed again and won first prize. He then landed his first stable job with the Cauto conjunto led by Mozo Borgellá. He also sang with success on the radio station CMZ with the sextet Fígaro of Lázaro Cordero. In 1944, he made his debut on station 1010 performing with the Cauto quartet.

Then came Moré's major breakthrough.

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Benny Moré (født 24. august 1919; død 19. februar 1963) regnes av mange som Cubas beste sanger noensinne. Han ble døpt som Bartolomé Moré men endret senere navnet til Benny Morè. Av tilhengerne fikk han tilnavnet «El Bárbaro del Ritmo» (rytmenes barbar). Til forskjell fra mange andre cubanske sangere som gjerne spesialiserte seg i én musikkform, mestret han de fleste stilarter i tradisjonell og nyere cubansk musikk, heriblant guaracha guajira, mambo, bolero, cha cha cha, afro, canción og guaguancó.