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Arsenio Rodriguez

real name Ignacio Arsenio Travieso Scull

Matanzas, Cuba

Arsenio Rodriguez is credited on 1,311 releases across 341 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1950–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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1,311

Credits

341

Albums

8

Decades active

21

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Arsenio Rodríguez was a Cuban musician who played the tres (Cuban guitar), reorganized the conjunto and developed the son montuno, and other Afro-Cuban rhythms in the 1940s and 50s. He claimed to be the true creator of the mambo, and was an important and prolific composer who wrote nearly two hundred song lyrics.
Born in Güira de Macurijes, Matanzas, Cuba, 31st of August 1911 – died in Los Angeles, 31st of December 1970 -- cousin of

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1,311 releases · 341 albums · active 1950–2024

  • Performance · 1,983
  • Other credits · 47

Studios: Good Vibrations Sound Studios · Estudios EGREM · Latin Sound Studios · Capitol Studios, New York City

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