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Tito Duarte
real name Ernesto Duarte Hernández
Havana, Cuba
Tito Duarte is credited on 762 releases across 218 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1958–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
762
Credits
218
Albums
8
Decades active
10
In collections
Biography
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Tito Duarte (La Habana, Cuba, 1946 – Córdoba, Spain, 2003) was son of composer and conductor Ernesto Duarte Brito, who played with stars as or Celia Cruz, apart from working on RCA records. The family exiled from Cuba after Castro's revolution, going to Spain.
Tito Duarte played percussion, saxes, flutes, keyboards and bass guitar, apart from being a very good arranger as he showed on Barrabas, band founded by Fernando Arbex in 1971. Later he played with jazz musicians, backing Carles Benavent, Josep Mas "Kitflus", Jorge Pardo, Max Sunyer, Vlady Bas. He also played as session man: Aguaviva, Guadalquivir, Joan Manuel Serrat, Alameda, Radio Futura,…
He recorded some solo albums: "Tito Duarte" (1979), a dance jazz album, or "Un directo... al sabor" (1981), a more commercial release.
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
762 releases · 218 albums · active 1958–2026
- Performance · 1,463
- Other credits · 91
- Production · 7
- Engineering · 2
Studios: Estudios Kirios · Estudios Eurosonic · Estudios Sonoland · Doublewtronics
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Barrabas
- Moncho (3)
- Various
- Caña Brava (2)
- Jayme Marques
- Los Sencillos
- Miguel Ríos
- Rodrigo
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