Valdés, Bebo

Valdés, Bebo * October 9, 1918Valdés, BeboBebo Valdés Piano player, composer, and bandleader Dionisio Ramón Emilio Valdés was born in Quivicán, a small town south of Havana. One of several children of very poor parents, he began studying piano as a child at a time when the Cuban son was becoming the national rage in Cuba. By the time he was 10 years old, Bebo, as he was nicknamed as a child, was playing maracas and singing in a son group. After his family moved to Havana in the early 1930s…