Armando Oréfiche (
Havana
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, December 2000) was a
Cuban
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composer and pianist in the mid-20th century.
Oréfiche was one of many artists who played with the
Lecuona Cuban Boys The Lecuona Cuban Boys was a popular Cuban orchestra which toured the world for over forty years.
The band was founded by Ernesto Lecuona, whose role was that of a patron-entrepreneur. He did not actually play with the band, but sometimes gave a p ...
between 1935 and 1938.
Oréfiche led the Armando Oréfiche and his
Havana Cuban Boys band, a
ballroom rumba band, until the 1980s when they dissolved. Oréfiche subsequently took a position as pianist at the five-
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Hotel Reina Isabel of
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
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.
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Cuban bandleaders
Cuban composers
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Rhumba musicians
1911 births
2000 deaths
20th-century pianists
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