Carlos Varela was a Cuban musician. He was leader of the "Havana Madrid Orchestra" during the 1930s–1950s at New York's Havana-Madrid club on

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. He was one of the founding members of the Latin-American Music Society, an artists' rights and trade group, founded by musicians

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Machito Machito (born Francisco Raúl Gutiérrez Grillo, December 3, 1909 – April 15, 1984) was a Latin jazz musician who helped refine Afro-Cuban jazz and create both Cubop and salsa music. Ginell, Richard S. ''Biography''. Allmusic, 2011/ref> He w ...

, Bartolo Hernández, Jose Curbello and Varela, with Morales' manager, lawyer Bernie Ackerman in New York in 1947.Billboard - 18 Oct 1947 - Page 18 "The Latin-American Music Society (LAMS), a new trade group that may eventually include m&st of the country's rumba maestros, kicks off Tuesday (14) with a meeting of five charter members who will elect initial officers" .. "LAMS, brain child of the Ackerman-Lieberman legal office (Ackerman is also pm of band leader Noro Morales), incorporated September 23 with a group composed of Morales, Machito, Bartolo, Jose Curbello and Carlos Varela." In the 1980s, Varela offered private piano lessons to young students from his small Miami apartment.

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