Ernesto Duarte Brito (

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(Cuba), November 7, 1922 – Madrid, Spain, March 4, 1988) was a Cuban musician, author of the bolero ''Cómo fue'', whose performance by

Benny Moré Bartolomé Maximiliano Moré Gutiérrez (24 August 1919 – 19 February 1963), better known as Benny Moré (also spelled Beny Moré), was a Cuban singer, bandleader and songwriter. Due to his fluid tenor voice and his great expressivity, he was k ...

became very famous. There are many versions of this bolero all over the world. He was the father of the multi-instrumentalist, composer and arranger

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Artistic career

He was a composer and producer, conductor and arranger. Among the many songs he composed, the most outstanding are ''Nicolasa'', ''El baile del pingüino'', ''Bájate de esa nube'', ''Anda dilo ya'', ''Cicuta tibia'', ''Arrímate cariñito'', ''Dónde estabas tú'', ''Qué chiquitico es el mundo'', etc. As a producer, he launched to fame, first with the record label "Gema", founded with Guillermo Alvarez Guedes, and later with his own label "Duarte",Díaz Ayala, Cristóbal. Música cubana, del Areyto a la Nueva Trova. Edit. Cubanacán, 1981, p.224. artists like the afore mentioned Benny Moré, Rolando Laserie, Rolo Martínez, Celeste Mendoza, Tata Ramos, Xiomara Alfaro and Fernando Alvarez. He also worked as an executive at the record company

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. He left Cuba in 1961 to settle in Madrid, Spain, where he died on March 4, 1988, at the age of 65.

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