Chucho Valdés

Cuban pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger. Winner of four Grammy awards. Son of Bebo Valdés. In 1972 he founded the group Irakere, one of Cuba's best-known Latin jazz bands. Together with pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Valdés is revered as one of Cuba's greatest jazz pianists. His father is the famed Cuban pianist and former director of Havana's famous "Tropicana" night-club band Bebo Valdés.