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Orestes López Valdés （August 28, 1908 – January 26, 1991）, nicknamed Macho, was a Cuban multi-instrumentalist, composer and bandleader.
As a double bassist he was a founding member of the Havana Philharmonic Orchestra, and later a member of the National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba.
A long-time member of the charanga Arcaño y sus Maravillas, where he played cello and piano, he is considered the co-creator of the mambo, together with his brother Israel "Cachao" López, and one of the most prolific danzón composers of the 20th century.
Orestes López was born in Old Havana on August 28, 1908, into a family of musicians.
As a pre-teenager he studied piano, cello, violin and the five-key ebony flute.
In 1924, at age 15, he became double bassist for the newly-founded Havana Philharmonic Orchestra directed by Pedro Sanjuán.
A few years later, he was playing bass for Miguel "El Moro" Vázquez's charanga.
According to his brother Cachao, in 1926 he was a member of Grupo Apolo, the first septeto to include a trumpet.
Arcaño y sus Maravillas at Radio CMQ, c.
1945: Arcaño on flute, Orestes López on cello （seated）, Cachao on bass.
In the 1930s he was the musical director of three dance orchestras: López-Barroso, Orquesta de Orestes López and La Unión, before joining Antonio Arcaño y sus Maravillas in 1937 as a founding member.
López, a multi-instrumentalist, composed and orchestrated danzones, most notably "Camina Juan Pescao", "El truco de Regatillo", "Los tres bailadores" and "Mambo", which launched a new style of danzón, the so-called danzón-mambo.
Subsequently, the syncopated bass in the tune gave rise on the one hand to the dance genre known as mambo popularized by Pérez Prado, and on the other hand to the cha-ch...