Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros
Cuban jazz trumpeter
Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros (4 April 1928 – 6 January 2016) was a Cuban trumpeter. He has played with artists such as Arsenio Rodríguez, Generoso Jiménez, Chico O'Farrill, Orchestra Harlow, Eddie Palmieri and Cachao. He was known for making Afro-Cuban jazz, Latin jazz and salsa more popular in the United States where he lived. He was sometimes called "Cuban Louis Armstrong".
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Armenteros was born in Santa Clara, Las Villas. He was married eight times, and had nine children, one son and eight daughters.
Armenteros died from prostate cancer on 6 January 2016 in New York City. He was 87.[1]
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- ↑ "Trumpet Legend Alfredo 'Chocolate' Armenteros Dies at 87". Billboard. January 7, 2016. Retrieved January 8, 2016.