Book cover for Pérez Prado: King of the Mambo shown beside a portrait of the book’s author against a red-and-tan background.
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Author revisits the flamboyant reign of the King of Mambo at Books & Books

Long before Miami Sound Machine and decades before reggaeton, Dámaso Pérez Prado was packing dance floors with blaring brass, pounding percussion and the signature grunts that helped make mambo a…

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