Orestes Vilato: there's life after Santana.(Entrevista)

Latin Beat Magazine | November 1, 2002| | Copyright

Born on Mother's Day, circa 1944, in Cuba's main cattle region (Camagüey Province), timbalero/bongosero Orestes Vilató arrived in the Big Apple at the age of 12, after his fluently bilingual progenitor was recruited to be in charge of a couple of international flights inaugurated by Cubana de Aviación (Havana-New York and Havana-Chicago). A current resident of Martínez, Northern California, Vilató is regarded by this writer as the most influenttial Cuban timbalero north of Havana. Although the former leader of Los Kimbos admits that he "never took a single percussion ...

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