Armando Oréfiche

Cuban pianist, songwriter

Armando Oréfiche (Havana, Cuba 5 June 1911 – Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, December 2000) was a Cuban composer and pianist in the mid-20th century.

Oréfiche was one of many artists who played with the Lecuona Cuban Boys between 1935 and 1938.

Oréfiche led the Armando Oréfiche and his Havana Cuban Boys band, a ballroom rumba band, until the 1980s when they dissolved. Oréfiche subsequently took a position as pianist at the five-star Hotel Reina Isabel of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

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Works

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  • Cafunga
  • Cuánto me alegro
  • Guajira
  • La Conga Blicoti
  • La Havane à Paris
  • Mayari
  • Rumba Internationale
  • Tra ka tra