Biography
Luis Mañuel Mirabal Vazquez, 5 May 1933, Melena del Sur, Havana, Cuba. His father was musical director of a municipal band and as a child Mirabal played various instruments before concentrating on the trumpet at the age of 11. By his late teens he was sufficiently skilled to play regularly with Conjunto Universal in Havana. This band played traditional Cuban music, but Mirabal also played American jazz with Swing Casino and an international repertoire with the Orquesta Casino Parisien. By the mid-50s he had formed his own band, Conjunto Rumbavana, which became very popular. In 1960 he joined the Riverside Orchestra at the Tropicana Club. It was here that he was given his nickname by Tito Gómez; ‘el guajiro’, which roughly translates as ‘country bumpkin’. Towards the end of the 60s, Mirabel became a founding member of the Orquesta Cubana De Música Moderna, which was then led by saxophonist Armando...
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