autobiography in music.
             "Cachao was born in Havana in 1918, curiouser, in the house where Jose Marti, poet, politician and patriot, was born in 1853. But here the resemblance ends. Marti was small and frail, Cachao is tall and stocky with striking blue eyes in an Egyptian face. When he plays he looks like a bronco buster breaking in his bass every time he mounts. He plucks the strings, or uses his bow to whip the six-foot wooden horse of t
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