Carlos Alas Del Casino
Carlos Alas Del Casino
Top Songs
| 1 | En El Eco De Mi Voz | ||
| 2 | El Amor De Mi Bohío | ||
| 3 | Los Penachos De La Palma | ||
| 4 | Madrigal Guajiro | ||
| 5 | Alborada (Guajira) |
Albums
Mar 2012 • 12 songs
Apr 1979 • 12 songs
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Biography
With a name that sounds like the lament of a Spanish gambler, Carlos Alas del Casino helped popularize the guajira style of tango in his native Cuba before fleeing to Miami in the '60s at the height of tensions between Fidel Castro and the United States. The resulting American cultural influences may have gone well beyond the atmosphere of the Miami Cuban exile community and its right-wing fiats; his son, also a singer with the stripped-down name of Jovary Alas, supposedly wound up jamming with heavy metal maestro Alice Cooper at Studio 54.
Alas del Casino's music career beg...