Descends from the head of a tribe of Congo , his son, Gundo, was captured by slave traders. In Lajas it was sold to a landowner named Ramon Paredes and called Ta Ramon Paredes Gundo. The great great grandfather of Benny Moré is sold to Doña Susana Benitez, later the Earl of More and renamed Gundo Ta Ramon Moré. Julia More (slave owned by the Count) have a daughter named Julia. Second is emancipated and freed dies at age 94. Julia Moré have six children with Simeon Armenteros y Calvo, Mambi Army Col. Patricia Barnabas, Thomas, Felipa, Chiquitica and Sofia. Patricia was the first of the daughters. He was not recognized by his father and bears the name of his mother Moré. Patricia had relations with a rich Spanish and had four children: Ophelia, Felipe, Julia and Virginia Secundina. The father did not recognize, so have the surname of his mother Moré. At 18, Virginia Secundina have a child with Silvestre Gutierrez: Bartolomé Maximiliano, which bears the name of his mother. Bartholomew is the oldest of 18 siblings. He was born on August 24, 1919 in San Isabel de las Lajas , Cuba . In 1935, aged 16, he is part of the first serious band. He leaves with his brother Theodore to cut cane to the center and meet Jaronú Castellanos and Victor Landa , helping you to start playing the guitar. The next, year 1936, he moved to Havana . Living selling fruit and bruised or damaged tubers and medicinal herbs. In 1939 Bartholomew sick of malarial fever. For four years living as you can, playing and singing in bars and cafes that threw him into the street to not disturb customers. In the early 40, the station CMQ begins a program called Supreme Court of Art , in which competes all kinds of artists. Those who succeed are hired by unscrupulous employers who exploit them, others are not so lucky and their participation in the competition is cut sharply and humiliating by the sound of a bell. Bartholomew is presented to the contest, just start singing you ring the bell. Later he returned to participate in this program and won first prize. His first steady job was with the whole Cauto , who ran Borgellá Mozo . In the station CMZ sang with the Figaro sextet of Lazaro Cordero . In 1944 he debuted in the 1010 station, with great success, performing with the Cauto Septet. By then, Siro Rodríguez , the Trio Matamoros.
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