Vinyl records

Edmundo Ros vinyl records

1 album with 10 vinyl pressings between them. Open an album to see all its pressings and how to spot the first one.

Edmundo William Ros. Trinidadian-Venezuelan orchestra conductor, born December 7, 1910 in Port of Spain, Trinidad, died October 21, 2011 in Alicante, Spain The family moved to Caracas, Venezuela. His musical career started in the army, then he became the tympanist in the Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela. He moved to London in 1937 to continue classical studies, but popular music was to become his career. He played drums in the Fats Waller recordings, played percussion and sang in Don Marino Barreto's Cuban band and formed his five-piece Rumba Band in 1940, and the rest is history. Edmundo's Rumba Band with strange rhythms was a smash hit in London, although the Nazi bomb almost hit the club.