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Dance in Cuba

The World

Global Hit – Gonzalo Ascencio

Arts, Culture & Media

Anchor Lisa Mullins profiles Cuban songwriter, Gonzalo Ascencio. Known mostly by his nickname Tio Tom, he wrote hundreds of rumbas, but got little credit. Now 17 after his death, a new CD pays tribute to the man some call the “Irving Berlin of rumba.”

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