Pacho Alonso
Cuban singer and bandleader
title: "Pacho Alonso" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1928-births", "1982-deaths", "20th-century-cuban-male-singers", "cuban-bandleaders", "musicians-from-santiago-de-cuba", "musicians-from-havana"] description: "Cuban singer and bandleader" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacho_Alonso" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Cuban singer and bandleader ::
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Pacho_Alonso,La_Lupe&_Benny_Moré.jpg" caption="Pacho Alonso (left) with [[La Lupe]] and [[Benny Moré]], ca. 1959. All three were signed to the [[RCA Victor]] subsidiary [[Discuba]]."] ::
Pacho Alonso (August 22, 1928 – August 27, 1982) was a Cuban singer and bandleader from Santiago de Cuba who is attributed with creating the musical form pilón in collaboration with percussionist/composer Enrique Bonne. He founded his first conjunto in Havana in 1957. In the 1950s, Alonso sang with Benny Moré and Fernando Álvarez, a trio popularly known as "The Three Musketeers". Later he sang with Ibrahim Ferrer. Pacho Alonso also enjoyed tremendous success in his international tours through Latin America, Europe and Africa.
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- (Fall 2013). "Pacho Alonso". Florida International University Libraries.
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