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name: "Amadito Valdés"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/amadito-valdes"
roles: ["Musician"]
born: "14 February 1946"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-18T01:44:19.228317+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Amadito Valdés

Musician. Born 14 February 1946 in Havana, Cuba.

## Details

- **Work:** Musician
- **Born:** 14 February 1946, Havana, Cuba
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0883797/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1326553

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Buena Vista Social Club*](https://film.one/film/buena-vista-social-club.md) (76)

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## Biography

Amadito Valdés is a Cuban timbalero and percussionist. Born Amado Valdés on 14 February 1946 in Havana, he studied music with his father, a jazz saxophonist, and later at the Alejandro García Caturla Conservatory, where he developed an improvisational style on the timbales combining Afro-Cuban rhythms with son syncopation.

In the 1960s he became the timbalero for the vocal quartet Las d'Aida, a role he held for nearly three decades. In 1996 he joined the Buena Vista Social Club project, performing on the recordings and appearing as Self in the 1999 documentary film *Buena Vista Social Club* directed by Wim Wenders. He has also worked with Juan de Marcos González's Afro-Cuban All Stars and pianist Rubén González.

His solo album *Bajando Gervasio* received a Grammy nomination for Best Tropical Latin Album in 2004.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, ecured.cu.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Buena Vista Social Club* (1999), Fi1m 76, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/buena-vista-social-club.md)

## Complete filmography (1)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Buena Vista Social Club* (1999), Musician — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/buena-vista-social-club.md)

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