Alfredo Valdés-Brito Ibáñez

Outstanding Cuban musician from the first half of the twentieth century, first integrating various orchestras, later as composer and arranger.

Son of Cuban Alfredo Valdés Brito and Mexican Julia Ibañez, he is brother of musician and composer Julio Brito. From childhood under the teaching of Pedro Sanjuán, he learned to play several instruments such as: flute, saxophone, clarinet, and piano.

With maestro Armando Romeo Marrero he perfected everything related to music and direction of different orchestra models. He joined as flutist the orchestra of Antonio María Romeo Marrero.

Subsequently he joined Don Azpiazu's orchestra as saxophonist, with which he traveled to New York, where he arranged the musical arrangement of the street cry El manisero by Moisés Simons.

In 1930 he organizes the Siboney orchestra, performing on radio and making recordings, in which performed at different times, Carlos Alas del Casino, Rosario García, Esther Borja, Julio Brito, Nena Brito, René Cabel, María Ciérvide, Ramiro Gómez Kemp, Miguel García, Hermanos Hernández, Rafael Hernández, Toña la Negra and Pedro Vargas.

In the United States he directed Paul Whiteman's orchestra, performed musical work for films, such as Rumba, Yo soy el héroe and Prófugo.

As a composer he created symphonic music, among which are cited, Sonata for violin and piano and Fantasía. In popular music, he composed popular themes such as: Acelera, La choricera, El volumen de Carlota and the danzón, La flauta Mágica, this being one of the most recognized.

He transformed the theme El Manisero into a son-pregón, becoming an international standard when recorded for the RCA label by the New York orchestra of Cuban Don Azpiazu.

Works
Caliente
Amanecer criollo
La mula Rusia
Tropicana

Alfredo Brito and his Siboney orchestra

- Canto Siboney / Ernesto Lecuona.
- María la O / Ernesto Lecuona
- Your tears / Julio Brito
- Caliente rhapsody / Alfredo Brito
- The love of my bohío / Julio Brito
- When you remember me / Julio Brito
- Thinking of you / Rafael Hernández
- I don't want you to tell me / Rafael Hernández
- Ah…How beautiful you are / Rafael Hernández

The Siboney orchestra continues its recordings relentlessly and with singers from all over Central America.

- Absence / Rafael Hernández.
- Mayita / swing, RC, HC.
- Crepuscular / Rafael Hernández.
- Inspiration / Rafael Hernández
- Spanish lament / Rafael Hernández
- Long live love / tarantela, R. Hernández
- Spite / R. Hernández
- They say so / R. Hernández
- Stammers / R. Hernández
- I love you very much / R Hernández
- I want to forget you / R. Hernández
- Jungle / R. Hernández
- Walk / R. Hernández
- Buyanga / R. Hernández
- Devil / R. Hernández
- Oh what a thing / conga, R. Hernández
- The queen died / R. Hernández
- Seas and sands / Rosendo Ruiz Suárez
- A little kiss of love / R. Hernández

The Siboney continues recording in Cuba

- Far from you / R, Hernández
- I love you so much / Julio Brito
- Cuban heel tap / arr, Alfredo Brito
- Hot salad / potpourri DR
- Omen / Ramiro Gómez Kemp
- Come closer / Ramiro Gómez Kemp
- My song is like this / Ramiro Gómez Kemp
- Raquel / Ramiro Gómez Kemp
- Lullaby waltz / Ramiro Gómez Kemp
- Brown doll / Ramiro Gómez Kemp
- I love you more than yesterday / Ramiro Gómez Kemp
- Sleep little doll / Ramiro Gómez Kemp
- I'm leaving far from your side / caprice, Ramiro Gómez Kemp.
- Little stream of my house / EB
- I have a new love / Ernesto Lecuona
- I don't know why / Ernesto Lecuona
- Creole sunrise / Alfredo Brito
- On the border of Mexico / Kennedy
- Come here / Agustín Lara
- Love from yesterday / Agustín Lara
- Love complaint / PV
- I saw you pass by / Agustín Lara
- In love / J. S. Garrido
- Tell me if you go with her / Osvaldo Farrés
- I will return / Pedro Vargas
- In my heart / Ernesto Lecuona
- Little creole corner / Julio Brito
- Penumbra / Juan Bruno Tarrasa
- The Russian mule / arr, Alfredo Brito

Recordings of the Siboney orchestra in 1941 and 1942

- Lotus flower / E. Cantarell
- Sea / GRu
- This is how my singing goes / Juan Bruno Tarrasa
- Plea of love / Osvaldo Farrés
- Tropicana / Alfredo Brito
- Tropical breeze / S. Agramante
- Curled up / Julio Brito
- Only once / Agustín Lara
- I will come for you / Juan Bruno Tarrasa
- Tropiconga / conga, BC
- Waltz of the shadows / Ernesto Lecuona
- Why did you leave / A. Tariche
- You are mistaken / Osvaldo Farrés
- Your lies / Mario Fernández Porta
- Moon's lament / Julio Gutiérrez
- Black man with cape / afro, Guillermo Rodríguez Fife
- That's what you'll get to / Osvaldo Farrés
- Good luck / M. Krivochey
- Only to remember / Julio Brito
- Tiredness / Orlando de la Rosa
- There on my little farm / Julio Brito
- A whole life I would be with you / Osvaldo Farrés
- One single heart / F. Fernández
- From heart to heart / Julio Brito
- Tears of blood / Agustín Lara
- One night or never / Osvaldo Farrés

As Cuban Orchestra of Alfredo Brito (Decca) 1934. New York

- Sleeplessness of love / danzonete, Rafael Hernández
- Who threw the bomb / danzonete, Miguel Matamoros
- Nymph of the bewitching eyes / danzonete, Alfredo Brito
- The streets of San Juan, Pedro Flores
- Kiss me –Look at me–Love me / dzt, Armando Valdespí
- La cucaracha / dzt, J:J: Martínez

Alfredo Brito and his Hotel Biltmore Orchestra, 1935 New York

- Enslaved lament / Eliseo Grenet
- Shake in the maracas / Rafael Hernández
- Green eyes / Nilo Menéndez
- Mommy Inez / Eliseo Grenet
- Beneath the curtain of the night / Alfredo Brito
- Goodbye / E. Madriguera
- Tabú / afro, Margarita Lecuona
- The magic of you / R. Raiger
- Brunette / Julio Brito
- Siboney / Ernesto Lecuona.