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- Born: June 14, 1927, Puerto RicoSalsa Power: A Visit with Cuban Pete (June 14, 2000)
- Education: Trained with Katherine Dunham and The New Dance GroupHistory of Mambo: Mambo Legends Cuban Pete and Millie Architects of Excitement
- Spouse: Millie DonaySalsa Power: A Visit with Cuban Pete (June 14, 2000)
- Children: Denise Girard, Petrina Aguilar, Sean Peter AguilarMiami Herald: Cuban Pete, mambo king, dies in Miami at 81 (January 13, 2009)
- Was a boxer before he started dancingHistory of Mambo: Mambo Legends Cuban Pete and Millie Architects of Excitement
- Won his first dance contest at La Clique in New York CityHistory of Mambo: Mambo Legends Cuban Pete and Millie Architects of Excitement
- Nicknamed "Cuban Pete" after the Desi Arnaz song of the same nameMiami Herald: Cuban Pete, mambo king, dies in Miami at 81 (January 13, 2009)Miami Herald: Cuban Pete, mambo king, dies in Miami at 81 (January 13, 2009)
- Danced as part of The Mambo Devils with Augi Rodriguez and Tommy MortonHistory of Mambo: Mambo Legends Cuban Pete and Millie Architects of Excitement Salsa Power: A Visit with Cuban Pete (June 14, 2000)
- Dancing partners: Millie Donay (1950-1955), Barbara CraddockSun Sentinel: Mambo star 'Cuban Pete' dead (January 13, 2009)
- Invented more than 100 dance stepsSun Sentinel: Mambo star 'Cuban Pete' dead (January 13, 2009)
- Worked for Warner Brothers as a choreographer and actor from 1969-1982Salsa Power: A Visit with Cuban Pete (June 14, 2000)
- Taught salsa with his partner Barbara Craddock until 2008Salsa Power: A Visit with Cuban Pete (June 14, 2000)
- Worked as consultant on the Armand Assante and Antonio Banderas movie Mambo KingsHistory of Mambo: [http://www.justsalsa.com/culture/mambo/history/articles/alanfeuerstein/mambolegendscubanpeteandmille/ Mambo Legends Cuban Pete and Millie
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Pedro "Cuban Pete" Aguilar was one of the great mambo kings—a dancer and important influence of the Afro-Cuban-Latin fusion music and dance movement of New York and the Caribbean in the 1940s and 1950s. He died on January 13, 2009.Miami Herald: Cuban Pete, mambo king, dies in Miami at 81 (January 13, 2009)
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Well, on the weekends my mother would teach me the many forms of Latin dance—the danson, the guajira and others—and one day, I walked into the Trocadero Ballroom in the Bronx and the late Miguelito Valdez saw me all cut up. He told me to get out of the fight game. At the same time the owner of the Trocadero saw me dance Mambo and said that I should become a professional dancer. I laughed at the time but agreed to enter a dance contest at the downtown club called La Clique, where Desi Arnaz met Lucille Ball. There was a thousand-dollar dance contest and I won it dancing with a woman named Ida Gonzales. I decided that "this was for me".—Pedro AguilarHistory of Mambo: Mambo Legends Cuban Pete and Millie Architects of Excitement-
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Play the maracas! Happily updating my blog Italian Soccer Serie A listening to CUBAN PETE by Ricky Ricardo / De... ♫ http://blip.fm/~gyx7s
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HALP! I have both versions of Cuban Pete stuck in my head :( <TomServoSob>
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@konair8 they call you cuban pete just follow the african beat
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OK, enough of that xmas crap. Doing my head in. Oh, hey, The Mask soundtrack! They ca'l me Cuban Pete, I'm the King of the Rhumba beat...
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They call me Cuban Pete! I'm the king of the rumba beat. When I play the maracas, I go chick chicky boom, chick chicky boom... <o/
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