Carlos Varela (bandleader)

Carlos Varela was a Cuban musician. He was leader of the "Havana Madrid Orchestra" during the 1930s-1950s at New York's club on Broadway.^[1] He was one of the founding members of the , an artists' rights and trade group, founded by musicians Noro Morales, Machito, , and Varela, with Morales' manager, lawyer Bernie Ackerman in New York in 1947.^[2]^[3]

In the 1980s, Varela offered private piano lessons to young students from his small Miami apartment.

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^ Esquire: Volume 24 William S. Burroughs: The Shoaf Collection (University of Virginia Library) - 1945 "The Havana-Madrid, Broadway's most revered rumba conservatory, is acting as joyous gymnasium for the sultry shaking-up ... Catalino's super-spirited orchestra is chief purveyor of Latinity, with Carlos Varela's able bunch also ..
^ Billboard - 1 Nov 1947 - Page 24 "Latin Musickers Plan Big Festival For Rumba Fund NEW YORK, Oct. 25.— Newly formed LAMS (Latin-American Music Society) held its first official meeting, after election of initial officers, Thursday (23) and voted to stage a giant ..."
^ Billboard - 18 Oct 1947 - Page 18 "The Latin-American Music Society (LAMS), a new trade group that may eventually include m&st of the country's rumba maestros, kicks off Tuesday (14) with a meeting of five charter members who will elect initial officers" .. "LAMS, brain child of the Ackerman-Lieberman legal office (Ackerman is also pm of band leader Noro Morales), incorporated September 23 with a group composed of Morales, Machito, Bartolo, Jose Curbello and Carlos Varela."

[1] Esquire: Volume 24 William S. Burroughs: The Shoaf Collection (University of Virginia Library) - 1945 "The Havana-Madrid, Broadway's most revered rumba conservatory, is acting as joyous gymnasium for the sultry shaking-up ... Catalino's super-spirited orchestra is chief purveyor of Latinity, with Carlos Varela's able bunch also ..

[2] Billboard - 1 Nov 1947 - Page 24 "Latin Musickers Plan Big Festival For Rumba Fund NEW YORK, Oct. 25.— Newly formed LAMS (Latin-American Music Society) held its first official meeting, after election of initial officers, Thursday (23) and voted to stage a giant ..."

[3] Billboard - 18 Oct 1947 - Page 18 "The Latin-American Music Society (LAMS), a new trade group that may eventually include m&st of the country's rumba maestros, kicks off Tuesday (14) with a meeting of five charter members who will elect initial officers" .. "LAMS, brain child of the Ackerman-Lieberman legal office (Ackerman is also pm of band leader Noro Morales), incorporated September 23 with a group composed of Morales, Machito, Bartolo, Jose Curbello and Carlos Varela."

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