%0 Journal Article
%T El Ser J¨ªbaro en Piquito
%A Grego Marcano
%J Centro Journal
%D 2004
%I 
%X Pedro Marcano (1902 1966), known to the world as  Piquito,  was one of the foremost Puerto Rican bandleaders, composers and vocalists during the 1930s and 40s in New York City. He is best remembered as the founder and director of the famed Cuarteto Marcano, which was among the most popular bands in those decades, along with those of Pedro Flores, Rafael Hern¨¢ndez, and Pl¨¢cido Acevedo. Piquito also worked closely with other major musical figures of the period, including the premier vocalist Pedro Ort¨ªz D¨¢vila ( Davilita ), Noro Morales, Bobby Cap¨®, Manuel Jim¨¦nez ( Canario ), Fausto Delgado, Lalo Mart¨ªnez, Claudio Ferrer, and Tito Rodr¨ªguez. The composer of such popular songs as  Sin las mujeres,   Ang¨¦lica te llaman,   Son tres (Las islas hermanas)  and  Mi cafetal,  Piquito also led the bands that performed the historic recordings of many of the best known songs of the great Rafael Hern¨¢ndez and Pedro Flores and others, including  Campanitas de cristal,   Bembeteo no m¨¢s,   Cachita,   Llora coraz¨®n  and  La batatita.  Piquito returned to Puerto Rico in the later 1940s, but visited New York frequently during the 1950s and took part in the j¨ªbaro revival of those years along with the great Ramito, La Calandria, Chuito, Moralito and others. Piquito s son, Gregorio Marcano ( Grego ), has dedicated himself to documenting his father s long and illustrious career. The following contribution, which includes Grego s text, photos and visual documentation, offers a sample of that ambitious project.
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