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Daily News… CUBAN PIANIST BEBO VALDES DIES IN SWEDEN, AGED 94 One of Cuba’s best-known pianists and composers, Bebo Valdes, died Friday at the age of 94 in Sweden where he had lived for more than 40 years, a friend of the family said. «He died this evening in hospital, his two sons were with him,» a close friend and neighbour who was with him when he passed away, Heri Ekelund, told AFP. Valdes began his career in Havana’s nightclubs in the 1940s. Influenced by American jazz, Cuban melodies and African rhythms, he became the main pianist and arranger for the house orchestra of Havana’s famed Tropicana night club in 1948, attracting Cuba’s top singers and orchestras. He was active as a bandleader, arranger and composer throughout the 1950s. But a year after Fidel Castro’s revolutionary government took over Cuba in 1959, Valdes defected to Mexico, leaving a wife and five children behind. He eventually settled in Stockholm in 1963, where he married a Swedish woman and started a new family. In Stockholm, he worked as a lounge pianist in hotels and bars to support himself, content just to tinkle the ivories. «If you are a musician, and you do one thing, you should enjoy what you do,» he told US National Public Radio in a 2006 interview. «This is my profession and it is my hobby. And I live in love with what I do. In those years in Stockholm, even if I wasn’t successful, I did it because I liked it. And I would keep doing it until I die,» he said. After a long break from recording, in 1994, at age 76, Valdes came out with the CD «Bebo Rides Again», where he played piano and composed eight numbers and arranged 11 songs. The album breathed new life into his career, and he went on to win a handful of Grammy awards. In the last years of his life, he left Sweden to live in Spain, but had returned to the Scandinavian country about a month before his death, Ekelund said.
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International News… FULL BLOOM IN TOKYO Tokyo’s cherry trees were in stunning full bloom on Friday, Japan’s weather agency said, marking the second earliest blossoming in the capital on record. The national weather service used Tokyo’s central Yasukuni Shrine as a barometer to judge the peak of the season, which sees a riot of white and delicate pinks exploding in parks, temple grounds, schools and on streets. The spectacle signals the coming of spring and is marked by sometimes-raucous gatherings of friends, family or colleagues picnicking under the trees. Events can go on for many hours and often involve alcohol.
MARRIAGE FOR ALL With Thermos bottles, sleeping bags and a few good books, about a dozen people lined up Friday to be among the first to attend oral arguments at the US Supreme Court on gay marriage. Never mind that the hearings don’t begin until next Tuesday. They said they were determined to have front-row seats at one of the year’s most anticipated sessions of the highest court in the nation. «I have gay friends and I’m here to support them,» a local resident who gave his name only as Rick told AFP, even if that means braving freezing overnight temperatures and a forecast of snow on Monday.