Chito Latamblé

Reyes Latamblet Veranes (June 27, 1916 – March 6, 1993), better known as Chito Latamblé, was a Cuban tres player who specialized in the changüí genre of eastern Cuba.

From 1945, Latamblé co-directed with his brother the Grupo Changüí de Guantánamo, which featured the most "historically important" exponents of the genre.

[1] Latamblé was born on June 27, 1916, in the Loma del Chivo neighbourhood of Guantánamo, Cuba, to Marcelino Latamblet y Mariana Veranes.

[citation needed] He learned tres from his father and became a very active player from a very young age, despite his mother's wishes that he pursue a different career.

[2] Although he would work as a house painter and turbine oiler, he devoted his life to changüí, a music style that preceded the son cubano.