Pupi Campo

Jacinto "Pupi" Campo (May 1, 1920 – December 12, 2011) was a Cuban entertainer, dancer and bandleader who spent most of his life in the United States.

His band featured percussionist and musical director Tito Puente and pianist Joe Loco.

[1] In 1970 he moved to Las Vegas, where he set up the jazz club "Cleopatra's Barge", inside Caesar's Palace.

Two future Latin music stars, Tito Puente and Joe Loco, played with the Pupi Campo Orchestra in the late 1940s.

He died in Las Vegas and was survived by a son, Carlos Alejandro Campo, and three daughters from his marriage to Betty Clooney; also a sister, 11 grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.

Pupi Campo in 1942