Frank "Machito" Grillo

Francisco Raúl Gutiérrez Grillo (February, 16, 1912, Havana, Cuba - April 15, 1984, London, England). In the late 1920s and 1930s, Machito played the maracas and sang with some of Cuba’s most popular dance orchestras including Ignacio Piñeiro’s Septeto Nacional, María Teresa Vera’s , and El Sexteto Agabama.