instrumento/instrument: trompeta/trumpet

grupos/groups: Manolín

grabaciones/recordings: Manolín: El puente: Live in the USA, Manolín: Jaque mate, Manolín: De buena fe, Manolín: Para mi gente, Manolín: Una aventura loca

lugar de nacimiento/birthplace: Guanabacoa, La Habana

formación musical/musical background: Guillermo Tomás, la EVA, la ENA

lugar actual de residencia/current residence: Miami

The lead trumpeter of Manolín's "Chamacos" is also an excellent jazz soloist. He moved to Miami along with most of the rest of the group in 1999. I was amazed to learn that he's the son of the Charanga Habanera trumpeter, Leonel Polledo, although Manolín's band came to prominence on the Timba scene only a few years after Charanga Habanera. His brother, Leonel Polledo Llorents is trombonist with Maykel Blanco y Salsa Mayor. [Kevin Moore]