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**Orquesta Maravillas de Florida Bio:** Founded in 1948, Orquesta Maravillas de Florida is a Cuban orchestra known for its traditional charanga music. Although they have no recordings listed in the Ayala database, the band recorded modern material in the 1970s and 1980s, which aligns with some definitions of the enigmatic genre "songo." They also embraced the stylistic term "cha-onda," coined by Orquesta Aragón during their modernization in the 1970s, and incorporated this term into their coros. Their sound shows clear influences from Ritmo Oriental, yet Maravilla is noted for being less hard-edged and more experimental in harmony. Felipe Cabrera and Eladio Terry were the dominant creative forces in the band until approximately 1983 when Manolito Simonet joined. Manolito left to form the Trabuco around 1993. While he maintained the key elements of Maravilla's charanga instrumentation, he expanded the orchestration to include trumpet, trombones, drumset, and teclado, which introduced tres-like timbres. The change in orchestration was abrupt, but the evolution of Manolito's harmonic and rhythmic approach was more gradual, as evidenced by comparing Maravilla's version of "Y para qué" to the one on "Marcando la distancia." Following Manolito's departure, Los Maravillas struggled to maintain their presence but attempted several comebacks, culminating in

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