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Ismael Rivera
Ismael Rivera a.k.a. "Maelo" (October 5, 1931 – May
13, 1987), was a Puerto Rican composer and singer
of Puerto Rican music. Rivera was born in
Santurce, Puerto Rico, a sector of San Juan, Puerto
Rico. He was the first of five children born to
Luis and Margarita Rivera. His father, Luis, was a
carpenter...
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Israel Cachao Lopez
Name: Israel Cachao Lopez Date of birth :
1918-09-14 Date of death : 2008-03-22 Birthplace :
Havana, Cuba Nationality : Cuban Category : Famous
Figures Last modified : 2011-12-02 Credited as :
musician, composer, "Mambo Mass" Israel "Cachao"
López, often known as Cachao, was a Cuban musician
and composer who helped popularize mambo in the...
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Jerry Masucci
Name: Jerry MasucciDate of birth: (October 7, 1934
– December 21, 1997) Affiliation: Co-founder of
Fania Records. Masucci was born October 7, 1934 in
Brooklyn, New York to Urbano and Elvira Masucci.
His brother is Alex Masucci (born November 11,
1949). Masucci moved to a home on the Upper East
Side of New York, eventually...
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Jimmy Sabater
Jimmy Sabater (April 11, 1936 – February 8, 2012)
was an American Latin musician, who was a threetime winner of the ACE Awards. He was a singer and
timbales player, who primarily worked with The Joe
Cuba Sextet.Sabater is the son of Nestor Sabater
and Teresa Gonzalez of Ponce, Puerto Rico. Born
Jaime Sabater, Sr....
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Joe Cuba
Joe Cuba a.k.a "Sonny" (April 22, 1931 – February
15, 2009) was a musician of Puerto Rican descent
who was known as the "Father of Latin Boogaloo".
Cuba (birth name: Gilberto Miguel Calderón) was
born in New York City, Cuba's parents moved from
Puerto Rico to New York City in the late 1920s and
settled...
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Joey Pastrana
Once the song “Rumors” made its way into the New
York City radio stations, Joey Pastrana knew he had
that rarest of hits: The crossover. The melody of
“Rumors” was released in the year 1967 and was an
instant success with audiences across the city.
People didn’t have to be Latin to enjoy or
understand...
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José Curbelo
José Curbelo (February 18, 1917, Havana - September
21, 2012, Miami) was a Cuban-born American pianist
and manager. Curbelo was a key figure in Latin jazz
in New York City in the 1940s and helped to
popularize Mambo and the cha cha dance in the
1950s. Both of Curbelo's parents were born in Cuba,
but...
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Jose
́ Fajardo
José Fajardo is a Cuban charanga bandleader and
flautist. After performing with the band of
Antonio María Romeu, he formed his own charanga
band in 1957. Jose Fajardo was born in 1919 in
Pinar del Rio, Cuba, and played the traditional
five-keyed wooden flute in a family band led by his
father Alberto Fajardo, a...
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José Febles
José Febles was an extraordinary musician, arranger
and producer of the genre of "Salsa " in the 70s ,
80s and early 90s. Their arrangements were recorded
by great figures of Salsa , including Hector Lavoe,
Pete " El Conde" Rodriguez , Classical The Joint
Camilo Azuquita , Johnny Pacheco , Raphael De Jesus
,...
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Jose Mangual, Sr
José Mangual was born in Puerto Rico on March 18,
1924, and came to New York at the age of 14 (just
weeks from the day I was born). In 1956, I first
saw José Mangual play at a Monday night jam session
at New York City's famous jazz club, Birdland. I
remember being amazed...
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Juan Formel Los Van Van
Los Van Van is a Cuban band led by bassist Juan
Formell, and is the most recognized post-revolution
Cuban band. Formell, and ex-members Changuito and
Pupy are some of the most important figures in
contemporary Cuban music. In 1967, Formell became
musical director of Elio Reve's charanga orchestra.
The sound of Orquesta Revé at that...
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Juancito Torres
Juancito Torres Trumpeter , Arranger , Composer ,
Producer and Director Full name : Juan Torres Velez
artistic Qualifying : " The National Trumpet Puerto
Rico » Date of Birth: January 14, 1936 Location:
Thomas De Castro , Caguas , Puerto Rico died on 26
July 2003 in Carolina, Puerto Rico. Juancito was
renowned and
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La Lupe
Birth name Guadalupe Victoria Yolí Raymond Also
known as La Lupe La Yiyiyi "la Reina del Latin
Soul" Born December 23, 1939 Origin Santiago de
Cuba, Cuba Died February 29, 1992 (aged 52) Bronx,
New York City, New York, U.S. Genres Salsa, Bolero
Occupations Singer Years active 1958–1980
Associated acts Tito Puente, Mongo Santamaría,
Celia Cruz...
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Louie Ramirez
Louie Ramirez (February 24, 1938 - June 7, 1993)
was a boogaloo, salsa and latin jazz percussionist,
vibraphonist, band leader and composer. He co-wrote
with Johnny Pacheco the 1961 hit "El Güiro De
Macorina". He has been called "the Quincy Jones of
Salsa." Ramirez was born on February 24, 1938 in
New York City. He...
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Machito
Birth name Francisco Raúl Gutiérrez Grillo Also
known as Machito a/k/a Frank Grillo Origin Havana,
Cuba Died April 19, 1984 London Genres Latin jazz,
Cubop Instruments Singing, maracas Years active
1928–1984 Associated acts Afro-Cubans Machito gave
conflicting accounts of his birth.[3] He sometimes
said he was a native Cuban from Havana. Other
accounts place his...
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Manny Oquendo
Manny Oquendo (January 1, 1931 – March 25, 2009)
was a percussionist of Puerto Rican ancestry. His
main instruments were bongós and timbales. [See:
"Timbales Demonstration" (Manny Oquendo) and "The
Martillo [Bongo] Pattern" (Manny Oquendo) Oquendo
grew up in New York City and began studying
percussion in 1945. He worked in the bands of
tropical...
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Manuel Jimenez
One of the first Puerto Rican composers, vocalists,
and bandleaders to achieve success in the United
States, Manuel Jimenez, or Canario as he was best
known, recorded at a prolific rate between 1914 and
1964. Although he claimed to have written more than
1,000 romantic tunes, he is remembered more for
helping to establish the...
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Mario Bauzá
Mario Bauzá (28 April 1911 – 11 July 1993) was a
Cuban musician. He was one of the first to
introduce Latin music to the United States by
bringing Cuban musical styles to the New York jazz
scene. While Cuban bands had popular jazz tunes in
their repertoire for years,Bauzá's composition
"Tanga" was the first...
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Mario Rivera
Mario Rivera endures among the most gifted
saxophonists in Latin jazz -- a virtuoso talent
equally proficient on tenor, soprano, alto, and
baritone, he remains best remembered for his twodecade association with the legendary Tito Puente.
Born July 22, 1939, in the Dominican Republic, he
relocated from his native Santo Domingo to New York
City...
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Marvin Santiago
Marvin Santiago (December 26, 1947 – October 6,
2004) was a Puerto Rican salsa singer who became
famous all across Latin America during the 1970s.
He was also a part-time comedian on Puerto Rican
television. Early life Santiago was born in the
Santurce district of San Juan, Puerto Rico. In his
younger years Santiago lived...
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Mauricio Smith Sr
Virtuoso flautist, saxophonist and actor, Mauricio
Smith Sr., emerged briefly as a solo star in the
mid- to late 60's after a long association with
Vincentico Valdes, the La Plata Sextet, Joe Valle,
and the Joe Cuba Sextet. Born in Panama and the son
of a flautist who played with the Panama Symphony,
he studied...
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Milton Cardona
Milton Cardona, a Puerto Rican percussionist who
was a mainstay of New York salsa, a studio musician
on hundreds of albums and a Santeria priest who
introduced sacred traditional rhythms to secular
audiences, died on Sept. 19 in the Bronx. He was
69. The cause was heart failure, said his wife,
Bruni. In Latin bands...
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Mon Rivera
Mon Rivera is the common name given to two distinct
Puerto Rican musicians (both born in Mayagüez),
namely Monserrate Rivera Alers (originally
nicknamed Rate, later referred to as "Don Mon", or
Mon The Elder, and sometimes erroneously credited
as Ramón in songwriting credits) and his oldest
son, Efraín Rivera Castillo (1924-1978), (referred
to early in...
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Mongo Santamaría
Mongo Santamaría or Ramón " Mongo " Santamaría
Rodríguez (Havana , April 7, 19221 - Miami ,
February 1, 2003 ) was a percussionist , arranger
and conductor Cuban , one of the leading figures of
Latin jazz. Introduced from small in the world of
African and Cuban rhythms , becomes famous in the
1940s...
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Nestor Sanchez (El Abino Divino)
Nestor Sanchez was born in 1950 in New York,
United States. Considered by critics as one of the
Top vocalist. The " Divine Albino" died at age 53
in the Bronx, in New York. He had recorded more
than 200 albums in a career that began at age 19 in
New York in 1968 with...
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Noro Morales
Norosbaldo Morales (January 4, 1912, Puerta de
Tierra – January 16, 1964, San Juan) was a Puerto
Rican pianist and bandleader. Morales learned
several instruments as a child. He played in
Venezuela from 1924 to 1930, then returned to
Puerto Rico to play with Rafaél Muñoz. He emigrated
to New York City in 1935, and...
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Pedro Flores
Pedro Flores born (March 9, 1894 – July 14, 1979)
was one Puerto Rico's best known composers of
ballads and boleros. Flores (birth name: Pedro Juan
Flores Córdova[note 1]) was one of twelve children
born into a poor family in the town of Naguabo,
Puerto Rico. Flores' father died when he was only
nine years...
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Pérez Prado
Dámaso Pérez Prado (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpeɾes
ˈpɾaðo]; December 11, 1916 – September 14, 1989)
was a Cuban bandleader, musician (singer, organist
and pianist), and composer. He is often referred to
as the King of the Mambo. Pérez was his surname,
thus Dámaso Pérez, his true name, became known by
the paternal and maternal surnames Pérez...
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Pete “El Conde” Rodriguez
Pedro Juan Rodríguez Ferrer (January 31, 1933 –
December 2, 2000), better known as Pete "El Conde"
Rodríguez was a salsa singer born in Ponce, Puerto
Rico. His son, also named Pete Rodriguez, is also a
salsa and jazz musician. Pete "El Conde" Rodríguez
was a percussionist who started playing bongos at
the age of...
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