Johnny Pacheco

Relocated to NY during the past due ’40s, Johnny Pacheco discovered to try out sax, percussion and flute in senior high school. In Sept 1959, he still left Charlie Palmieri’s flute and strings orchestra to arrange his own. Along with his initial recording, Pacheco con su Charanga, released by Alegre Information in 1961, Pacheco transformed the appear of music throughout Latin America and ushered within the “Pachanga” (a strenous dance) period which died out in 1964. Pacheco and lawyer Gerald Masucci founde the Fania label in 1964 and using its 1st recording, LP #325 (Pacheco’s birthdate) kicked from the however unborn salsa period in NEW YORK.