José Luis Rodríguez

Venezuelan vocalist/percussionist Jose Luis “Un Puma” Rodríguez offers recorded with a lot of Latin music’s most prominent skills, including Julio Iglesias, Ed Calle, Emilio Estefan, Jr., Julio Hernandez, Lola Flores, Pedro Infante, and Rita Quintero. During the period of his decade-plus documenting profession, Rodríguez’s range provides spanned boleros, mariachis, norteño music, and intimate ballads. His result continues to be staggering for the reason that period, with twelve reissues, tribute albums, compilations, and primary produces arriving in 2002 by itself. That year’s Champagne produced the botto 1 / 2 of the very best Latin albums best 100 graph, Ricardo MontanerIn 2003, Rodriguez teamed with prolific Hispanic songwriter Manuel Alejandro for the entire length cooperation, Interpreta a Manuel Alejandro. In 2007, Rodriguez was identified as having pulmonary fibromatosis, an incurable disease that reduces breathing capability. But he cpontinued to execute and to respond. In ’09 2009 he became a member of the cast from the teleneovela series Gabriel, created for the Hispanic viewers in america. that yr also saw the discharge of Mi Amigo un Puma, his last fresh documenting for eight years. In 2012 he was a judge–and trainer–on La Voz… Argentina, and the next yr served within the same capability on La Voz …Peru. Within an interview that yr he informed a journalist that he’d continue steadily to perform–though he do so with reducing frequency–but wouldn’t normally record any more because of online piracy. Un Puma do appear just sporadically, but became significantly reclusive and refused to go over his wellness. In 2016, he apprently transformed changed his brain and moved into a documenting studio with maker Ricardo Montaner. The outcome was Immenso, some fresh duet recordings of his strikes. Among the artists contained in his collaborative day had been Chayanne, who performed with Un Puma on a fresh edition his 1989 smash “Culpable Soy Yo.” It had been issued like a pre-release solitary. Mexican vocalists Vincente Fernandez and Carlos Rivera also made an appearance, as do Spanish vocalist Amaia Montero and Argentine Soledad Pastorutti. American guitarist Nile Rogers followed Rodriguez on “Pavo Actual.” Immenso premiered in Apr of 2017.