Tag Archives: Puerto Rico

Latin pop singer/songwriter Carlos Ponce was created in Santurce and raised in Huamaco, Puerto Rico, building his debut as an marketing actor at age 6 and moving to Miami in 1986. After their studies at the New Globe School from the Arts, he previously the chance to take part in …

b. 27 Sept 1935, Puerta De Tierra, San Juan, Puerto Rico. The flexible Latin music group head, vocalist, percussionist and composer Quijano was seven years when his family members settled within the Bronx, NEW YORK, NY, USA. In 1950, while at college he sang and performed maracas using a teenage …

A Broadway singer and celebrity, Rita Moreno was frequently ensemble within the Latin gal assignments, striving to be an important celebrity like her idol, Lana Turner. Although she acquired several obstacles to get over getting from Puerto Rico, she became a superstar in Hollywood, on Broadway, in movies, and on …

Multi-platinum-selling sonero Eddie Santiago changed the salsa world using the release of his 1986 debut single providing Atrevido y Diferente. It controversially ushered within the “salsa romantico” motion, and broke product sales and airplay information using its pop melodies, hip preparations, and driving however laid-back, sensual rhythms. Santiago started performing …

Trombonist Fernando Arbello spent the first and old age of his lifestyle in his indigenous Puerto Rico. The total amount of his period was spent in america where he pursued — and captured, since it can be hard to flee from a fellow equipped with a trombone — a profession …

The bomba and plena traditions of Puerto Rico’s slums received respectability with the music of Rafael Cortijo (born Rafel Cortijo Verdejo). Inheriting his music group, which he renamed Cortijo con su Combo, when bandleader Mario Roman retired in 1954, Cortijo continued to be among the Caribbean’s many successful artists from …

Sometimes credited while Ralph Escudero, this Puerto Rican musician was a very important tempo section member in a few of the very most prominent of the bigger basic jazz ensembles, like the rings of Fletcher Henderson and the favorite McKinney’s Natural cotton Pickers. These rings featured challenging preparations and the …

Intimate salsa vocalist José Cheo Feliciano began going after a profession in music young, dropping away from senior high school at 17 to review the very best salsa orchestras in NY. His devoted fascination with the city’s Latin music picture resulted in a stint being a valet for just one …

Ismael Rivera (Un Sonero Mayor “Maelo”) was created in Santurce, Puerto Rico, about Oct 5, 1931. Everything started on the same road Rivera was created and elevated on: Calle Calma. There he was instilled using the noises and rhythms of Puerto Rico: the bomba and plena. At a age group, …

Puerto Rican reggaeton singer J Alvarez was created Javid David Álvarez Fernández in 1983. Interested in hip-hop young, he joined the reggaeton globe when he began employed in the studio room of his coach, DJ Nelson. His single debut arrived in 2011 with Otro Nivel de Música, which accomplished success …