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Often weighed against Philadelphia-born trumpet participant Ziggy Elman (1914-1968), Julio Cueva played an important part in the evolution of Afro-Cuban music. The first choice of an extremely successful band, through the 1940s, he helped to introduce such later on Afro-Cuban celebrities as vocalist Orlando “Cascarita” Guerra and pianist/arranger Rene Hernandez. …

Reynaldo Armas is among Venezuela’s most successful music artists. Best-known for his interpretation of intimate ballads, Armas provides sold a lot more than six million copies of his recordings since 1975. Surviving in Caracas since 1971, Armas provides discovered a supportive market in Colombia, where he performs frequently. Among five …

As the tireless bandleader and timbalero of La Orquesta Puertorriquena, Don Perignon is among the foremost exponents of big-band salsa in his local Puerto Rico. In 2004, the high-octane powerhouse celebrated twenty years of music with Don Perignon Presenta a la Orquesta Puertorriquena: 20th Aniversario, an 11-monitor collection that, in …

Latin musician Luis Represas gained popular with the past due-1996 discharge of Ao Vivo Zero CCB for the Portuguese department of EMI.

Created January 31, 1935, in Ponce, Puerto Rico, Pedro Juan Rodríguez Ferrer 1st began taking part in percussion as a boy. Nevertheless, his skills along with his tone of voice, and not along with his hands, would propel him in to the ranks as you of salsa’s finest performers. Rodríguez …

This band formed in Recife (Pernambuco) in 1984, from the continues to be of three deceased punk bands (Trapaça, Serviço Sujo, and Câmbio Negro). Mundo Livre S/A spent many years playing under substantial booing, particularly when they performed the tamborim (a percussion device traditional in the samba genre). In 1987, …

Bandleader, music movie director, arranger, and business lead vocalist of 14-piece music group Charanga Habanera, David Calzado offers played an important part in the development of contemporary Cuban music. Although he was pressured to reorganize the group in 1997, Calzado offers stayed among Cuba’s most important music artists. Under his …

Colombian pop singer Yolanda Rayo started singing at an extremely young age, determining to pursue a profession in show business following winning an area school contest. During her initial years as a specialist, Rayo participated in various bands, such as for example Los Exclusivos de Alex, Yajé, Chucho Nuncia con …

Colombian actor, singer, orthodontist, and soccer participant Marcelo Cezan (blessed Edgar Gómez) produced his debut using the release of Nueve Semanas y Media in 1992. He afterwards played assignments on it series Tentaciones and La Maldición del Em fun??o deítherefore. After shifting to Mexico, the multi-talented musician participated within a …

Brazil is affluent with music heroes, past aswell while present, and Daniela Mercury is one of these, for she was the leading axé performer from the 1990s, having a goddess-like position in Salvador da Bahia. It is because that northeastern capital town is normally surface zero for axé, a exclusively …