Tite Curet Alonso

Among the top salsa songwriters ever, Tite Curet Alonso wrote hundreds upon a huge selection of tracks, including classic materials for a few of the best salseros from the second option fifty percent of the 20th hundred years. Given birth to Catalino Curet Alonso on Feb 12, 1926, in Guayama, Puerto Rico, he grew up mainly by his grandmother due to the divorce of his parents, among whom, his dad, was a musician within the orchestra of Simón Madera. Alonso was raised in Barrio Obrero, an impoverished region inside the Santurce area of San Juan. The frequently severe realities of existence within the barrio formed his world-view from an early on age group and would later on inform his songwriting, that was especially celebrated because of its interpersonal awareness. Upon completing senior high school, Alonso analyzed at the University or college of Puerto Rico and later on found are a journalist in NEW YORK through the 1960s. While surviving in NEW YORK, he also discovered are a songwriter, in the beginning collaborating with Joe Quijano in 1965. On the following several years — certainly, for the rest from the hundred years — Alonso penned tunes for the best salseros of his period, apparently over 2,000 tunes in total. One of the even more significant performers of his tracks are Celia Cruz, Willie Colón, Héctor Lavoe, Ismael Miranda, Rubén Cutting blades, Tito Puente, Cheo Feliciano, La Lupe, Bobby Valentín, Willie Rosario, Andy Montañez, and Ray Barretto. A number of the ideal shows of his tracks were put together for release in ’09 2009 in the double-disc compilation Alma de Poeta in the rejuvenated NY salsa label Fania. Alonso passed away on August 5, 2003, in Baltimore, MD, and was buried in Puerto Rico.