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Puente's youngest son, Tito Puente Jr., has performed and recorded many of Puente's songs. His daughter Audrey Puente is a television meteorologist for WNYW and WWOR-TV in New York City. After a show in Puerto Rico on May 31, 2000, Puente suffered a massive heart attack and was flown to New York City for surgery to repair a heart valve , but ...
In 1985, New York mayor Ed Koch named the intersection of East 111th Street and Third Avenue "Machito Square", a location in Spanish Harlem which is one block from East 110th Street, renamed "Tito Puente Way" after the 2000 death of Tito Puente. [30] Machito lived as a young adult in an apartment on the southwest corner of the intersection. [31]
Driggs died in Miami, Florida on May 31, 2017, of a sudden massive heart attack after playing with his band at home at age 67. Puente, who died on July 18, 2004, at age 51, [3] was the son of bandleader Tito Puente. A news report on the website allaboutjazz.com said Richard Puente "was hospitalized after suffering from viral encephalopathy ...
John Rodríguez Jr. (September 11, 1945 – August 17, 2024), better known as Johnny "Dandy" Rodríguez, was an American bongo player of Puerto Rican descent. He was the long-time bongosero for Tito Puente, and also played with Tito Rodríguez, Ray Barretto and Alfredo de la Fe.
Edward James Olmos has partnered with Tito Puente's family to bring the story of the legendary musician to the world in a series of projects, including film, television and VR content. Known as ...
Tito Jackson died in 2024 and Michael Jackson died in 2009. Read on to learn more about each of the Jackson siblings. Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson, performing here in 1988, is known as the ...
Among the other orchestras that played at the Palladium were the Machito, Tito Puente and Charlie Palmieri orchestras. The popular Latin music craze at the time was the chachachá and the mambo . At the peak of his popularity during the 1950s, Rodríguez was only rivalled by Tito Puente in New York's Latin music circuit.
Tito Jackson's family has laid the Jackson 5 singer to rest nearly two months after his death at 70.. According to People magazine, TMZ and the Daily Mail, Jackson's funeral took place Monday at ...