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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 ...
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 Fé.
[6] [7] Sergio Calzado's brother, Rudy, is the lead singer in Puente's recording. Puente himself recorded "Oye Cómo Va" live on many occasions, including his 1980 Montreux Jazz Festival appearance with the Latin Percussion Jazz Ensemble. The lineup in the original recording was the following: [8] Tito Puente: timbales, chorus, leader
In 1948, the Palladium Ballroom gained in stature because of the Big Three acts: Tito Puente, Tito Rodríguez, and Machito.The careers of the Big Three expanded on the strength of their bookings there.
Tito Puente Swings, The Exciting Lupe Sings, also known as La exitante Lupe canta con el maestro Tito Puente is an album by La Lupe and Tito Puente. It was released by Tico Records in 1965. [ 1 ] AllMusic gave the album a rating of two-and-a-half stars.
The Mambo Kings is the soundtrack to the 1992 film of the same name, based on Oscar Hijuelos's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love.Artists featured on the album include Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, Benny Moré, Arturo Sandoval, Linda Ronstadt and Los Lobos.
The timbales of Tito Puente on exhibit in the Musical Instruments Museum in Phoenix, AZ Salsa is another genre whose form derived from the Cuban/Puerto Rican melding of the genre, especially Cuban dance music of the 1950s—but which in the 1960s–70s became an international genre, cultivated with special zeal and excellence in Puerto Rico and ...
Pedro "Cuban Pete" Aguilar (June 14, 1927 – January 13, 2009) [1] was named "the greatest Mambo dancer ever" by Life magazine and Tito Puente. Pedro Aguilar was nicknamed "Cuban Pete" and el cuchillo. [2] Aguilar was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He took tap-dance training in childhood and had an early career in boxing.