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Rafael Ithier and other bandmates went on to found Puerto Rico's salsa group, "El Gran Combo". [ 11 ] In 1973 Cortijo happened to meet the pianist working at WKDM radio in New York, Pepe Castillo, who provided ideas for arrangements that Cortijo would use in his final album, His Time Machine y su Máquina del Tiempo.
The Frecuencia Latina bombing was a terrorist attack in Lima, Peru on June 5 1992. It was perpetrated by the terrorist organization Shining Path, which detonated a truck bomb at the primary headquarters of television channel Frecuencia 2 (renamed Latina Televisión in 2014) in Lima's Jesús María district.
Latina Televisión (also known as Latina TV or simply Latina, and previously known as Frecuencia Latina Televisión or Frecuencia Latina) is a Peruvian free-to-air television channel that has been broadcasting since 1983.
Despite an openness to experimentation and a willingness to absorb non-Cuban influences, such as jazz, R&B, bomba and plena, and already existing mambo-jazz, the percentage of salsa compositions based in non-Cuban genres during this period in New York is quite low, and, contrary to songo, salsa remained consistently wedded to older Cuban templates.
En Vivo Desde El Carnegie Hall (english: Live from Carnegie Hall) is a live album by the Puerto Rican Salsa singer Gilberto Santa Rosa, released on October 3, 1995. The Album was recorded live at New York City's Carnegie Hall. This performance marks the first time that a Puerto Rican singer of tropical music to perform at Carnegie Hall.
PARIS/SINGAPORE (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump's new crypto token soared to more than $10 billion in market value on Monday, while enthusiasm over his crypto-friendly administration helped ...
Oscar D'León was a long-time resident of the Parroquia Antímano section of Caracas, Venezuela [1] (his father was a laborer at the neighborhood cemetery). He had a strong interest in percussion ever since he was a child, improvising bass parts with his throat while playing Latin rhythms with his hands on any available surface.
Quanta Live has received critical acclaim, and won the Grammy Award for Best World Music Album at the 41st Annual Grammy Awards. [4] Interviewed the following year, Gil expressed that the award was particularly meaningful not only because Quanta was intended to represent a summary of the artist three decades into his career, but also because it was the live version rather than the studio album ...