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Fania honors one of salsa’s most iconic duos, Willie Colón and Héctor Lavoe, with a reissue of their final album together, 1983’s Vigilante. The best-selling album, which served as the soundtrack to the 1982 film of the same name (starring Colón in his Hollywood debut) also marked a long-awaited reunion for the two icons. Celebrating Vigilante’s 40th anniversary, this special release features (AAA) lacquers cut from the original master tapes by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio and is pressed on 180-gram vinyl. Rounding out the package is a vintage-style tip-on jacket, replicating the album’s eye-catching original artwork. In stores now, Vigilante will also make its debut on 192/24 hi-res digital audio. In addition, a Clear Smoke color vinyl exclusive with exciting bundle options that include a limited-edition Vigilante T-shirt featuring the iconic album cover art is being offered at Fania.com.
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¡Gracias por 1 millón en YouTube! Fania Records ha transformado para siempre el alma de la música latina en todo el mundo. Con más de 50 años de evolución, Fania continúa influyendo e inspirando a músicos y fanáticos de todos los géneros.
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Manténgase al día con el nuevo contenido y lanzamientos en nuestro canal de YouTube ahora. Enlace para suscribirse en bio.
#faniarecords #faniaallstars #fania
Today we honor and celebrate Tito Puente’s Centennial. 👑
Tito Puente, musician, composer, director and arranger, was known around the world as “The Timbal King,” but he was also skilled at the vibraphone, bateria, congas, bongos, claves, piano, saxophone, and clarinet. Attempting to tell his story requires going back to the very beginning of every musical movement he participated in over the course of his long and successful career. He was a great among greats. He gained his experience among the consecrated artists who would write the history of contemporary music.
Tito was born in New York City in 1923 and is of Puerto Rican descent. He lived in Spanish Harlem during most of his childhood where he began taking percussion lessons at the age of 10. At 19, he was drafted into the Navy, where he served for three years during World War II. Tito returned to New York to study at the Julliard School of Music where he earned a degree in Conducting, Orchestration and Theory. By the late 1940s, Puente was running his own band, and was featured as a soloist in his orchestra, and in the early 1950s Tito helped bring Afro-Cuban and Caribbean sounds like mambo, cha-cha-chá, and son to mainstream audiences, giving rise to the golden age of mambo. His first albums like Puente in Percussion and Cha Cha Cha’s For Lovers were released on Tico Records based in New York, and by 1958 he released a best-selling album, Dance Mania (RCA). His song “Oye Como Va,” released in 1960 was made a mega-hit by Carlos Santana in the 1970s and was included in the National Public Radio’s 100 Most Important Musical Works of the 20th Century. Other major hits by Puente include “Para Los Rumberos,” “Ran Kan Kan.” Puente received the highest awards, distinctions, and praise for his more than 100 albums, 400 compositions, and countless arrangements for diverse artists and musical genres. Among those was the coveted Grammy®, which he won five times. In 2003 Tito Puente, also known as “The King of Latin Jazz,” “The King of Latin Music,” “The King of the Mambo,” and “The Musical Pope” was posthumously awarded the Grammy® Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Tito Puente, musician, composer, director and arranger, was known around the world as “The Timbal King,” but he was also skilled at the vibraphone, bateria, congas, bongos, claves, piano, saxophone, and clarinet. Attempting to tell his story requires going back to the very beginning of every musical movement he participated in over the course of his long and successful career. He was a great among greats. He gained his experience among the consecrated artists who would write the history of contemporary music.
Tito was born in New York City in 1923 and is of Puerto Rican descent. He lived in Spanish Harlem during most of his childhood where he began taking percussion lessons at the age of 10. At 19, he was drafted into the Navy, where he served for three years during World War II. Tito returned to New York to study at the Julliard School of Music where he earned a degree in Conducting, Orchestration and Theory. By the late 1940s, Puente was running his own band, and was featured as a soloist in his orchestra, and in the early 1950s Tito helped bring Afro-Cuban and Caribbean sounds like mambo, cha-cha-chá, and son to mainstream audiences, giving rise to the golden age of mambo. His first albums like Puente in Percussion and Cha Cha Cha’s For Lovers were released on Tico Records based in New York, and by 1958 he released a best-selling album, Dance Mania (RCA). His song “Oye Como Va,” released in 1960 was made a mega-hit by Carlos Santana in the 1970s and was included in the National Public Radio’s 100 Most Important Musical Works of the 20th Century. Other major hits by Puente include “Para Los Rumberos,” “Ran Kan Kan.” Puente received the highest awards, distinctions, and praise for his more than 100 albums, 400 compositions, and countless arrangements for diverse artists and musical genres. Among those was the coveted Grammy®, which he won five times. In 2003 Tito Puente, also known as “The King of Latin Jazz,” “The King of Latin Music,” “The King of the Mambo,” and “The Musical Pope” was posthumously awarded the Grammy® Lifetime Achievement Award.
#titopuente #mamboking #titopuentecentennial
