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unusual facts about Latin music



340ml

The music that 340ml produces is often described as having a very relaxed African-feel to it, and also strongly incorporates elements of Latin music, and to a lesser extent, Marrabenta.

Cándido Fabré

Candido and his band have toured all over the world and shared the stage with other Latin musicians including Grupo Niche, Cuco Valoy, Wilfrido Vargas, and Oscar D'León.

Carne Cruda

In the year 2000, while attending college at UCSC, guitarist and tres player Camilo Landau decided to form a band to experiment with blending Latin music and Caribbean music with other musical genres.

Escondido Public Library

The library hosts a monthly musical concert (November through April) with a wide variety of musical styles: zydeco, jazz, country, latin, folk.

Eydie Gormé

She gained crossover success in the Latin music market through a series of albums she made in Spanish with the famed Trio Los Panchos.

Felipe Rose

In the 1980s, Rose sang and danced for the Latin music maestro Tito Puente and he also starred in a regional theatre production of West Side Story.

Music Channel Romania

Noteworthy, Music Channel is known for also airing Latin pop, adult contemporary, J-pop and K-pop among other genres that don't receive significant airplay from other music stations.

New Klezmer Quintet

The group is also a neo-klezmer ensemble performing klezmer music while incorporating elements of modern Israeli folk music, ladino, jazz, Swing music, Latin music, and rock and roll styles.

Spanish Harlem Orchestra

Spanish Harlem Orchestra is a Latin dance music orchestra based in the United States, founded by Aaron Levinson and Oscar Hernandez.


see also

Billboard En Español

It provides resources and biographies on Latin music stars like Juanes, Daddy Yankee, Enrique Iglesias, Shakira, Flex, Chayanne, and Gloria Trevi.

El presente

At the Latin Grammy Awards in Houston, Texas, after a presentation of various accordions in Latin music that touched it with her song.

Eldad Tarmu

Eldad studied at Tel Aviv University in Israel, holds a masters degree in Afro-Latin music from California State University Los Angeles and a master of arts degree in Classical Composition from Stony Brook University, New York.

Enric Madriguera

In the late 1920s Madriguera played in Ben Selvin's studio orchestra at Columbia Records in New York, and served briefly as that company's director of Latin music recording.

Glenn Llopis

Llopis’ framework is presented based on his experiences as a corporate executive, as well as the well-grounded lessons of the immigrant perspective that were inspired from his father, Frank Llopis – a victim of Castro’s revolution in Cuba who was a prominent Latin music pioneer that introduced rock 'n' roll into the rhythms and sounds of Salsa music and Merengue music with his quartet, :es:Los Llopis, in the 1950s and 60’s.

Grupo Fuego

Grupo Fuego has also shared the stage with many legends of Latin music including Víctor Manuelle, Johnny Pacheco, Larry Harlow, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Oscar de Leon, Elvis Crespo, José Alberto "El Canario", Charlie Cruz, Tito Rojas, Aventura, Monchy & Alexandra, Tito Puente, Jr., Alexis & Fido, Ivy Queen, Sonora Carruseles, Fat Joe, and Huey Dunbar.

Joe Bataan

As a vocalist, Bataan's fame in the Latin music scene at the time was only rivaled by Ralfi Pagan.

Kike Posada

In April 1997, he was invited to a participate in a panel at the Billboard Latin Music Conference to speak, along with prestigious producers and musicians such as Phil Manzanera and Jorge Santana (brother of Carlos Santana) on the future of Rock in Spanish in the U.S.

La Fiebre

The musical group La Fiebre has become one of Latin Music’s most influential bands standing with other major Tex-Mex bands such as La Mafia and La Sombra, paving the way for future Tejano bands.

Manny Oquendo

He worked in the bands of tropical and Latin music ensembles such as Carlos Valero, Luis del Campo, Juan "El Boy" Torres, Luciano "Chano" Pozo, José Budet, Juanito Sanabria, Marcelino Guerra, José Curbelo, and Pupi Campo.

Max Salazar

His 2002 book "Mambo Kingdom: Latin Music In New York" (ISBN 0825672775) contains a number of articles about the Mambo legend Tito Puente and over 200 other dance articles for the Village Voice, Latin Times, Billboard, etc.

Orlando Marin

In 1997, Latin music historiographer Max Salazar presented Orlando a plaque at New York's at La Maganette in recognition of nearly five decades of uninterrupted contribution to Latin music.

Ralph Mercado

Mercado started RMM Records in 1987, which had in excess of 130 artists performing across the Latin music spectrum, representing merengue, salsa, Latin jazz and Latin rock.

Ritmoteca.com

Founded in Miami, Florida in 1998 during the Dot-com bubble by Ivan J. Parron, and Ricardo Decubas, the company was the leading Latin music download website and an early predecessor to Apple Inc.'s now highly successful iTunes business model of selling digital music downloads over the Internet.

Ritmoteca.com aggregated exclusive digital distribution rights from over one hundred independent Latin music record labels and amassed a library of over 500,000 music tracks and videos, including exclusive digital distribution rights to catalogs of some of the worlds top renowned Latin artists such as Marc Anthony, Tito Puente and Celia Cruz.

Rodolfo Vieira

Vieira has collaborated with student composers in Chicago, NU Contemporary Music Ensemble, Latin Music Festival with US premieres and Lucerne Music Festival Academy in Switzerland under supervision of Pierre Boulez.

Sergio George

He has worked with some of Latin music's most popular artists including Marc Anthony, Jennifer Lopez, Tito Nieves, Víctor Manuelle, Frankie Negrón, Johnny Rivera, Ray Sepúlveda, Tito Puente, DLG, Orquesta de la Luz, Ivy Queen, Celia Cruz, La India, Jerry Rivera, Bacilos, among others.

Sueño Stereo

The music video for "Ella usó mi cabeza como un revólver" was winner of the People's MTV 1996, the only MTV award to Latin music that existed at that time.

Unity: The Latin Tribute to Michael Jackson

The leader of the project is Peruvian-American musician Tony Succar and vocals are provided by a number of leading artists in Latin music genres, especially Salsa.

Univision Music Group

In the second quarter of 2004, Univision Music Group recording labels held the #1 position in the U.S. Latin music industry with an estimated 45% market 10.