Barretto's Latin Music

One of the greatest idol for this genre is Romeo Santos. “Romeo Santos” also known as Anthony Santos was born in the United States, to a Dominican father and a Puerto Rican mother. Romeo Santos started his career with a group of guys where they called the group Aventura. He was the main songwriter and producer of the group. During his and the group career he decide to make a

In 1989, Selena signed with Jose Behar, the former head of Sony Music Latin and creator of the Capitol/EMI Latin label. Behar and Mario Ruiz, his friend and him who became President of EMI Mexico, found Selena when they attended the 1989 Tejano Music Awards. In that time, women didn’t success in the Tejano music, but they saw something in her. Behar later said he thought Selena was the next Gloria Estefan. Over the 3 years, Selena Y Los Dinos released 6 more successful albums.

His first time singing was in one of his father’s concerts, he was supposed to sing Alejandra but in the middle of the song he forgot the lyrics and had a panic attack, Vicente then got on the stage and sang with him.

The song "La Chicharonera" was sung by Narciso Martinez in 1936. The song was a big hit and that's how Martinez's career started with instant success. Martinez was considered the father of the Conjunto music as he spread his cultural and tradition through his music. Moreover, he was best known for "El Hurricane del Valle" as he was really good with swift playing. He had the capability of recording 20 different tunes in one single day. HIs music was so good that it became famous not only in Mexico, but also on the other side of the borderland called Taxes. Some of the example of his classic song tunes include "La Chicaronera," "La Prrita," "La Polvadera," and "Los Coyotes" (Harris Craig). All of the tunes were solo performance of Martinez but,

Hispanic’s music had a great impact in USA. Nowadays, Americans listen to Hispanics’ music. Hispanics’ music now is part of American’s culture. These changes in USA began around of 19th century, when Hispanics immigration increases in the USA. One of the big changes in music occurred around 1940s, when Americans began to recognize the efforts of Cuban-American musicians. One of the Cuban bands was Cugat. It was known better Orchestra ‘based in New York’s Waldorf Astoria’ which had a great visual and musical style. Another Cuban band was Machito who were dominated as one of the best New York’s scenes at that time. Thanks, to those bans Americans adopted some of Cubans’ dances and performances such as rumba, mambo and cumbia. Americans used and still using the Cuban instruments like bongos and maracas to create their rhythms. Later on, Americans created Jazz by African Americans with the influenced of Cuban’s music.

In the first years of touring, the family sang for food and barely had enough money to pay for gasoline. Selena was discovered by Rick Trevi, founder of the Tejano Music Awards, where she won the Female Vocalist of the Year award in 1987 and for nine years in a row after. The band was often turned down by Texas music venues because of the members' ages and because Selena was their lead singer they didn’t like the fact that she was a girl. By 1988, Selena had released five more LP records; Alpha, Munequito de Trapo, and the Winner is... Preciosa, and Dulce

He worked for years as a composer and arranger of secular pop music and was the founder/owner of Light Records. He worked as a composer and his music publishing company helped new artists to release their music, and eventually become pioneers of the Contemporary Christian Music. One of the first albums was Upon This Rock by Larry Norman; it came out in 1969 [not on the Light Records label]. Other popular artists included Andrea Crouch and the Disciples (1968), and Christian rock bands Love Song (1970), Petra (1972), and 2nd Chapter of Acts

During the 1950’s Perez Prado moved to New York and with him he brought the mambo, a brand new genre of music. While Perez Prado was in New York he created many albums that become very popular. These albums promoted the mambo making it a very popular field of music.

Selena recorded her first LB record in 1984 with Los Dinos for Freddie Records. The name Tejano Madonna was because she started to sing English- language songs and she recorded Tejano music compositions.

the great Afro-Cuban percussionist; Danilo perez, a master pianist and composer originally from Pnama; Arturo Sandoval, trumpeter, composer and music educator originally from Cuba; Mongo Santamaria, an Afro-Cuban conguero, bongeuro and composer; David Sanchez, saxophonist and composer; Chucho Valdes, an Afro-Cuban virtuoso pianist and composer; and Bobby Sanabria, a Bronx, NY-born Nuyorican percussionist, composer, educator, bandleader and expert in the Afro-Cuban musical tradition. Indeed, many Latin jazz classics such as "Manteca", "A Night in Tunisia" and "Guachi Guaro [Soul Sauce]" were composed by Gillespie and his musical

In New York City, Mambo dance ruled the clubs in the 1950s. Later on, another type of music known as the Chacha was brought by the Cuban bands and the New Yorkers instantly fell in love with it. Many bands played and entertained people all over the city throughout the 1960s. Some of these bands were led by future Salsa icons like Johnny Pacheco and . Before an embargo was imposed against the Cubans in 1962, their bands also introduced another popular dance known as Pechanga.

According to music historian Roger Wood, a term for this new genre of music had yet to be established until the mid 60s when Chenier recorded his seminal album Zydeco Son Pas Sale at Goldstar studio in Houston.

In the case of Julio Iglesias, I believe that it was for him hard to enter the mainstream. At that time, rock and roll was very popular and for an artist not to try and fit into the mainstream by what’s most popular in the country shows integrity from Julio Iglesias. In Clara E. Rodriguez book “Latin Looks: Images of Latinas and Latinos in the U.S Media” she had a chapter dedicated to the stereotypes in Hollywood and Rodriguez said there are six stereotypes of Latinos. One of them being the Latino Lover, which Julio Iglesias fitted perfectly in the 1980’s, since he was very charming and flirtatious. Nevertheless, having that stereotype made him able to continue to do the music he like and not change his music into rock and roll, while still

By this time Cooke was already known by the black community as a renowned artist, and had a very loyal fan base. However Cooke only spent six years until he decided to go his own solo way. (Guy n.p.).

In 1930, Mario Bauzo, a Cuban, came to the US and automatically fell in love with jazz. He felt free in New York simply because he wasn’t bothered for being black. Mario soon brought his brother in law, Frank Grillo, also known as Machito, to the United States. No one compared to how Machito played the maracas and would sing in his band Afro-Cubans. They performed amazing music consisting of traditional Latin rhythm and also included jazz melodies. Machito