Ray Barretto
Sign in to saveAmerican percussionist and bandleader of Puerto Rican ancestry (1929–2006)
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- 2
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- Aqui se puede
- Hard hands
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Ray Barretto (April 29, 1929 – February 17, 2006) was a Grammy Award-winning Latin/Latin jazz musician of Puerto Rican ancestry. Ray Barretto, a percussionist extraordinaire and legend in the Salsa & latin Jazz music community has left the music scene with his death in February 2006 at age 76. Born of Puerto Rican descendence in Brooklyn during the depression, he lived with his mother in East Harlem, The South Bronx and other "boricua" districts before he joined the army, where in the latter 1
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn
- Place of death
- Hackensack
- Occupation
- percussionist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- NEA Jazz Masters
- Genre
- Latin jazz
- Instrument
- conga
- Image
- Ray Barretto.jpg
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- date of death
- 2006-02-17
- date of birth
- 1929-04-29
- Commons category
- Ray Barretto
- name in native language
- Raymond Barretto Pagán
- pseudonym
- King of the Hard Hands
- start of work period
- 1949-00-00
- end of work period
- 2006-00-00
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