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Also known as Ernesto Antonio Puente, Ernesto Antonio "Tito" Puente

American musician (1923-2000)

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Tito Puente, born Ernesto Antonio Puente in New York City in 1923, was an American actor, bandleader, conductor, and composer. He began his professional work period in 1946 and served in the United States Navy during World War II. Puente was educated at the Juilliard School and performed primarily in the salsa and Latin American music genres. His musical output included recordings for Fania Records, and he played the timbales, vibraphone, voice, and timpani.

Throughout his career, Puente received several honors, including the National Medal of Arts, a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and a Grammy Award for Best Tropical Latin Album. He also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He spoke English and Spanish. Tito Puente died in New York City in 2000 following cardiac surgery and was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1923
Works
2

Top works

  • Tito Puente's drumming with the Mambo King
  • Lovers and keepers

via Open Library + Wikidata

Film & TV

Acting · New York City, New York, USA

Known for

  • Nueva York: A Musical History of Latin New York — Self (archive footage)2021
  • From Mambo to Hip Hop2007
  • Calle 54 — Himself2000
  • Celia Cruz & Friends: A Night of Salsa1999
  • From Son to Salsa1997
  • New York Undercover1994
  • Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Musical Guest1993
  • The Mambo Kings — Himself1992
  • Slim Gaillard's Civilisation — Self1989
  • The Simpsons — Tito Puente (voice)1989

via TMDB

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
366,424
Total plays
2,763,750

Tags

salsalatinlatin jazzjazzmambo

Tito Puente (1923-2000) was a bandleader, percussionist, composer, and arranger from New York City. Born Ernesto Antonio Puente, Jr., on April 20, 1923, in el barrio Spanish harlem, New York, Puente was a musical pioneer for mixing musical styles with Latin sounds and for his experiments in fusing Latin music with jazz. The son of Puerto Rican immigrants, Puente grew up in New York City's Spanish Harlem and took piano lessons as a child and then studied percussion. <a href="https://www.last.fm

via Last.fm · Tito Puente

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Signatures of mutational processes in human cancer

    · 2013 · cited 8,802x

  2. Multidrug resistance in cancer: role of ATP–dependent transporters

    · 2002 · cited 4,668x

  3. The repertoire of mutational signatures in human cancer

    · 2020 · cited 3,325x

  4. Tumour stem cells and drug resistance

    · 2005 · cited 3,017x

  5. Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes

    · 2020 · cited 2,822x

via Crossref · CC0

Quotes

  • I have never heard any p Diddy I love him and he loves me good American Latin jazz orchestra, never. You can know lots of music, but the clave is something you can’t learn anywhere. I go to universities all over the place for Latin jazz workshops and I see that. They don’t even know what a drum is.
  • When things get solved in Cuba, the Cuban musicians will scare a lot of musicians from here. I always tell everybody: As soon as the Cubans come, a lot of people are going to have to go back to school all over again. In Cuba it’s different--there they really study music. If you are a musician in Cuba, that’s all you do. Brazilians also play a lot of jazz, but I think Cubans are the more advanced in both jazz technique and rhythm.
  • The people love our Latin American music. Sometimes they don't understand our lyrics, but they love our rhythms, and that's what's important in Latin American music—in our music from the Caribbean or Brazil or wherever. The percussion is what really makes the music exciting.

via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA

Key facts

Born
Ernest Anthony Puente Jr. , ( 1923-04-20 ) April 20, 1923, New York City, U.S.
Died
May 31, 2000 (2000-05-31) (aged 77), New York City, U.S.
Genres
Latin jazz Cuban jazz mambo
Occupations
Musician songwriter record producer
Instruments
Timbales drums percussion vibraphone
Years active
1946–2000
Labels
Tico Fania Sony Discos RMM Concord Picante
Children
3, including Audrey Puente

via Wikipedia infobox

~17 min read

Encyclopedic overview

Ernest Anthony Puente Jr. (April 20, 1923 – May 31, 2000), commonly known as Tito Puente, was an American musician, songwriter, bandleader, timbalero, vibraphonist and record producer. He composed dance-oriented mambo and Latin jazz music. He was also known as “El Rey de los Timbales,” or “The King of the Timbales.”

Puente and his music have appeared in films including The Mambo Kings and Fernando Trueba's Calle 54. He guest-starred on television shows, including Sesame Street and The Simpsons episode "Who Shot Mr. Burns?".

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tito Puente” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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