Tito Puente

Person · Open Library

Born

1923

Works

2

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

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Country

United States

Active from

1923

Active to

2000

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

366,424

Total plays

2,763,750

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

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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