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Tito Puente
Sign in to saveAlso known as Ernesto Antonio Puente, Ernesto Antonio "Tito" Puente
American musician (1923-2000)
Film & TV
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
Discography
Member of
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 366,424
- Total plays
- 2,763,750
Tags
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
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
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Place of death
- New York City
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Genre
- salsa
- Instrument
- timpani
- Conflict
- World War II
- Military branch
- United States Navy
- Image
- Tito Puentes.jpg
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- Commons category
- Tito Puente
- date of birth
- 1923-04-20
- date of death
- 2000-06-01
- manner of death
- cardiac surgery
- name in native language
- Tito Puente
- place of burial
- Woodlawn Cemetery
- start of work period
- 1946-00-00
- birth name
- Ernesto Antonio Puente
- writing language
- English language
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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.