We go Salsa dancing with the 70s and evoke other great figures of that golden age of Salsa. We can not forget that there existed in many cases left few notable recording groups, but now, after almost 44 years are staggering by the aggressiveness of their sound and originality of repertoire handled. So today to welcome guests to december we have these great:
The Orchestra Dicupé
Was founded by two brothers Dicupé, two trumpeters, and that apart from leading the orchestra were the brass section. Launched in 1972 to market its first CD entitled “Orchestra Dicupé” a very interesting album with the participation of the Dicupé brothers in the trumpets, and arrangements of pianist Luis Esquiline. Another of his productions was “Aqui Llegamos” and shook the market with legends such as Adalberto Santiago, Ismael Miranda, Ismael Quintana, towers and Junior Roberto Gonzales on vocals. Let’s listen to some songs of the year 1972 produced by Larry Harlow.
Orquesta Conspiración
Ernie August and Orchestra recorded the album Conspiracy “Ernie’s Conspiracy” in 1972 on Fania Records, and the album still sounds fresh enough to challenge salsa bands today. The producer was Willie Colon who certainly demanded a good sound and perfection, and sound engineer was Jon Fausty, winner of several Grammy awards, who credits this album as the first had the pleasure of working with Willie. There are few albums featuring various characteristics that you will find when you hear and enjoy “Ernie’s Conspiracy.”
Fruko y sus Tesos
A Colombian musical group led and directed by Julio Ernesto Estrada, known as Fruko. That was the origin of the name of the group and its Tesos Fruko; being “teso” synonymous with “stiff” implied that were “ward leaders.”
In the mid 1970s, the music of Fruko y sus Tesos, with the voices of Edulfamid “Piper Pimienta” Diaz, Joe Arroyo and Wilson Saoko, was very popular, not only in Colombia but also in the rest of Latin America. They reached a certain musical success in the United States, and even played at Madison Square Garden and managed to earn the magazine award for Best World Record orchestra of tropical Latin music.
Nacho Sanabria
Its protagonist was the versatile singer and dancer Ignacio “Nacho” Sanabria Vázquez-Maysonet, one of the most emblematic figures of sound catalog, whose art he managed to win over the current market.
The heyday for grouping Nacho Sanabria was, in turn, the period in which the Puerto Rican salsa voices of New York consolidated their power in commercial circuits driven by the monopoly established the Fania record company.
Rey Roig
Reinaldo Godinez Roig, joined very young the whole salsa scene from his 14 years was by famous orchestras such as the Conjunto Casino, the Joint Luis Santi and “The Youth Key” for trumpet. Thanks to his great musical culture, comes to New York in search of new collaborations; there is consolidated as a composer and arranger for large formations. Americanized his name in “King Roig ‘and is charged with forming an orchestra for the opening of one of the largest ballrooms in the Bronx: the” Bronx Casino “.
The Lebron Brothers
In the world of salsa a group achieved success because he could merge the soul and rhythm & blues sound with afroantillano and thus conquer the Caribbean public and African American. This is Los Hermanos Lebron skilled creators of funky blues in the late 1960s were the ones who inserted the lyrics in English and added some flavor of gospel movement sauce.
For many, Los Hermanos Lebron, an institution within the music of the Caribbean, are the first to use the word Salsa. From Salsa and control everything that was known as son, mambo, guaracha or guaguancó, was renamed as salsa.
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