Tito Puente
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Ernest Anthony Puente Jr., commonly known as Tito Puente, was an American musician, songwriter, bandleader, timbalero, vibraphonist and record producer. He composed dance-oriented mambo and Latin jazz
Puente in 1996
Puente at the Village Gate, in the 1980s
Puente's timbales in the Tito Puente exhibit in the Artist Gallery of the Musical Instrument Museum of Phoenix
Timbales on display at the Smithsonian
Celia Cruz
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Celia Caridad Cruz Alfonso, known as Celia Cruz, was a Cuban-American singer and one of the most popular Latin artists of the 20th century. Cruz rose to fame in Cuba during the 1950s as a singer of gu
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…song "Oye Cómo Va" (1963), popularized by Latin rock musician Carlos Santana and later interpreted, among others, by Julio Iglesias, Irakere and Celia Cruz. In 1969, he received the key to the City of New York from former Mayor John Lindsay. In 1992, he was inducted into the National Congressional Record…
Cruz in 1957
Celia Cruz in the 1950s with the members of the Sonora Matancera in Havana
Cruz with her husband Pedro Knight, c. 1962
Celia Cruz performing in Paris at the Olympia in 1980