Hey folks, Harry here... Have you become a gigantic fan of LOBO's? Well get your ass to PEASE PARK at 4pm Saturday June 3rd, where Lobo will be reenacting his all time favorite Tito Puente musical moments with spoons and champagne glasses!!! * Note: This may not happen, but you'll meet Lobo all the same!!!
This Friday night I was watching some movies and after I finished watching them, I heard that one of the greatest composers of "Latin music" passed away, TITO PUENTE "El rey del timbal". For me this is a great loss, a leaf less in our tree of the greatest. TITO will/would make you get that SABOR LATINO...
He reached the top of that tree, fame, with the Mambo fever of the 50's and helped to define Latin jazz in the last 50 years. TITO PUENTE recorded more than a 100 records in the 60 years of his musical career and got his fifth Grammy in the month of February this year for "Mambo Birdland" . I know that everyone knows his work and remembers "Guantanamera" and "Oye como va" <<<--- this one played by CARLOS SANTANA . All the music he did and the way he played those " timbales" put everybody to dance or move at least , bringing out the magic of Salsa and Mambo with his special touch,smile and charisma. Once he said; "We try to send our feelings to the people by playing our music, and the rhythm makes them happy, that's what I like...". Bill Clinton even mentioned that for more than 50 years he was more than a musician, he was a pioneer.
El rey de los timbales , probably made more people dance than any other artist of or time , most people think TITO = Baile, Fiesta, Alegria. He has a record of appereances in movies of the U.S. like "Celia Cruz & Friends" , "Romance del cumbanchero","The Mambo Kings" and "Salsa". He also had his parts on the tv-show "The Simsons".
I know his work will leave a seed in all of us and will be a great example for some others, he never stopped playing, he followed his dreams and tried to reach all of his goals.
Sadly,
LOBO
