From Latin Tinge to Latin Takeover
The history and impact of Latin music in the United States
What exactly does "Latin music" mean, and how has it evolved in the United States from an exotic sound that influenced American musicians to niche music made by and for the Spanish-language immigrant population, to an important bilingual American music genre and industry?
America The Beautiful - Caliente Y Picante, A Latino Session This is the second take of America The Beautiful from the Calinete Y Picante performance in Los Angeles, 1989. Esteban Steve Jordan, Celia Cruz, Tito Puente, Poncho Sanchez, Jerry Garcia, Carlos Santana, Ruben Blades No copyright infringement is intended.
Tito Puente Celia Cruz, Jerry Garcia, Carlos Santana and more perform "America the Beautiful"
1930 Don Aizpiazú and his Havana Casino orchestra perform "El Manisero" in concert in New York. The song, an adaption of a street seller's cry, which becomes widely known by its title in English, "The Peanut Vendor," is the first major Latin hit song in the United States.
In 1930 Don Azpiazu Havana Casino Orchestra invaded the US in the 1930 with EL MANICERO. Here you will see this historical orchestra of the 1930 playing their most famous song and the famous ANTONIO MACHIN as the main singer.
1940 Brazilian Carmen Miranda stars in her first Hollywood film, Down Argentine Way. Many Americans confusion about whether or not Argentina is actually in Brazil continues today.
1941 Cuban conguero Chano Pozo debuts with Dizzy Gillespie's orchestra. Together they wrote the piece that heralded the beginning of Latin jazz.
Dizzy describes composing Manteca with Chano Pozo. "It was similar to a nuclear weapon when it burst on the scene. They'd never seen a marriage of Cuban music and American music like that before."
1950s The mambo sweeps the U.S.
PAGINA OFICIAL PARA FANÁTICOS DE "PEREZ PRADO" http://www.facebook.com/pages/Perez-Prado/365357323509120 Pérez Prado ejecutó en 1947, el mambo QUE RICO EL MAMBO, usando la orquesta tipo jazzband, haciendo una reestructuración distinta del nuevo ritmo en las sonoridades de trompetas y saxos, con percusión cubana y un desarrollo melódico sobre la base de esquemas percusivos en secuencias.
1962 Bossa Nova comes to Carnegie Hall, with a concert that featured Antonio Carlos Jobim, Joao Gilberto, and other artists from Rio's new wave. Two years later, Gilberto and American jazz musician Stan Getz release "The Girl From Ipanema," sung by Astrud Gilberto.