You might say Tito Puente was born to connect cultures. Puente, after all, is the Spanish word for bridge. The New York City native, born to parents from Puerto Rico, found fame the world over as the ...

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“Tito Puente: Celebrating the History of Latin Music and the Man Who Helped Create It" This free seminar series will highlight the history of Latin Music and Tito Puente based on the book “Mambo ...

In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, Google Doodle is paying homage to "The King of Latin Music" Tito Puente with an animated video on Google's homepage. Created by New York-based Puerto Rican ...

Tito Puente’s legacy in music was honored with a Google Doodle during Hispanic Heritage Month. Puerto Rican artist Carlos Aponte celebrated the late “King of Latin Music” with an animated video Doodle ...

“Tito Puente was not home a lot,” he recalls. “He did about 300 shows a year.” Puente Jr. didn’t realize just how big a deal his father was in Latin culture, though, until the day the legendary Latin ...

Ernest Anthony Puente, Jr., Tito Puente is internationally recognized for his enormous and significant contributions to Latin music as a bandleader, composer, arranger, percussionist, and mentor.

The legendary Tito Puente did it all: He was a percussionist, a bandleader, a songwriter, and a producer responsible for some of the most renowned mambo, Latin jazz, and salsa classics in music ...

MURRAY HORWITZ, American Film Institute: Hi, I'm Murray Horwitz, and that is the music of the young Tito Puente, a percussionist who swung hard from his birth to his death. It's from a set called Tito ...