The Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture, in association with Joe Conzo, Sr., will present a night of Latin music brilliance - "Mambo Diablo: Honoring Tito Puente," on Saturday, November 11, 2023, at ...

Tito Puente Jr. has spent a great deal of his career simply uplifting his father, magnifying the cosmic reverberations left by that singularly inventive and beloved force in music (and the world) Tito ...

“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 ...

El nombre de Tito Puente, del que mañana se cumpliría su centenario, evoca a los aficionados largas noches de baile en el Palladium de Nueva York al ritmo de música cubana del mambo, el chachachá, el ...

Friends and colleagues of Tito Puente pay homage to the late mambo and Latin jazz legend in an hour-long documentary airing this month on PBS. Friends and colleagues of Tito Puente pay homage to the ...

The late Tito Puente would have turned 100 on Thursday (April 20). In honor of his birthday and enduring musical legacy, Billboard Español has put together the ultimate playlist featuring 40 hits by ...

The legendary percussionist was influential in Latin jazz and helped popularize the Cuban dance music of mambo, and Tuesday's Doodle celebrates his long career. Steven Musil is a senior news editor at ...

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 ...

Latin music is one of music’s most diverse, influential, and exciting genres. Its roots come from traditional African music that, along with its people, made its way to Havana, New Orleans, and ...

To date, the Latin dance album that holds the record for sales remains Tito Puente's Dance Mania. Recorded in November and December of 1957 and released in early 1958, Dance Mania was the first ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By the time he was 10 or 11, Tito Puente Jr. knew his father, an iconic bandleader often referred to as the King of Mambo — or El ...