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Juan Pablo Knipping Pacheco (25 March 1935 – 15 February 2021), [1] known as Johnny Pacheco, was a Dominican musician, arranger, composer, bandleader, and record producer. Born in the Dominican Republic , Pacheco became a leading figure in the New York salsa scene in the 1960s and 1970s as the founder and musical director of Fania Records .
Salsa idol Johnny Pacheco, who was a co-founder of Fania Records, Eddie Palmieri’s bandmate and backer of music stars such as Rubén Bladés, Willie Colón and Celia Cruz, died Monday. In a post ...
Fania Records is a New York–based record label founded by Dominican-born composer and bandleader Johnny Pacheco and his American lawyer Jerry Masucci in 1964. [1] [2] The label took its name from a popular luncheonette frequented by musicians in Havana, Cuba that Masucci frequented when he worked for a public relations firm there during the pre-Castro era.
Celia & Johnny is the first collaborative album between the duo of Celia Cruz and Johnny Pacheco.It was released in 1974 by Vaya Records. [3] In 2014, the Library of Congress named it to the National Recording Registry as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". [4]
Pacheco had been hospitalized in New Jersey for undisclosed reasons. No cause of death was reported. Johnny Pacheco, salsa music bandleader, composer and Fania Records co-founder, dies at 85
Celia Cruz in Havana, 1957 "Quimbara" is a song performed by Cuban recording artist Celia Cruz and Dominican recording artist Johnny Pacheco.The song written by 20 year old Junior Cepeda from Puerto Rico, was released as the lead single from Cruz and Pacheco's joint studio album Celia & Johnny (1974).
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The lead single, first track, and title track, "La Negra Tiene Tumbao" combines elements of salsa music, reggae music and hip hop music. [6] The song's title translates (from Cuban slang Spanish, as in music of Afro-Cuban origin, tumbao is the basic rhythm played on the bass) to "The Black Woman has Style" or "The Black Woman has Attitude". [7]