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Plena Libre have toured internationally, [3] with notable live dates including the Moroccan Fes Festival [4] in 2008, and the Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl that same year. Regarding their performance at the latter event, the LA Times praised the "sizzling Latin jazz and salsa grooves" that both Plena Libre and another act on the ...
The plena genre originated in Barrio San Antón, Ponce, Puerto Rico, [3] [4] around 1900. [5] It was influenced by the bomba style of music. [citation needed] Originally, sung texts were not associated with the plena, which was rendered by guitar, accordion and pandero, but eventually, in 1907, [citation needed] singing was added.
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Mon Rivera is the common name given to two distinct Puerto Rican musicians (both born in Mayagüez), namely Monserrate Rivera Alers (originally nicknamed Rate, later referred to as "Don Mon", or Mon The Elder, and sometimes erroneously credited as Ramón in songwriting credits) and his oldest son, Efraín Rivera Castillo (May 25, 1924 – March 12, 1978), [1] [2] (referred to early in his ...
El Niño, el Hombre, el Soñador, el Loco (The Boy, the Man, the Dreamer, the Crazy One) is a studio album by Lalo Rodríguez released in 1985. [1] This album is different from his previous two albums in that it focuses on Puerto Rico's folkloric music styles, including plena and bomba.
Fly is the tenth studio album by the Italian blues rock singer-songwriter Zucchero Fornaciari, released on 22 September 2006.The album was mostly recorded in 2006 at the Henson Recording Studios in Hollywood with producer Don Was, [1] and previewed at the historic Ca' Vendramin Calergi in Venice, on 18 September 2006.
The third track, "Baile Inolvidable", is described to be a "spiritual successor" to "Después de la Playa", and features a live salsa orchestra consisting of students from the Escuela Libre de Música in San Juan. [15] "El Clúb" is a house track with a fusion of electronic music and plena.
The Grammy Award for Best Tropical Latin Album is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, [1] to recording artists for releasing albums in the tropical latin music genres.