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Puerto Rican rock music groups (2 C, 10 P) ... Chantelle (band) Las Cheris; Circo (band) Coro de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Puerto Rico;
Andrés Jiménez Hernández, popularly known as "El Jíbaro" (born July 3, 1947 in Orocovis, Puerto Rico), is a composer and singer of traditional Puerto Rican folk music (jíbaro music) and is that music genre's best known contemporary trovador (troubadour, i.e., singer) linked to the Neofolkloric movement of the Nueva Canción (New Song).
Jose Vazquez-Cofresi is an American conga drummer, bandleader, composer and producer of Puerto Rican & Italian ancestry.He is also called Manos de Hierro, literally translated ‘Iron Hands’, a name given to him by a salsa bass player.
Two members of the Puerto Rican doo-wop group The Eternals, popular in the late 1950s with Billboard chart hit, talk of the group's contributions to the genre.
The music culture in Puerto Rico during the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries is poorly documented. Certainly, it included Spanish troubadour, church music, military band music, and diverse genres of dance music cultivated by the jíbaros and enslaved Africans and their descendants. While these later never constituted more than 11% of the island's ...
Ileana Mercedes Cabra Joglar [1] (born April 28, 1989), known professionally as Ile (stylized as iLe), is a Puerto Rican singer and songwriter. She began her musical career during her teenage years as a backing vocalist for Calle 13 under the stage name PG-13, a group she took part in for 10 years alongside her brothers René Pérez Joglar and Eduardo Cabra Martínez ().
La Brega: Stories of the Puerto Rican Experience is a seven part bilingual podcast produced in collaboration by WNYC Studios and Futuro Studios and hosted by Alana Casanova-Burgess. The show explores Puerto Rican culture and history and is created and produced by Puerto Ricans including the music and illustrations.
They adopted the name Puya in 1994, which is Spanish for "sharp point", [4] but is also a popular type of Puerto Rican coffee. [5] Puya was the first Puerto Rican rock band to achieve a high level of international success. [6] In 1995, Puya released their self-titled debut album under the Noiz Boiz label, but did not sign with the label. [5]