In one of the most recent February holidays in New York, Johnny Pacheco received this domino the calorie of his Dominican compatriots that he kept a home post.
A large retreat of Pacheco sobresalia over the multitude that congregates on Avenue Broadway and Calle 175, in the Plaza de Las Américas, in front of the United Palace Theater, in Alto Manhattan.
Decades of people, in their Dominican and Puerto Rican mayors, accompanied by the vigilante motivated by Elías Barrera Corporán, member of the Dominican Consulate in New York, and the chronicler Roberto Gerónimo.
Barrera Corporán resaltó que Pacheco puso el nombre de su pais en alto: “Siempre fue a Africa o Europa y siempre puso el nombre Dominikana en grande, gracias Johnny Pacheco por tu música, gracias por tu vida”.
Between the present estuvieron the congressman Adriano Espaillat, of District 13, Councilor Ydanis Rodríguez of District 10, Councilor José Rivera.el periodicals Felix Jerez, Leon Tizol, Empress Alex Masucci (hermano of Jerry Masucci, co-founder of La Fania All Stars), Emperor Cirilo Moronta, conductor Sandy Ravelo and Johnny, Ellis Pacheco.
“There was a great icon of music, launching salsa, which I despise here, in this city, the Madison (Square Garden) with the Fania All Stars, yaa la misma vez launching music at an international level and conquering the world with its rhythmic rhythm of the salsa, with its montuno and with its great clave and music of the salsa, which is a very authentic neoorquino rhythm, because it is not necessary in Puerto Rico, nor in Cuba or the Dominican Republic, in the New York ”, manifesto Espaillat en el acto.
The Dominican Congress announced that March will present a resolution at the Congress of United States in order to declare Johnny Pacheco’s day in this country and that way will always be recorded.
The “Zorro de Plata” salsa resonates with the Plaza Las Américas and the applause completeaban the atmosphere that recorded the music failed the past moon, to the 85 years of edad.
+ Loose funerals
The body of Pacheco, co-founder of cello Fania, which is composed of stars of Latin salsa music, will be held next March 23 by the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home in Manhattan, informs the family.
The rest of Pacheco’s descends in the Woodlawn Cementio in the Bronx, where he was also killed by Celia Cruz and his sister Pedro Knight, and hogar final music like pianist Duke Ellington and trumpeter Miles Davis.
Percussionist and composer Juan Zacarías Pacheco Knnipping, namesake Johnny Pacheco, born March 25, 1935 in Santiago de Caballeros, in the north of the Dominican Republic, and emigrated nine with his family to New York, where he started studies and musical formation.
Pacheco, whose family radiates in the Bronx, consists of the large number of its exits carrying more than 150 songs, many of which have been converted into classics, such as “La Dicha Mía”, “Quítate Tu Pa’Ponerme Yo”, “Acuyuye “,” El Faisán “or” El Rey De La Puntualidad “, Lavoe’s distinctive theme.
El dominicano fue propulsor de la Fania, a part of the decade of 1970, has an entre sus integrantes of Celia Cruz, Héctor Lavoe and Pete “El Conde” Rodríguez, ya fallecidos, as como in Willie Colón, Rubén Blades y otros musical reconocidos.