The Ministry of Culture unveiled a wall in honor of the former “salsa master” Johnny Pacheco, who passed away on February 15, 2021 in New York on the grounds of a scandal. Tenía 85 years of age.
The act was captured by the Minister of Culture, Carmen Heredia, in the Plaza de la Cultura Juan Pablo Duarte, where it was inaugurated that it projects the trayectoria of the legend of tropical music that nation in Santiago de los Caballeros.
El muurschildering, ubicado detrás de la Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña, deja plasmado el legado del destacado composer, arreglista, músico en crreador de la Fania All Stars.
Minister Heredia was accompanied by Deputy Ministers Giovanny Cruz, Creativity and Popular Participation; Fernando Antonio Cruz (Bonny Cepeda), of Decentralization and Territorial Coordination, and Director of Ethics and Governmental Integrity, Milagros Ortiz Bosch. Además, the senator for the province of Duarte, Franklin Romero and the governor of the Plaza de la Cultura Juan Pablo Duarte, Miguelina Cepeda.
Asimismo, estuvieron bid personalities of artistic ambition, as well as the ambassador of the European Union, Gianluca Grippa, and the ambassador of France, Eric Fournier.
The title of Culture Manifesto states: “Johnny Pacheco, a pheasant who despises our tyrants, singing in the Habana and sounding in the world enter. Desde tu quimbara, hasta tu guaguancó. A large repertoire of text from a story of a rumba.
“Dear Johnny, your party is arguably a national duel. In the name of all the Dominican people, thank you very much “, concluded the Minister of Culture Carmen Heredia.
También, Deputy Minister Fernando Antonio Cruz (Bonny Cepeda), resigned the salsa master’s legacy Johnny Pacheco.
The mural was made by the Dominican artists Johann Báez (Dovente), Gabriel Doñé (Shak), Néstor Omar García (Angurria) and the Puerto Rican artist David Sepúlveda, known as “Don Rimx”.
The plastic artists agradecieron al Ministio de Cultura el apoyo y, a la vez, let them have the privilege of enaltecer with their talent and creativity the figure of one of the maximum musical ambassadors of the Dominican Republic in the world.
To finalize the act, the Bonyé group performs various musical pieces, including those featuring Primoroso cantar, Kimbara, Blanca, Besito de coco, Como cocina la gorda, Esencia del guaguancó, Las muchachas y Sonero. On this occasion, the Bonyé group was accompanied by a group of Salsa Crew academics.
+ Johnny Pacheco Semblanza
Juan Pablo Pacheco Knipping, known as Johnny Pacheco, was born on March 25, 1935 in the city of Santiago de Caballeros, and emigrated from New York with his family, initiating his studies and musical formation. He is a musician, flutist, composer, arranger, director and producer of Cuban music and other Caribbean rhythms, such as salsa.
It was considered one of the most influential figures in Latin and Caribbean music, by being the co-founder of Jerry Masucci’s cello Fania.
Created the “salsa” musical concept creator, applied to the native rhythms in the Antilles’ Caribbean Sea, mainly Cuba, Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, and has its own rhythmic and direct origins in guaracha.