Johnny Pacheco, the director of the Dominican Orchestra who was one of the founders of the discographic cell that was converted into a salsa at a global sensation, made fun of the Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck, New Jersey. She lived 85 years and lived in Fort Lee, New Jersey.
His wife, María Elena Pacheco, known as Cuqui, confirmed the decision.
Fania Records, the discographic cello that Pacheco founded with Jerry Masucci in 1964, contrasts with the most brilliant talents of Latin music of the 1960s and 1970s such as Celia Cruz, Willie Colón, Héctor Lavoe and Rubén Blades. Pacheco, a talented flutist, opened the truck inside and drove the stage, working as a composer, fan list and leader of Fania All Stars, the first superband of the salsa.
From the principle, collaborating with young musicians like mezclaban jazz, rhythm and blues, funk and other styles with traditional Afro-Cuban music.
For those years ago, the Fania, once called the Motown of the Salsa, was a power of Latin music and the Fania All Stars had to turn the world upside down. The disco will feature live fire collaborations, such as the Colon, composer and trombonist and Blades, a song and lyricist with social conscience, and cult heroes like Lavoe, the poor singer who fights with the addiction to drugs and murmur side a los 46 years.
Medias from the previous year unveiled the Fania, between demands for regalia and in 2005, Emusica, a Miami company, bought its catalog and empress to launch remastered versions of its classic grabs.
Juan Azarías Pacheco Knipping died March 25, 1935 in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic. Su padre, Rafael Azarias Pacheco era en renombrado clarinetist and director of orchestra. His mother, Octavia Knipping Rochet, was the daughter of a French colonizer and the daughter of a German merchant who lived with a Dominican hen of Spanish colonizers.
The family moved to New York when Johnny was 11 years old and studied percussion at the Juilliard School of Music and worked with Latin bands before he met in 1960, Pacheco and his charanga.
The company band with Alegre takes on and sells more than 100,000 copies in the first year and is converted into one of the Latin albums bestsellers of its era, following its official website. Pacheco’s career was conquered by an success and impetus in presenting a lucrative rhythm known as pachanga. Converted to an international flight that takes you through the United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America.
Fania Records the birth of the improbable collaboration between Pachecho and Masucci, an exhibition translated into English by Latin music during a visit to Cuba.
From its humble origins in Harlem and the Bronx, from the releases of the car wrecks, the Fania has its urban sensibility in Latin music. This company has used the number of salsa as part of its marketing strategy.
Guided by Pacheco, the artists will build a new sound based on traditional rhythms and the generation of his Cuban for the most fast and aggressive. Lots of lyrics about racism, cultural organism and the tumultuous politics of the era, many of them are related to the rural and romantic scenes of the traditional Cuban songs.
In this sense, the salsa was ‘local production music music that formed part of the musical panorama like jazz, rock or hip-hop’ written by Jody Rosen in The New York Times in 2006 with the motive of relaunching the masterpieces of Fania, liege that estuvieron accumulates humidity in an almshouse in Hudson, New York.
Pacheco collaborated with Cruz on the principles of the last year. His first disco, “Celia & Johnny,”, was a powerful salsa mix of duration and virtuoso stripes and virtuoso acts. Soon the song, thanks to Cruz’s vocal prose and the direction of Pacheco’s orchestra will be performed. The first single, “Quimbara”, a fast-paced rhythm song, helped launch Cruz’s career in the status of salsa queen.
Ambos launches more than 10 discos; Pacheco was the producer of the last disc of the soloist “La negra tiene tumbao”, which won the Grammy best album in salsa in 2002.
To the fullest of the years, Pacheco produces discos for various artists, acts all over the world and contributes to sonic bands of films, between them of Los reyes del Mambo, a 1992 film based on the novel by Oscar Hijuelos The reigns of mambo tocan love songs. Also participated in the movie Algo salvaje by Jonathan Demme, working with David Byrne, leader of the Talking Heads band in one of his numbered and eclectic collaborations.
Pacheco, which received numerous awards and distinctions in the Dominican Republic as a United States, entered the Salon de la Fama Internacional de la Música Latina in 1998. I wrote more than 150 songs, many of them now classic.
During many years he led the Latin Jazz and Music Festival Johnny Pacheco at Lehman College in the Bronx, an annual event in collaboration with the university (broadcast live in the last few years) that offers a screenplay for hundreds of talented young people studying music schools in New York.
In addition to his wife, the Pacheco family was integrated into their two wives, Norma and Joanne; y sus dos hijos, Elis y Phillip.
The salsa phenomenon that Pacheco created new highs on August 23, 1973 with a volcanic spectacle that took place in the stadium of the Yankees donde, led by Pacheco that lucía his team of emperors empadada in the south, the Fania Stars lder musical frenzy to 40,000 admirers. The concierto mentions the legendary statue of the band and Pacheco.
In 1975, Fania released the much-hoped-for double album ‘Live at Yankee Stadium’ which, despite its number, also included material from a concert at the Coliseo Roberto Clemente in Puerto Rico that had much better sound quality. The Disco of the Fania All Stars is his first Grammy nomination in the category of best Latin grabbing.
In 2004, the Library of Congress added to the National Registry of United States Gravities.
Michael Levenson collaborated on this report.