The very recent death of music, director and producer of Johnny Pacheco has allowed some avid / curious cultural curiosities to discover an unstoppable figure of the really popular musicians. Because of many other merits, in the high level of services provided by the Dominican branch the creation of one of the dream teams the most glorious musicals in history as a fan of the Fania All Stars.
Bajo is this number, in direct reference to the discographic cell that Pacheco founded in 1963 in New York with Jerry Masucci, finds an art bomb, rhythm and diversion. Because of the Stars of Fania, there was an alumni project three years after the birth of the villain diskwera y en donde se quiso reunir a lo mejor de lo mejor de la salsa, en todas sus variants y procedencias. Quizas the most spectacular sueño hecho reality by a visionary like the Fue Pacheco.
Héctor Lavoe at Madison Square Garden in 1977
Numbers like Celia Cruz, Willie Colon, Héctor Lavoe, Cheo Feliciano, Pete ‘el Conde’ Rodríguez, Ray Barretto or Larry Harlow made some – and the most known to the general public – of their integrants in this project. An idea that only solo would like to visualize and focus on a music that aspiraban to be located in the major leagues of the circuit, meaning that the international audience knows the existence of one performer and many musicians are exceptional.
Geen era tan sencillo hacer val saam en el mismo barco a algunas personalidades y egos mucados y net facilmente compatibles entre ellos. It has to do with a macroformation that envisions numerous incorporations, baths and reincorporations, the Estrellas will last for years with these series cabbages. In July 1980, a song was arranged by the United States and Latin America to respond to their recent album Connection (gira que prolongo al siguiente año, año que tocaron por prima vez in Barcelona en el Palacio de Deportes de la calle Lleida).
In this case, the Fania is trained in different Colombian cities, between them and Barranquilla. Allí, in the stadium Romelio Martínez the whole thing because the dioceses will dedicate themselves to singing the new album and not the songs that are in the mind of all. Llovieron Latas de Cerveza, Johnny Pacheco gets irritated, paro the orchestra and arranges to take the villadiego, and in that case Celia Cruz, with a lot of kindness and empathy, cantó Bemba Colorá. Al acabar tuvieron que salir protegidos par la polisie, entre ellos un asustado e hysterico Pacheco.
The most familiar image of Héctor Lavoe
Colombian periodist and writer Umberto Valverde was standing there with them and this week he will be remembered. “Next day we will stay at the Golf Hotel, with all the fans present. Hector Lavoe llegó with a guardaespaldas or assistant that he ayudaba to vestirse. Lavoe is watching a game of orange and mirandome, sonriendo, me dijo:
–Chico, the problem of the Fania is that it has a lot of stars and little sky ”.