21 August 1950, Puerto Rico. Since the mid-80s, the mainstream salsa recording industry in Puerto Rico and the USA has been largely preoccupied with developing and marketing the images of ‘good looking’ young male vocalists, rather than producing solid, stimulating music performed by swinging soneros (improvising salsa singers). Santa Rosa, however, who was one of
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Marc Anthony
- 67% match to Juan Luis Guerra
Marco Antonio Muñiz, 16 September 1968, New York City, New York, USA. One of the leading salsa stars of the late 90s and early 00s, Anthony began his career as a session vocalist for pop and dance acts. His Puerto Rican parents boasted a strong Latin music heritage and named their son after a Mexican singer. Under his new name, Anthony worked as a songwriter and backi
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Joe Arroyo
- 59% match to Juan Luis Guerra
Alvaro José Arroyo González, 1 November 1955, Cartagena, Colombia. Colombian superstar singer, band leader, composer, arranger and producer Arroyo has managed to cross over within the fiercely nationalistic Latin market as well as to the non-Latin market. He started his musical career as a vocalist in small groups in Cartagena and Sincelejo. He later moved to B
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Jerry Rivera
- 54% match to Juan Luis Guerra
Geraldo Rivera Rodriguez, 31 July 1973, Humacao, Puerto Rico. Raised in Levittown, near Toa Baja, Rivera sang from an early age encouraged by his parents, singers Edwin ‘Pino’ Rivera and Dominga. Father and son sang together and the former actively promoted his son’s career, recording him when he was 14 years old. This led to Jerry’s reputation quickly sp
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Bacilos
- 50% match to Juan Luis Guerra
This Miami, Florida, USA-based Latin alternative pop band was formed in the mid-90s by University of Miami students Jorge Villamizar (Colombia; vocals/guitar), André Lopes (b. Brazil; bass), and José Javier Freire (b. Puerto Rico; percussion). Despite naming themselves after a bacterium, the trio enjoyed success with their independently produced debut Madera, w
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Elvis Crespo
- 46% match to Juan Luis Guerra
30 July 1971, New York City, New York, USA. While still a small child Crespo went with his mother to live in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. There, his first interest was in baseball and he attended business school with the intention of becoming a team manager. Meanwhile, however, he had also shown an interest in music and while still in his teens joined the band of Willie Berrios an
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Luis Enrique
- 44% match to Juan Luis Guerra
Luis Enrique Mejía López, 28 September 1962, Nicaragua. Enrique was taught to play the guitar by his grandfather. Relocating to the USA in his mid-teens, he settled in Los Angeles, California where he continued to develop his musical skills, albeit largely teaching himself. He joined a local salsa band as lead singer and, encouraged by band members Alex Cobos a
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Ricardo Arjona
- 44% match to Juan Luis Guerra
19 January 1964, Antigua, Guatemala. This singer-songwriter broke into the upper regions of the Latin American charts in the late 90s with a series of well-received and often controversial albums. Arjona was born and raised in rural Guatemala, and he stayed close to his roots when, after attending college, he chose to become a teacher in a remote region of the country. In ma
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Alejandro Sanz
- 41% match to Juan Luis Guerra
Alejandro Sánchez Pizarro, 18 December 1968, Madrid, Spain. Balladeer and pop singer-songwriter Alejandro Sanz began his long, successful recording career with WEA Latina in 1991 with Viviendo De Prisa. The album established the blueprint which Sanz would mine to highly successful effect in the 90s and into the new millennium. His fourth album, 1997’s Más,
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DLG
- 41% match to Juan Luis Guerra
In May 1962, under the leadership of pianist/arranger/composer Rafael Ithier, members of Rafael Cortijo’s Combo deserted to become the 11-piece El Gran Combo (EGC). The defectors were Rogelio ‘Kito’ Vélez (d. 1990; trumpet and arrangements); Eddie Pérez and Héctor Santos (saxophones), Martin Quiñones (conga), Roberto Roena (bongo and d
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Grupo Niche
- 39% match to Juan Luis Guerra
Emanating from Cali, Colombia, Grupo Niche is led by Jairo Varela, whose many roles include composer, arranger, musical director, vocalist and percussionist. For their albums between 1981 and 1986, Niche’s salsa orquesta instrumentation included a front-line of saxophone, flute, two or three trumpets and one or two trombones, a rhythm section (timbales, conga, bongo, g&uum
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