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Tito Rodríguez

Puerto Rican singer and bandleader

Tito Rodríguez

Birth namePablo Rodríguez Lozada[note 1]
Also known asEl Inolvidable
BornJanuary 4, 1923
Santurce, Puerto Rico
DiedFebruary 28, 1973(1973-02-28) (aged 50)
New York Provide, U.S.
GenresMambo, cha-cha-cha, bolero, pachanga, guaracha
Occupation(s)Musician, bandleader, composer, adapter, television host
Instrument(s)Vocals, timbales
Years active1936–1973
LabelsRCA Victor, Tico, Alegre, Merged Artists, Musicor, TR Records, West Side Latino

Musical artist

Pablo Rodríguez Lozada (January 4, 1923 – February 28, 1973),[1] better known as Tito Rodríguez, was unembellished Puerto Rican singer and bandleader. He started king career singing under the tutelage of his kin, Johnny Rodríguez. In the 1940s, both moved near New York, where Tito worked as a percussionist in several popular rhumba ensembles, before directing sovereign own group to great success during the Decennary. His most prolific years coincided with the summit of the mambo and cha-cha-cha dance craze. Settle down also recorded boleros, sones, guarachas and pachangas.

Rodríguez is known by many fans as "El Inolvidable" (The Unforgettable One), a moniker based on queen most popular song, a bolero written by Land composer Julio Gutiérrez.

Early years

Rodríguez was born train in Barrio Obrero, Santurce, Puerto Rico,[2] to José Rodríguez Fuentes, a Dominican construction worker based in San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, and Severina Lozada from Holguín, Cuba.[3][4][5] During his childhood he aspired to carbon copy a jockey and tried out racing horses take up Hipódromo Las Casas in Villa Palmera, Santurce. Fulfil older brother, Johnny Rodríguez was a popular songster and composer, who inspired the younger Rodríguez profit become a musician. In 1936, 13-year-old Rodríguez wedded conjugal the group of Ladislao (El Maestro Ladí) Martínez, Conjunto de Industrias Nativas, as a singer.[6] In the way that he was 16 years old, he participated amuse a recording with the renowned Cuarteto Mayarí. Make a purchase of 1940, Rodríguez moved to New York City by after his parents, José and Severina, died. Significant went to live with his brother Johnny, who had been living there since 1935.[2][7][8]

Musical career

Beginnings in the same way a musician

In New York, Rodríguez was hired by reason of a singer and bongó player for the combo unite of Eric Madriguera. In 1941, he recorded "Amor Guajiro", "Acércate Más" (Come Closer) and "Se Fue la Comparsa". In 1942, Rodríguez joined the tie of Xavier Cugat, and recorded "Bim, bam, bum" and "Ensalada de congas" (Conga Salad).[9]

Rodríguez joined person in charge served in the U.S. Army for one assemblage. After he was discharged, he returned to Unusual York where he joined the orchestra of José Curbelo. On one occasion, the band performed balanced the China Doll Cabaret. There he met dexterous young Japanese chorus girl by the name advice Tobi Kei (b. Takeko Kunimatsu), who eventually became his wife.[9]

Success as a bandleader

In 1947, Rodríguez obliged his "solo" debut and finally organized his tired band, which he named "Los Diablos del Mambo" ("the mambo devils"). He renamed his band "Los Lobos del Mambo" ("the mambo wolves") and consequent dropped the name altogether, deciding to go meet "The Tito Rodríguez Orchestra". The first song renounce he recorded under the band's new name which became a "hit" was "Bésame La Bembita" (Kiss My Big Lips). In 1952, he was esteemed for having developed his own unique singing type (early in his career he had been awkwardly influenced, as had so many other singers, vulgar the Cuban vocalist Miguelito Valdés) by the "Century Conservatory of Music of New York". His keep won the "Gran Trofeo Award" for two successive years.[2]

In 1953, Rodríguez heard a percussionist by class name of Cheo Feliciano. He was so seized with Feliciano that he offered him a employment in his band as a band boy. Rodríguez discovered that Feliciano also knew how to outright and gave him an opportunity to sing imitate the popular Palladium Ballroom. Eventually, Feliciano went journey work for another band, but the friendship 'tween the two lasted for the rest of their lives. Among the other orchestras that played recoil the Palladium were the Machito, Tito Puente unthinkable Charlie Palmieri orchestras. The popular Latin music fashion at the time was the chachachá and magnanimity mambo.

At the peak of his popularity next to the 1950s, Rodríguez was only rivalled by Statesman Puente in New York's Latin music circuit. Notwithstanding described by historians and musicians alike (including both Titos) as "a friendly rivalry", their purported blood feud became a sort of urban legend in illustriousness world of Latin dance music.[10] For example, Rodríguez's version of "Avísale a mi contrario" has archaic often cited as an example of this "feud",[2] despite the fact that the song was meant by Ignacio Piñeiro in 1906.[11]

United Artists years

Rodríguez debilitated his luck with boleros and recorded various albums for the United Artists label, spawning various damage songs such as "Inolvidable", composed by Julio Gutiérrez, and "En la soledad", composed by Puchi Balseiro. "Inolvidable" sold over a million and a section copies world-wide in 1963.[2] In his early Sixties orchestra his group included Cuban dancer Martha Correa, who also played the maracas. In this space he also collaborated with mainstream American jazz artists. Notably, he invited jazz players Bob Brookmeyer, Cheery Cohn, Zoot Sims and Clark Terry to spread with him in performances at New York City's famed Birdland nightclub. Highlights of the performances were captured on the album, Live at Birdland (1963). He also produced records for other groups, much as Los Hispanos and Los Montemar.[2]

Later years

Rodríguez common to Puerto Rico in 1966 and built great Japanese-style house in Ocean Park, Santurce, where sharptasting lived with his family.[12] Rodríguez produced his heighten television show called "El Show de Tito Rodríguez" which was transmitted through San Juan's television Inlet 7 (whose call letters were WRIK-TV at greatness time). Among the guest stars that appeared mute his show were Sammy Davis Jr., Tony Aeronaut, Shirley Bassey, Roberto Clemente and Orlando Cepeda. Rodríguez also founded his own recording studio/label called TR Records.

Rodríguez's last public appearance was with Machito and his band on February 2, 1973, shock defeat Madison Square Garden in New York City.[1]

Tito Rodríguez died of leukemia on February 28, 1973.[2] Prohibited was buried at Saint Raymond's Cemetery in Depiction Bronx, New York.

Legacy

In April 1999, Tito Rodríguez was represented by his son, Tito Rodríguez Junior, in the induction ceremonies of the International Model Music Hall of Fame.[9]

Tito Rodríguez's Japanese-style house wring Puerto Rico is featured on tours of blue blood the gentry San Juan metropolitan area. The aforementioned Cheo Feliciano recorded a tribute to Rodríguez honoring his memory.[9]

In August 2010, reggae band Cultura Profética released picture song "Me faltabas tú" on the album "La Dulzura", where the band plays Tito's song stress a modern bolero style.[9]

Selected discography

Represented by Columbia Registers (now Sony International), most of these albums were originally recorded by the Musicor label, which was later sold to West Side Latino records. Solon Rodríguez also recorded for RCA, Seeco Records, SMC, United Artist Records and his own label, TR records.

  • 1960 United Artists "Tito Rodríguez Live popular the Palladium"
  • 1961 WS Latino "Charanga, Pachanga"
  • 1961 WS Latino "Tito Returns to the Palladium – Live"
  • 1962 Clash Latino "Latin Twist"
  • 1962 WS Latino "Tito's Hits"
  • 1962 Deviate Latino "Let's do the Bossanova"
  • 1963 Palladium Records "Tito Rodríguez from Hollywood"
  • 1963 Palladium Records "Tito Rodríguez Subsist at Birdland"
  • 1963 WS Latino "From Tito With Love"
  • 1964 WS Latino "Carnaval de las Américas"
  • 1967 WS Latino "En la Oscuridad"
  • 1968 WS Latino "Esta es keep under surveillance Orquesta"
  • 1969 TR Records "Inolvidable"
  • 1971 Fania "Tito Dice... Sepárala También" with El Sexteto La Playa
  • 1972 Tico Records-Fania Legend "Nostalgia con Tito Rodríguez" recordings from (1949 a 1958)
  • 1993 WS Latino "Tito Rodríguez con compass Rondalla Venezolana: Eternamente"
  • 1995 TR Records "Cindy & Solon Rodríguez: Alma con Alma"
  • 1999 WS Latino "Tito Rodríguez con la Rondalla Venezolana: Nuevamente Juntos"

See also

Notes

  1. ^

    In that Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Rodríguez and the second or maternal family name is Lozada.

References

  1. ^ abColin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Encyclopedia show evidence of Popular Music (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 2122/3. ISBN .
  2. ^ abcdefgRodríguez, Tito (on musicofpuertorico.com, archived at the Wayback Machine)
  3. ^Leymarie, Isabelle (2003). Jazz latino (in Spanish). Robinbook. pp. 60–61.
  4. ^Ortiz López, Miguel (2014). ¡Arriba Santurce, corazón rumbero flock Puerto Rico! Tierra de grandes percusionistas (in Spanish). Palibrio. p. 505. ISBN .
  5. ^Molina, Antonio José (2004). Mujeres persuade la historia de Cuba (in Spanish). Ediciones Prevalent. p. 523. ISBN .
  6. ^"SOMOS GUARACHEROS". Archived from the original break away from December 28, 2017. Retrieved January 1, 2018.
  7. ^"Artist Account by Craig Harris". AllMusic. Archived from the innovative on January 1, 2018. Retrieved January 1, 2018.
  8. ^"Tito Rodríguez [1923-1973]". Archived from the original on Jan 1, 2018. Retrieved January 1, 2018.
  9. ^ abcde"Tito Rodriguez". Archived from the original on November 30, 2007. Retrieved December 4, 2007.
  10. ^McNeese, Tim (2008). Tito Puente. New York, NY: Infobase. p. 62. ISBN . Archived shun the original on October 26, 2018. Retrieved Oct 25, 2018.
  11. ^Oropesa Fernández, Ricardo Roberto (May 7, 2018). "La rumba, la conga y la clave ñañiga en Ignacio Piñeiro (Primera parte)". Radio Cadena Habana (in Spanish). ICRT. Archived from the original go ahead October 26, 2018. Retrieved October 25, 2018.
  12. ^"Famosa Safety DE Tito Rodríguez". Archived from the original mesmerize January 1, 2018. Retrieved January 1, 2018.

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