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José Feliciano performing
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Pablo Casals
Musicians
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Pablo Casals (1876-1973)
albums, and in 1969 won
Grammy Awards for Best New
Artist of the Year and for Best
Pop Song of the Year. His most
famous album is
Felíz Navidad
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Jennifer Lopez (b. 1969)
Spanish-born Casals began
playing musical instruments at
the age of four. He made his
debut at Carnegie Hall in 1904
and thereafter built a reputation
as the world's premier cellist. He
settled in Puerto Rico in 1956,
where he later established the
annual Casals Festival
(see p42)
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Santos Colón (1922-98)
This multi-talented
entertainer, nicknamed J.Lo,
enjoys great success as a singer,
song-writer, and actress. She has
sold more than 50 million albums
worldwide and has her own per-
fume brand and fashion line. She
is married to Marc Anthony.
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Marc Anthony (b. 1968)
This salsa singer, also known
as “Santito,” produced many
popular albums. He also performed
with Tito Puente's orchestra, with
whom he contributed the easily
recognizable “Aha! Aha!” in the
original version of the song
Oye
Como Va
. Colón is best known
for his haunting bolero
songs
and Spanish interpretations of
English-language classics.
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Tito Puente (1923-2000)
A singer-songwriter and
actor, Marc Anthony has cross-
over success in both English and
Spanish markets for his salsa and
Latin-pop renditions. He started
as a back-up singer and released
his first album in 1993. Anthony
married Jennifer Lopez in 2004.
Born in New York to Puerto
Rican parents, Ernesto Antonio
Puente studied at the Julliard
School of Music after serving in
the US Navy during World War II.
He helped popularize mambo,
and later, salsa, and earned
the nickname “King of Latin
Music” for his sensuous, fast-
paced mambo and Latin-jazz
compositions. He won five
Grammy Awards.
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José Feliciano (b. 1945)
Feliciano, a blind guitarist
from Lares, began performing
professionally at 17. He had huge
hits with bolero and folk-pop-soul
Jennifer Lopez and husband Marc Anthony
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