| He dies in NY, victim of a cancer at the age of 67 |
| Ralph Mercado made sauce piquant to the genre |
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| 1941 - 2009. Photo: ap |
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Agencies
The recognized promoter of tropical musician Ralph Mercado died because of a cancer the evening of Tuesday, the 10th of March, at 4:30 p.m. surrounded by his wife Cynthia and five children, Debbie, Damaris, Melissa, Ralph Jr y Channel and other relatives, the publicist and familiar spokesman Blanca La le Sal reported.
Bought, of 69 years, he died in the Medical center of the University of Hackensack, in New Jersey, where it had joined for complications of an operation of cancer the brain, which was practised on him last year.
Bought, that your mor was operated of in the brain in 2006, he was the producer of the concert of “It is trellas of Fania”.
Of Dominican father and mother puer torriqueña, Market created also llo RMM, which it sold in the decade of 1990 - under which they recorded stars of the Latin music
For that we were lucky to work next to Ralph Mercado the seguira living in our hearts Daniel Bueno said one of the ex-promoters of the Metropolitan area who kept a narrow friendship with Ralph.
The musical sauce undoubtedly had his best moment thanks to the support and the form of promotion that Ralph Mercado gave him to travez of his stamp RMM, since there was who took from the hand to the success Celia Cruz and Tito, Bridge Riche Ray, Eddie Palmieri and others, you prop Tony Vega and Tito Nieves threw to the stardom to others like Marc Anthony, The India.
The salseros react
“He gave me my first opportunity in the tropical music and supported me very much in the first stages of my career. My deepest condolence for all his family”.
Marc Anthony
“I have lost a big friend and brother, one of the biggest producers in our music, Ralph was, it is and it will be a guide to continue in our music”.
Johnny Pacheco
“The tropical music loses one of the promoters who more defended and represented our genre. [Market] it was one of the figures fix in taking and supporting the sauce in the place that it occupies today.
Víctor Manuelle
“It made me sad! He loved very much Rafi”
Paquito D'Rivera
| Faranduleando |
| With Nelly Carrion |
How my dear friends, much felt with the death of our friend Ralph Mercado... only can we only remind it like him he wanted, dancing sauce.
• We are sorry to have to communicate that the guitarist “Pepe Lucho“ is in the hospital facing a serious illness. The cancer to the stomach that he endures has it at the edge of the death, his biggest desire in this moment is to return to his country to be next to his family to the one who does not see for 22 years... his big "Silly" friend is preparing a homage to be able to collect funds that allow him to be able to support his illness. The interested persons in supporting Pepe Lucho can call (703 470 - 6086.
• Next to fulfilling 15 years we have to Ruby Nicolét, his parents offer him a nice holiday on Saturday, the 21st of March. Ruby from girl had well-known presence in the world of the show business it was crowned several times and it is outlined like footbridges model... Congratulations of our part.
• This Saturday, the 14th there presents before himself in alive the ex-singer of the group Bacilos, Jorge Villamizar, the meeting with his fanaticada will be neither more nor less than in The Salsa Room (ex-Cecilias) of Virginia.
• Tony Dize comes from Puerto Rico to offer a show exclusive on April 18 in Star Lounge of Annandale in Virginia.
• Jeri Dembrak offers classes of sauce in the Havana Village, 1834 Columbia Road... a good therapy to forget the problems.
• Since we are in the topic of the sauce, I remind to them that there comes March 21 José Alberto “The canary” to the Sauce Room... there we meet.
• The pastillita for the morality of the week: In these moments of crisis it is when more we have to stay close... he remembers that the real friends are seen in the good ones and in the bad ones.
| Willie Columbus |
| He recognizes plagiarism of topic “The Band” |
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| Singer Willie Columbus photo: alvaro ortiz/wh |
Peruvian composer Walter Fuentes Barriga is the real author.
Agency
The singer, composer, arreglista and trombonista, Willie Columbus, it confronts a new accusation for musical plagiarism, this time from Peru and in indignation of a composer who declares like his the topic “The Band”.
It is a question of the Peruvian musician Walter Fuentes Barriga, who with a vinil disc in hand and a record from September, 1973 - endorsed by the Peruvian Association of Authors and Composers of Peru (Apdayc) - it demonstrates that it is an author of the letter and music of the topic, with the original name of “the band Came”.
Sources Belly it has tried several years to achieve that his demand is listened in the United States, but his little economic capacity and the void existence in Peru of lawyers specializing in copyright.
Between the tests there are not only the discs of vinil and Peruvian records of intellectual and musical responsibility, but even a Peruvian movie used the song “the Band Came” of Sources, before Columbus makes her famous in the World.
Walter Fuentes Barriga registered the above mentioned topic in March, 1974, very much before Willie Columbus it was announcing the topic. Before the evidences the representatives of Columbus offered him first 2 thousand dollars to solve the "impasse", nevertheless then they promised to deliver to him 50 thousand dollars.
Also other agreements would be achieved with Columbus, like the recognition of the topic “The Band”, as responsibility of the Peruvian, in the successive cds, mp3, or phonographic material.
| Pinocho |
| It is seventy years |
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| Picocho. Foto:AP. |
Agency AP
In 1940 the magic varita of Walt Disney was turning a child called Dick Jones into Pinocho. Now, with 82 years Dickie remembers how his voice was big enough to the tender wooden marionette.
In the celluloid she is the Blue Fairy the one that grants to Pinocho, the Gepetto marionette, the possibility of coming alive, although, in case of Dick Jones, the American quizmaster was the maker of his transformation on the contrary: of child to marionette.
| The proprietors of the show |
| Double Knife-edge in DC |
We want to present ourselves again in Washington DC, to recapture the place that we leave.”
Edgar Veloz “The Gatico”
They reappear with a lot of force on the market and come to the metropolitan area determined to recapture the seat of honor that they had years behind. The members of the Double group Knife-edge were in our writing offices and mentioned to us that they are provided with a new recording, where he emphasizes the jocular street meringue and with a lot of flavor, also they include the romantic line.
The topics that were recorded under the stamp “The Mameluke Records” are “Only I want”, “Za pa that”, “More than your friend”, topic of the responsibility of the Buky.
The renowned musician Edgar Veloz most known as the "Gatico", together with his musicians showed to feel satisfied with the result and the reception that has receiving the record material.
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