Ray Barretto
Birthday: 1929-04-29
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Biography: Ray Barretto was an American percussionist and bandleader of Puerto Rican ancestry. Throughout his career as a percussionist, he played a wide variety of Latin music styles, as well as Latin jazz.
Movies
Nueva York: A Musical History of Latin New York
When the film West Side Story was released in 1961, New York's reviled Puerto Rican community gained...
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Our Latin Thing (Nuestra Cosa)
Leon Gast's musical documentary reveals New York City's Latin culture and features live performances...
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Salsa
The Fania All Stars perform for 44,000 fans at Yankee stadium in New York. Besides concert footage, ...
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Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
During the same summer as Woodstock, over 300,000 people attended the Harlem Cultural Festival, cele...
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A Walking Tour of Sesame Street
Sesame Street celebrated its 10th anniversary in the spring of 1979 with a half-hour PBS special hos...
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Beats of the Heart: Salsa
'Salsa' captures a unique moment in time for this most exuberant and socially dynamic music....
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Money
A young man whose father's fortune was stolen by his closest friends sets out to get revenge in this...
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From Mambo to Hip Hop
Through interviews and performance clips, filmmaker Henry Chalfant explores the history of music in ...
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