Cancion tiemblan tito rodriguez biography

Tito Rodriguez was one of the great singers and bandleaders of the mambo era in the s and s. Born on January 4, , in San Juan, Puerto Rico, of Dominican and Cuban parentage, he moved to New York City as a teenager.

He had served in the U.S. Army and sung with Xavier Cugat and Nora Morales before he got his musical break in when he joined the band of Cuban pianist José Curbelo. Curbelo is often given credit for originating the New York mambo sound.

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In the following year Rodriguez left to form his own Mambo Devils, which recorded for Tico Records and which soon expanded from a small group into a big band, later known as the Lobos del Mambo. He later also recorded for RCA and United Artists.

His bands, along with those of Machito and Puente, dominated the mambo scene at the Palladium Ballroom in New York in the early s.

Although there was much made of Rodriguez's alleged rivalry with timbale player and bandleader Tito Puente, they had actually been friends since