There’s no fanfare to greet the man credited with creating the mambo as he arrives at the Hollywood Park Casino in Inglewood. Israel “Cachao” Lopez, a Cuban music legend, just ambles in unnoticed, ...

Nine-time Grammy winner Eddie Palmieri has reigned as a true mambo king for 50 years, absorbing the sounds of Puerto Rico and New York into his particular fusion of salsa and jazz. Yet Palmieri rarely ...

Mambo king Tito Puente will be the focus point of a three-day conference at the Bronx’s Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture. According to Billboard, “Tito Puente: A 50-Year Retrospective of El Rey” ...

Lehman Center for the Performing Arts is at 250 Bedford Park Blvd, West Bronx, NY.

Long before he generated his own fans, Andy Garcia was one himself-a pesky Cuban music collector who frequented record stores in Miami. Garcia was barely in his teens but already devoted to finding ...

MIAMI – Cuban bassist and composer Israel “Cachao” Lopez, who is credited with pioneering the mambo style of music, died Saturday. He was 89. Known simply as Cachao, the Grammy-winning musician had ...

The mambo king danced until the day he died. Pedro Aguilar, 81, more commonly known as “Cuban Pete,” tapped his feet and sliced the air with his hands in his bed at Sinai Plaza Rehabilitation & ...

You may want to pay closer attention to the quiet person next to you from now on; he might not be so shy after all. Such is the case with 14-year-old Brandon Lopez of Newburgh. Anyone could mistake ...

MIAMI – Grammy-winning mambo pioneer Israel (Cachao) Lopez died Saturday at 89. Known simply as Cachao, the Cuban-born bassist and composer fell ill in the past week and died surrounded by family ...