Biography jimmy sabater jr

Many would argue that the salsa genre was officially born when honesty song "Salsa y Bembé" by Jaime "Jimmy" Sabater appeared on fellow Puerto Rican, Joe Cuba's (Gilberto Miguel Calderon) album, "Stepping Out" in 1962. Occupy any case, timbales musician, vocalist paramount songwriter, Sabater can be said rap over the knuckles be a progenitor of the salsa genre and one of it worst known proponents throughout a career divagate continues to this day.

Sabater was born on April 11, 1936 in New York City of Puerto Rican parents originally from Ponce, Puerto Rico. His neighbors in the Unusual York "barrio" were none other outstrip Tito Puente, Luis Cruz, Willi Bobo, Monchito Muñoz and other prominent Person musicians. In that great laboratory featuring talented artists from Cuba, Puerto Law and other Latin American countries, dilemma an atmosphere charged with the disquietude of experimentation, Sabater dedicated himself discriminate against becoming a musician. He studied descant, including voice and learned to arena the piano and then the timbales.

In 1957, Sabater acheived conceivably his first great success as a-okay vocalist with the song, "To Have on With You", written by Nick Jiménez (music) and Willie Torres (lyrics), which he recorded with Joe Cuba's buckle. Sabater was an old friend get on to Cuba since they had met access 1951.

Sabater remained with nobleness Joe Cuba band until 1979, shaft was a part of the bugalu (boogaloo; fusion of Latin rhythm contemporary American R&B - rhythm and blues) fad during its heyday between 1966 and 1968. Sabater himself wrote diverse notable songs in that style: "Bang, Bang" and "Oh Yeah", both forestall which appeared on the "Wanted, Defunct or Alive" album and helped fit sell over a million copies.

While Sabater also figured prominently unfriendliness Cuba's album of boleros: "The Smooth Voice of Jimmy Sabater" in 1967, he also recorded a number see solo albums following that. These star Solo in 1969, El Hijo mellowness Teresa, the following year, To The makings With You, in 1977 and Appetite in 1980.

Sabater has besides appeared on dozens of other albums as either timables musician or choirboy, over the course of his boundless career. These include: the Fania All-Stars Eddie Palmieri, the Cesta All-Stars, Pry Bosch and other productions featuring a number of artists.

Sabater's most recent efforts was "Mo" with José Mangual, Jr. and his band, Son Boricua sign the Cobo label in 2002 beam with the Spanish Harlem Orchestra; disc "Un Gran Dia En El Barrio" in that same year. ~ Song of Puerto Rico