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Tito Puente on Sesame Street (03:27)

¡Arriba, muchachos! It's Latin percussionist extraordinaire Tito Puente, whose music even a grouch can't resist dancing to.

Tito Puente - Ran Kan Kan (HQ last recorded live performance) (06:15)

Tito Peunte is the most beloved symbol of Latin America

Mark-Anthony dancing to Tito Puente at Tallinn Salsa Festival 2009, farewell party, salsa social (03:43)

Mark and unknown partner dancing to Tito Puente at the Tallinn Salsa Festival 2009. farewell party

GERACOMUSIC PRESENTA A VICENTICO VALDEZ Y TITO PUENTE "DONDE ESTABAS TU" (03:10)

BONITA VERSION DE "DONDE ESTABAS TU"

Tito Puente - El Cumbanchero (03:07)

Rare, non-commercial 1965 clip of Tito Puente playing "El Cumbanchero" by Rafael Hernandez, one of the most prolific and important Puerto Rican composers of the century. This is from a tribute show to Hernandez that...

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Tito Puente Biography

Tito Puente, Sr., (April 20, 1923–May 31, 2000), born Ernesto Antonio Puente, Jr., was a Latin Jazz and Mambo musician. The son of native Puerto Ricans Ernest and Ercilia Puente, of Spanish Harlem in New York City, Puente is often credited as "El Rey" (the King) of the timbales and "The King of Latin Music". He is best known for dance-oriented mambo and Latin jazz compositions that helped keep his career going for 50 years. He and his music appear in many films such as The Mambo Kings and Fernando Trueba's Calle 54. He guest starred on several television shows including The Cosby Show and The Simpsons.

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