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Pete Rodriguez (engineer)
Pete Rodriguez may refer to: * Pete Rodriguez (American football) (1940–2014), American football coach * Pete "El Conde" Rodríguez (1932–2000), Puerto Rican salsa singer * Pete Rodriguez (boogaloo musician) Pete Rodriguez (born April 16, 1932) is an American pianist and bandleader born in The Bronx The Bronx () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the state of New York. It is south of Westchester County; north and ... (born 1932), leader and pianist of a Puerto Rican boogaloo band * Pete Rodriguez (jazz musician) (born 1969), jazz trumpeter and percussionist {{hndis, Rodriguez, Pete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete Rodriguez (American Football)
Pete Rodriguez (July 25, 1940November 30, 2014) was an American football coach of Mexican American descent. College coaching career Rodriguez broke into coaching as a graduate assistant at Arizona (1968–69) and later served as defensive coordinator at Western Illinois (1970–73), Florida State (1974–75), Iowa State (1976–78) and Northern Iowa (1986). He served as head coach at Western Illinois from 1979–82. Professional coaching career USFL Rodriguez served as defensive line coach for the Michigan Panthers of the United States Football League from 1983-84. He was part of the USFL's first championship team, helping the Panthers to the title in 1983. He spent the season as defensive line coach with the Denver Gold. CFL Rodriguez was the defensive coordinator for the Ottawa Rough Riders of the Canadian Football League in . NFL Rodriguez entered the National Football League as the Los Angeles Raiders special teams coach (1988–89). He served in a similar capacity with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete "El Conde" Rodríguez
Pedro Juan Rodríguez Ferrer (31 January 1933 – 1 December 2000), better known as Pete "El Conde" Rodríguez, was a Salsa music, salsa singer born in Sexto (Ponce), Barrio Cantera, Ponce, Puerto Rico.Ponce, Puerto Rico, Ponce, Puerto Rico. His son, also named Pete Rodriguez (jazz musician), Pete Rodriguez, is also a salsa and jazz musician. His daughter, Cita Rodriguez, is also an accomplished salsa singer. =Early Career= Rodríguez was a percussionist who started playing bongos at the age of five in his father's quartet ''El Conjunto Gondolero''. After his father's death, at age 12 he moved to The Bronx, New York City, New York, during the 1950s. He graduated from Patrick Henry High School and from The High School of Graphic Communication Arts, New York School of Printing. He worked as a printer however was denied membership in the printer’s union, "which was notorious for its discriminatory practices denied him membership." In 1953 he was drafted into the United Stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete Rodriguez (boogaloo Musician)
Pete Rodriguez (born April 16, 1932) is an American pianist and bandleader born in The Bronx, New York, to Puerto Rican parents. Biography Rodriguez's band, Pete Rodríguez y Su Conjunto, specializes in Latin boogaloo. Their most successful song, " I Like It Like That" (1967), made it to the national ''Billboard'' charts and has since been covered several times, including by the Blackout All-Stars for the soundtrack of the 1994 movie '' I Like It Like That''. It received renewed exposure as the soundtrack to the main ident at Odeon Cinemas from 1998–2003. It featured in the soundtrack of the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories on the fictitious Latin music radio station "Radio Espantoso". It, along with "Oh, That's Nice!" (1967), was then sampled in the 2018 song " I Like It" recorded by Cardi B, Bad Bunny, and J Balvin. "I Like It Like That" was also used in film Chef A chef is a trained professional cook and tradesman who is proficient in all aspects of fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |