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Willie Colón
William Anthony Colón Román (born April 28, 1950) is an American salsa musician and social activist. He began his career as a trombonist and also sings, writes, produces and acts. He is also involved in the politics of New York City. Colón is considered a pioneer of Salsa music and a best-selling artist in the genre, having been a key figure in the nascent New York City scene associated with the legendary Fania Records. He is also noteworthy for having assumed the gangster image in his album covers before it was culturally popular. Early years Colón was born in the South Bronx in New York City to Puerto Rican parents. He picked up the trumpet from a young age, and later switched to trombone, inspired by the all-trombone sound of Mon Rivera and Barry Rogers. He spent some summers at his maternal grandmother's sister's farm in the outskirts of Manatí, Puerto Rico on the road to neighboring Ciales, Puerto Rico. At the age of 15, he was signed to Fania Records, and at 17, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the List of United States cities by population density, most densely populated major city in the United States, and is more than twice as populous as second-place Los Angeles. New York City lies at the southern tip of New York (state), New York State, and constitutes the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban area, urban landmass. With over 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York is one of the world's most populous Megacity, megacities, and over 58 million people live within of the city. New York City is a global city, global Culture of New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Bronx
The South Bronx is an area of the New York City Borough (New York City), borough of the Bronx. The area comprises neighborhoods in the southern part of the Bronx, such as Concourse, Bronx, Concourse, Mott Haven, Bronx, Mott Haven, Melrose, Bronx, Melrose, and Port Morris, Bronx, Port Morris. In the early 1900s, the South Bronx was originally known as the Manor of Morrisania, as it was the manor of Lewis Morris (governor), Lewis Morris. As the Morris family continued to expand on the land, an influx of German and Irish immigrants started to populate the area, leading the Bronx to be considered the "Jewish Borough" in the 1930s. This soon changed as World War II caused rent to increase in many apartments, pushing people out. By the end of the 1950s, the South Bronx was two-thirds African American or Hispanic (of any race). The South Bronx is known for its Hip hop#Culture, hip hop culture and graffiti. Graffiti became popular in the Bronx in the early 1970s, spreading through t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wac Bataclan 2018 Wave Crowd
WAC may refer to: Arts * Walker Art Center, a modern art museum in Minneapolis, Minnesota * Walton Arts Center, a performing arts center in Fayetteville, Arkansas * Warwick Arts Centre, at the University of Warwick in Coventry, England Science * WAC (gene) * Welsh Agricultural College * World Archaeological Congress * World Association of Copepodologists * World Agroforestry Centre Sports * FAI World Aerobatic Championships * Washington Athletic Club located in Seattle, Washington * Western Athletic Conference, an NCAA Division I affiliated college athletics conference * Wiener AC, an Austrian sports club * Wolfsberger AC, an Austrian football club * Wydad AC, a Moroccan sports club Transport * Wan Chai station, Hong Kong, by MTR station code * Warrington Central railway station, England, by National Rail station code2 Other * WAC Corporal, the first U.S. sounding rocket * Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center, extension of Virginia Tech * Waste Acceptance Criteria, Europe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ASCAP Foundation
The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) () is an American not-for-profit performance-rights organization (PRO) that collectively licenses the public performance rights of its members' musical works to venues, broadcasters, and digital streaming services (music stores). ASCAP collects licensing fees from users of music created by ASCAP members, then distributes them back to its members as royalties. In effect, the arrangement is the product of a compromise: when a song is played, the user does not have to pay the copyright holder directly, nor does the music creator have to bill a radio station for use of a song. In 2021, ASCAP collected over US$1.335 billion in revenue and distributed $1.254 billion in royalties to its members. ASCAP membership included over 850,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers, with over 16 million registered works. History ASCAP was founded by Victor Herbert, together with composers George Botsford, Silvio Hein, Ir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Society Of Composers, Authors And Publishers
The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) () is an American not-for-profit performance-rights organization (PRO) that collectively licenses the public performance rights of its members' musical works to venues, broadcasters, and digital streaming services (music stores). ASCAP collects licensing fees from users of music created by ASCAP members, then distributes them back to its members as royalties. In effect, the arrangement is the product of a compromise: when a song is played, the user does not have to pay the copyright holder directly, nor does the music creator have to bill a radio station for use of a song. In 2021, ASCAP collected over US$1.335 billion in revenue and distributed $1.254 billion in royalties to its members. ASCAP membership included over 850,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers, with over 16 million registered works. History ASCAP was founded by Victor Herbert, together with composers George Botsford, Silvio Hein, I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI) is a Hispanic nonprofit and nonpartisan 501(c)(3) leadership development organization established in 1978 by organizing members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) and is headquartered in Washington D.C. For over 40 years, CHCI has served as a principal resource, curating lasting connections between promising Latino/a/Latinx leaders with corporations, government agencies, nonprofits, and various organizations. CHCI supports the continued progress of Hispanic and Latino communities, ensuring their interests are represented across all sectors of society. CHCI focuses its vision to develop educated and civic-minded Hispanic leaders, dedicated to the advancement of U.S. society. The institution is governed by voting members of its Board of Directors and supported by an Advisory Council composed of Members of Congress, corporate executives, industry experts, nonprofit leaders, and community advocates. U.S. Representative for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latino Commission On AIDS
The Latino Commission on AIDS () is an advocacy and service nonprofit membership organization formed in 1990 with a mission to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS in the Latino community in the United States of America including its territories. It is known for coordinating the National Latino AIDS Awareness Day National Latino AIDS Awareness Day (NLAAD) () takes place in the United States of America and its territories on October 15, the last day of National Hispanic Heritage Month, and aims to increase awareness of human immunodeficiency virus/acquired ...."Trinity Biotech PLC TRIB partner with Community Healthcare Network", Regulatory News Service, 26 June 2008 via factiva.com accessed 7 November 2011. References External links * , English language landing page of Latino Commission on AIDS {{Latino-stub HIV/AIDS organizations in the United States Hispanic and Latino American organizations Health in Puerto Rico Health in the United States Virgin Islands 1990 establis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It Could Happen To You (1994 Film)
''It Could Happen to You'' is a 1994 American romantic comedy-drama film starring Nicolas Cage and Bridget Fonda. In a plot inspired by a real-life news story, a New York City police officer (Cage) who is short on cash and unable to tip his waitress (Fonda), half-jokingly offers to share his winnings if he happens to win the lottery. Isaac Hayes is the film's narrator and also plays a supporting role as undercover reporter and photographer, Angel Dupree. The film was remade in Hindi as '' Bade Dilwala'', which was released in 1999 and in Telugu as ''Bahumati'' in 2007. Plot Policeman Charlie Lang is a kind and generous man who loves his job and the Queens area of New York City where he lives. His wife Muriel works in a hairdressing salon and, unlike Charlie, is selfish, greedy and materialistic, constantly complaining about their situation in life. Waitress Yvonne Biasi, is bankrupt because her husband Eddie, whom she had not yet been able to afford to divorce, took her credit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miami Vice
''Miami Vice'' is an American crime drama television series created by Anthony Yerkovich and produced by Michael Mann (director), Michael Mann for NBC. The series stars Don Johnson as James "Sonny" Crockett and Philip Michael Thomas as Ricardo Tubbs, Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs, two Miami-Dade Police Department, Metro-Dade Police Department detectives working undercover in Miami. The series ran for five seasons on NBC from 1984 to 1989. The USA Network began airing reruns in 1988 and broadcast an originally unaired episode during its syndication run of the series on January 25, 1990. Unlike standard police procedurals, the show drew heavily upon 1980s New wave music, New Wave culture and is noted for its integration of contemporary pop and rock music and stylish or stylized visuals. ''People (magazine), People'' magazine states that ''Miami Vice'' was the "first show to look really new and different since color TV was invented". Michael Mann directed a Miami Vice (film), film adaptati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Fight (film)
''The Last Fight'' is a 1983 American film directed by Fred Williamson. Plot A singer-turned-boxer signs a contract with a shady promoter. The boxer turns against the promoter and seeks revenge when the promoter's thugs kill his girlfriend when he tries backing out of the contract. Cast * Willie Colón as Joaquin Vargas * Rubén Blades as Andy "Kid" Clave * Fred Williamson as Jesse Crowder * Darlanne Fluegel as Sally * Anthony Sirico as Frankie * Joe Spinell as Angelo, The Boss * Nereida Mercado as Nancy * Vinny Argiro as Detective Pantano * Sal Carollo as Papa * Andy Gerado as Frank * Izzy Sanabria as Slim * Alex Stevens as Sal * Kurt Andon as Doctor * Marta Viana as Mama * Darlene Masucci as Pretty Girl At Party * Salvador Sánchez as himself * Don King as himself * José Torres as himself * Bert Sugar as himself (credited as "Bert Sugarman") * Tony Perez Tony may refer to: People and fictional characters * Tony (given name), including a list of people and ficti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vigilante (film)
''Vigilante'', later released on video as ''Street Gang'', is a 1982 American vigilante film directed by William Lustig and starring Robert Forster and Fred Williamson. Lustig came upon the idea for the film through a news article about "a group of blue collar workers in southern New Jersey who had organized to fight crime in their neighborhood". Plot Eddie Marino (Robert Forster) is a factory worker in New York City. He has a wife named Vickie (Rutanya Alda) and an eight-year-old son named Scott ( Dante Joseph). Eddie's friend and co-worker, Nick (Fred Williamson), and two other co-workers, Burke and Ramon, have formed a secret vigilante group because Nick and the group are fed up with the crime in their neighborhoods. Nick and his group are also tired of the police, because the police always fail to protect people. Nick's "group" has support of various residents of the neighborhood who indirectly help them. In one example, a local thug stalks and chases a young woman to a roof ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Pacheco
Juan Pablo Knipping Pacheco (25 March 1935 – 15 February 2021), known as Johnny Pacheco, was a Dominican musician, arranger, composer, bandleader, and record producer who in the 1970s became one of the leading exponents of salsa as well in the late 1950s called the pachanga, a blend of Cuban rhythms and Dominican merengue, which propelled him to worldwide fame and had an important role in the evolution of Latin music. As the founder and musical director of Fania Records, Pacheco became a leading figure in the New York salsa scene in the 1960s and 1970s. He popularized the use of the term "salsa" and established the Fania All-Stars to showcase the leading artists of the genre. Pacheco was a nine-time Grammy nominee and was awarded the Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award by the Latin Recording Academy in 2005. Early life and family Juan Pablo Pacheco Knipping was born on 25 March 1935 in Santiago de los Caballeros, a city in the Dominican Republic. He inherited his pass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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