This is a list of
Puerto Rican songwriters
This is a list of Puerto Rican songwriters. It includes people who were born in Puerto Rico, people who are of Puerto Rican ancestry, and many long-term residents and/or immigrants who have made Puerto Rico their home, and who are recognized for th ...
. It includes people who were born in Puerto Rico, people who are of Puerto Rican ancestry, and many long-term residents and/or immigrants who have made Puerto Rico their home, and who are recognized for their songwriting work. Entries are in alphabetical order by first name.
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Americo Boschetti
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Ăngel "Cucco" Peña
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Antonio CabĂĄn Vale
Antonio CabĂĄn Vale, a.k.a. "El Topo" (born November 22, 1942), is a guitarist, singer and composer of Puerto Rican folkloric themes. He is one of the founders of the "new song" movement (Spanish: ''nueva canciĂłn'') of the early 1970s. His danz ...
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Arturo Somohano
Arturo Somohano Portela (September 1, 1910 – March 23, 1977) was a musical composer and director of the San Juan Symphony Orchestra, which is now named after him.
Early years
Somohano, born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, had always been musical ...
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Bobby CapĂł
FĂ©lix Manuel "Bobby" RodrĂguez CapĂł (January 1, 1922 – December 18, 1989) was a Puerto Rican singer and songwriter. He usually combined ballads with classical music and was deeply involved in Puerto Rican folk elements and even Andalusi ...
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Bobby Cruz
Bobby Cruz (born February 2, 1937), is a salsa singer and religious minister. He was part of the duo Richie Ray & Bobby Cruz. Both Cruz and Ray became religious ministers and as such founded over 70 Christian churches during the time they retired ...
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Braulio Dueño Colón
Braulio Dueño ColĂłn (March 26, 1854 â April 4, 1934) was a Puerto Rican musician and composer.
Early years
Dueño was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. At a young age Dueño's father, who also loved music, taught him the basics of music and s ...
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Carlos Ponce
Carlos Armando Ponce Freyre Jr. (born September 4, 1972) is a Puerto Rican actor, musician, model, and television personality. Ponce began his acting career by participating in Spanish language soap operas for Televisa and Telemundo. Ponce contin ...
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ArĂstides Chavier ArĂ©valo
ArĂstides Chavier ArĂ©valo (3 September 1867 â1942) was a Puerto Rican pianist, modernism composer, musicologist and music author from Ponce, Puerto Rico.
Early years and schooling
Chavier Arévalo was born in Ponce on 3 September 1867. In ...
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Daddy Yankee
RamĂłn Luis Ayala RodrĂguez (born February 3, 1976), known professionally as Daddy Yankee, is a Puerto Rican rapper, singer, composer, and actor. Known as the " King of ReggaetĂłn" by music critics and fans alike, he is the artist who coined ...
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DrÀco Rosa
Draco Cornelius Rosa SuĂĄrez (; born Robert Edward Rosa SuĂĄrez, June 27, 1969), also known as Draco Rosa, Robi Draco Rosa or simply Robi or Draco, is a Puerto Rican singer, musician, songwriter and entrepreneur.
Rosa originally garnered fame ...
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Ednita Nazario
Edna MarĂa Nazario Figueroa (born April 11, 1955) is a Puerto Rican musician, singer, and composer who has achieved stardom both at home and abroad. She has been in the music business from a young age and has released twenty-three (23) studio ...
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Edwin Perez (singer)
The name Edwin means "rich friend". It comes from the Old English elements "ead" (rich, blessed) and "Æżine" (friend). The original Anglo-Saxon form is EadÆżine, which is also found for Anglo-Saxon figures.
People
* Edwin of Northumbria (died ...
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Eladio Torres
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Elvis Crespo
Elvis Crespo DĂaz (born July 30, 1971) is an Puerto Rican singer and songwriter of the Merengue genre. He has won multiple awards, including a Grammy and a Latin Grammy Award in merengue.
Early years
Crespo was born in New York City and was na ...
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Glenn Monroig
Glenn Monroig (born April 22, 1957), is a Puerto Rican composer, guitarist, and singer of various types of music styles, such as salsa, boleros and rumba. He is credited with having recorded the first rap song in Spanish.
Biography
Early year ...
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Gloria GonzĂĄlez
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Gustavo Laureano
Gustavo Laureano is a Puerto Rican guitarist and composer. He is best known for being the lead singer of the band La Secta AllStar.
Career
As a songwriter and solo artist
Laureano began his career as a songwriter, together with friend Mark Ki ...
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Herman Santiago
Herman Santiago (born February 18, 1941) is a Puerto Rican rock and roll pioneer and songwriter who was previously a member of the vocal group Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers. He (disputedly) co-wrote the group's iconic hit " Why Do Fools Fall i ...
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Ignacio Peña
Ignacio Peña Vidal (born 21 April 1973) is a Puerto Rican rock singer/songwriter, musician, producer, video director and editor, and multimedia creator.
After graduating from Berklee College of Music, Berklee College of Music in Boston, Peña ...
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Ivy Queen
Martha Ivelisse Pesante RodrĂguez (born March 4, 1972), known professionally as Ivy Queen, is a Puerto Rican singer, rapper, songwriter, and actress. She is considered one of the pioneers of the reggaeton genre, commonly referred to as the Qu ...
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Janid
Janid Ortiz, known as Janid, is a Puerto Rican singer, songwriter, actress and reality TV star.[Johnathan Dwayne
Johnatan Dwayne (born July 31, 1963) is a musician, composer, and artist who introduced the musical concept of art rock into Puerto Rico.
Early years
Dwayne was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico the capital city of the island. In the 1980s he belo ...](_blank)
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José Feliciano
JosĂ© Montserrate Feliciano GarcĂa (born September 10, 1945) () is a Puerto Rican musician, singer and composer. He recorded many international hits, including his rendition of the Doors' "Light My Fire" and his self-penned Christmas song " ...
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José Miguel Class
JosĂ© Miguel Class Ponce (September 26, 1935 â April 13, 2017) was a Puerto Rican singer who garnered international fame during the 1960s and 1970s.
Biography
Nicknamed "El Gallito de ManatĂ" ("Manati's Bantam"), Class achieved fame in Puer ...
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José Nogueras
JosĂ© Nogueras (born 1951, MayagĂŒez, Puerto Rico) is a composer, music producer, singer, guitarist, and performer of modern-day Puerto Rican music.
Early Years
At the age of eight, he came to reside in the city of RĂo Piedras, during his s ...
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Jose Vazquez-Cofresi
Jose Vazquez-Cofresi is an American conga drummer, bandleader, composer and producer of Puerto Rican & Italian ancestry. He is also called ''Manos de Hierro'', literally translated âIron Handsâ, a name given to him by a salsa bass player. T ...
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José Vega Santana
José Vega Santana, known by his stage name "Remi" (born February 28, 1958) is a singer and clown from Puerto Rico. His career as a clown, spanning over 35 years, began with the group "Los Dulces Payasos" ("The Sweet Clowns") after developing t ...
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Juan Morel Campos
Juan Morel Campos (16 May 1857 – 12 May 1896), sometimes erroneously spelled ''Juan Morell Campos'', was a Puerto Rican composer, considered by many to be responsible for taking the genre of danza to its highest level. He composed over ...
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Juan VĂ©lez
Juan Antonio VĂ©lez (born August 2, 1983 in Ponce, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican singer and songwriter, better known for being the winner of the fourth season of ''Objetivo Fama'', a Puerto Rican television singing talent contest in the form ...
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Julito RodrĂguez
Julito RodrĂguez Reyes (October 5, 1925 - July 27, 2013) was a Puerto Rican bolero singer, guitarist & composer.
Born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, Rodriguez was acknowledged to be a child prodigy in music, becoming interested in this topic sinc ...
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Kany GarcĂa
Encarnita "Kany" GarcĂa de JesĂșs (born September 25, 1982) is a Puerto Rican singer and songwriter. Born in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, GarcĂa first appeared on television in 2004 as a contestant on ''Objetivo Fama''. She is widely considered the m ...
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Kaydean
Kaydean is a British-American record and TV producer, composer, DJ, record label executive and artist manager.
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Lou Briel
Lou Briel (born October 19, 1954, Santurce, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican singer, composer, comedian, record producer, pianist, and host, among other things.
Musical career Early years with Anexo 3
Lou Briel started his career at a very young ...
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Lourdes PĂ©rez
Lourdes PĂ©rez (born Bernardita de Lourdes PĂ©rez Cruz on February 12, 1961) is a prolific Puerto Rican contemporary recording artist, songwriter, composer, arranger, poet, contralto vocalist, oral historian and guitarist. She is also one of f ...
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Luis Fonsi
Luis Alfonso RodrĂguez LĂłpez-Cepero (born April 15, 1978), known by his stage name Luis Fonsi (), is a Puerto Rican singer. He is known for multiple songs, one of them being "Despacito" featuring rapper Daddy Yankee.
Fonsi received his first ...
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Miguel Poventud
Miguel Poventud a.k.a. "El Niño Prodigio de Guayama" and "Miguelito" (August 4, 1942 – March 3, 1983), was a Puerto Rican musician, singer, actor and composer of Boleros. Among the singers who have interpreted his musical compositions are ...
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Myrta Silva
Myrta Silva (September 11, 1927 – December 2, 1987) was a Puerto Rican singer, songwriter and television producer who was known affectionately as "La Gorda de Oro". She rose to fame in 1949 as the lead vocalist for the Cuban ensemble Sonora ...
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Nano Cabrera
Nano Cabrera is a singer, guitarist, and composer born in Condado, Puerto Rico, who was a member of Haciendo Punto en Otro Son,
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Nino Segarra
Nino Segarra (born June 21, 1954) is a singer, composer, musician and musical arranger.
Early years
Segarra was born in Maricao, Puerto Rico into a family of musicians. He was always surrounded by many musical instruments and as a child, learn ...
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Noel Estrada
Noel Epinanio Estrada SuĂĄrez (June 4, 1918 – December 1, 1979) was a Puerto Rican composer. He was the author of "En mi Viejo San Juan", a song "widely known around the world".
Early years
Estrada was born in the town of Isabela, Puerto ...
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Obie BermĂșdez
Obie BermĂșdez (born January 10, 1981) is a Puerto Rican Latin pop, salsa singer and composer.
Early years
BermĂșdez was born in Aibonito, Puerto Rico into a family who loved music. His father and grandfather were both musicians. He received ...
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Olga Tañón
Olga Teresa Tañón OrtizIn this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is ''Tañón'' and the second or maternal family name is ''Ortiz''. (born April 13, 1967) is a Puerto Rican singer-songwriter. Over the course of her career, she has ...
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Pedro CapĂł
Pedro CapĂł (born 14 November 1980) is a Puerto Rican singer who is a grandson of Puerto Rican singer Bobby CapĂł and former Miss Puerto Rico Irma Nydia VĂĄzquez. He studied at Colegio Calasanz in RĂo Piedras, Puerto Rico.
Biography
Pedro pic ...
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Pedro Flores
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Puchi Balseiro
Puchi Balseiro (born Aurea Mercedes Balseiro; November 1, 1926 in Santurce, Puerto Rico – January 11, 2007) was a composer in the filin ("feeling") music genre.
Early years
Puchi Balseiro was born in a district of San Juan called Santur ...
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Rafael HernĂĄndez
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Rafi Escudero
Rafi Escudero (born December 30, 1945) is a Puerto Rican musician, singer, composer, poet and political activist.
Early years
Escudero was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico the capital city of the island. His parents were well aware tha ...
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René Pérez
RenĂ© PĂ©rez Joglar (born February 23, 1978), known professionally as Residente (often stylized as ResÄ«dÉntÉ), is a Puerto Rican rapper, singer, and songwriter. He is best known as one of the founders of the alternative rap band Calle 13. ...
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Roy Brown
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Silverio PĂ©rez
Silverio PĂ©rez Figueroa (born July 18, 1948 in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican musician, writer, comedian, entrepreneur and broadcasting media host.
Early life
PĂ©rez is the oldest of the eleven children of Silverio PĂ©rez Rosado and ...
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Sunshine Logroño
Emmanuel Logroño (born November 1, 1951), better known as Sunshine Logroño, is an American actor. Logroño has worked in Puerto Rican media for close to three decades.
Early years
Born in New York to a Puerto Rican mother, Logroño moved to S ...
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Sylvia Rexach
Sylvia Regina Rexach GonzĂĄlez (January 22, 1922 – October 20, 1961), was a Puerto Rican comedy scriptwriter, poet, singer and composer of music of Puerto Rico, boleros.
Early years
Rexach was born and raised in Santurce, Puerto Rico. Her ...
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Tite Curet Alonso
Catalino "Tite" Curet Alonso (February 26, 1926 â August 5, 2003) was a Puerto Rican composer of over 2,000 salsa songs.
Early years
Curet Alonso (birth name: Catalino Curet Alonso) was born in Guayama, a town located in the southern region o ...
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Tito Auger
Alfonso "Tito" Auger Vega (born 3 March 1968, in Vega Alta, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican musician best known for being the lead singer of the Rock en Español band Fiel a la Vega. Auger is also the band's main songwriter, together with Ricky ...
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Tommy Torres
Tomas Torres Carrasquillo (; born November 25, 1971), known professionally as Tommy Torres (), is a Puerto Rican singer, songwriter, and record producer.(4 April 2008)Latin songwriter/producer releases solo disc ''Reuters'' Named "#1 Hot Latin Tr ...
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Tony Croatto
Tony may refer to:
People and fictional characters
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Vicente Carattini
Vicente Carattini (November 11, 1939 â November 7, 2005), was a singer and composer of Puerto Rican Christmas-related songs.
Early years
Carattini (birth name:Ernesto Vicente Carattini) was born and raised in the town of Cidra, Puerto Rico wh ...
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Wilkins
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Yaire
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Zayra Alvarez
Zayra Enid Alvarez Dones Nugent also known as just Zayra, is a Puerto Rican singer and musician, currently based in Texas. Zayra has recorded in the genres of rock en español, Latin pop and EDM.
Music career
Raised in Arroyo, Puerto Rico she ...
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Zeny & Zory
Zeny y Zory (Zenaida Beveraggi & Zoraida Beveraggi), ''Las gemelas Beveraggi'', (The Beveraggi twins) (born May 12, 1957), are identical twins and have performed as a pop-music duet since the age of 15.
Early years
The twins were born in Santur ...
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Zoraida Santiago
Dr. Zoraida Santiago (born May 25, 1952) is a composer and singer of Puerto Rican folkloric themes.
Early years
Santiago (birth name:Zoraida Santiago Buitrago ) was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico to Domingo Santiago and Zayda Buitrago. She was ...
References
See also
{{Portal, Puerto Rico, Music
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Music of Puerto Rico
The music of Puerto Rico has evolved as a heterogeneous and dynamic product of diverse cultural resources. The most conspicuous musical sources of Puerto Rico have included European, Indigenous, and African influences, although many aspects of P ...