Típica 73 was an American
charanga and
salsa
Salsa most often refers to:
* Salsa (food), a variety of sauces used as condiments
* Salsa music, a popular style of Latin American music
* Salsa (dance), a Latin dance associated with Salsa music
Salsa or SALSA may also refer to:
Arts and ent ...
band in the 1970s and early 1980s, that was formed by musicians from
Ray Barretto
Raymundo "Ray" Barretto Pagán (April 29, 1929 – February 17, 2006) was an American percussionist and bandleader of Puerto Rican descent. Throughout his career as a percussionist, he played a wide variety of Latin music styles, as well as Lati ...
's band.
"Típica" refers to the typical configuration of a Cuban chararanga while "73" refers to the year that group was founded.
Tipica 73 was the first American salsa band to record in Cuba (''Típica 73 En Cuba Intercambio Cultural'') and included
Adalberto Santiago
Adalberto Santiago (born April 23, 1937) is an internationally known salsa singer.
Career
Born April 23, 1937, in Pozas barrio, Ciales, Puerto Rico, Adalberto's relaxed and flawless lead vocals are among the best in the salsa genre of Latin ...
,
Alfredo de la Fé,
José Alberto "El Canario" and Panamanian singer Luis Argumedes
Camilo Azuquita who performed in the album of 1977.
In the New York salsa scene in the early 1970s, the group began with
Johnny "Dandy" Rodriguez Jr. and four of Ray Barretto's original band including Adalberto Santiago (who all left Barretto simultaneously to start Tipica 73 in 1972), and, after combining the conjunto percussive style (
conga
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s,
timbales
Timbales () or pailas are shallow single-headed drums with metal casing. They are shallower than single-headed tom-toms and usually tuned much higher, especially for their size.Orovio, Helio 1981. ''Diccionario de la música cubana: biográfic ...
, and bongos) with a horn section, the band became one of the biggest stars of the salsa movement in the US.
However, the band's line-up ended up with an almost different cast by the start of the following decade, with several of the original members having left after differences in the late 1970s, regarding whether the band would continue to play tipica music, with Santiago and three others leaving to form Los Kimbos.
Rodriguez Jr was the only constant in the band, and he and remaining members split in 1982, but not without a tribute to the charanga style, the 1980 release ''Charangueando con la Tipica 73'', which included standout versions of
Tito Puente
Ernest Anthony Puente Jr. (April 20, 1923 – May 31, 2000), commonly known as Tito Puente, was an American musician, songwriter, bandleader, timbalero, and record producer. He composed dance-oriented mambo and Latin jazz music. He was also k ...
's "A Donde Vas" and
Cachao
Israel López Valdés (September 14, 1918 – March 22, 2008), better known as Cachao ( ), was a Cuban double bassist and composer. Cachao is widely known as the co-creator of the mambo (music), mambo and a master of the descarga (improvised ...
's "
Chanchullo", among others. According to Greg Prato of All Music Guide Magazine, in 1995, Tipica 73 reunited for a successful concert in Puerto Rico, which led to a series of shows four years later.
[Pablo Yglesias ''Cocinando!: Fifty Years of Latin Album Cover Art'' 2005 p115 "For Típica '73's La Candela, he enlisted his family and friends in the weaving of a tapestry with the album's typography (it was intended as a gatefold). "It took forever, I was freaking out. "]
Discography
*''Tipica 73'' (1973)
*''Tipica 73'' (1974)
*''La Candela'' (1975)
*''Rumba Caliente'' (1976)
*''The Two Sides of Tipica'' (1977)
*''Salsa Encendida'' (1978)
*''Típica 73 En Cuba Intercambio Cultural'' (1979)
*''Charangueando con la Tipica 73'' (1980)
*''Into the 1980s'' (1981)
References
External links
Típica ’73 (Fania Original Remastered)
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American folk musical groups
Salsa music groups
Musical groups established in 1973