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Visionary salsa music legend Johnny Pacheco dead at 85

Johnny Pacheco (Photo by Rick Diamond/WireImage for The Recording Academy via Getty Images) NEW YORK - Salsa idol Johnny Pacheco, who was a co-founder of Fania Records, Eddie Palmieri’s bandmate and backer of music stars such as Rubén Bladés, Willie Colón and Celia Cruz, died Monday. He was 85.He had been hospitalized in New York a few days earlier for pneumonia, his wife, Maria Elena "Cuqui" Pacheco, said on the artist’s Facebook account.Fania Records tweeted that the musician was "the man most responsible for the genre of salsa music.

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Johnny Pacheco, an idol in world of salsa, dies at age 85

NEW YORK – Salsa idol Johnny Pacheco, who was a co-founder of Fania Records, Eddie Palmieri’s bandmate and backer of music stars such as Rubén Bladés, Willie Colón and Celia Cruz, died Monday. He was 85.

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No Rest For Angélique Kidjo: How The African Icon Is Keeping Busy (& Helping Others) In Lockdown

It was going to be an important year for Angélique Kidjo. In March, a few months after earning her fourth Grammy Award (for her Celia Cruz tribute album, Celia), the singer had planned to celebrate her own 60th birthday — along with the 60th anniversary of independence of her native Benin — with a special performance at New York City’s Carnegie Hall featuring everyone from Nigerian Afropop star Yemi Alade to Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes.Of course, due to the coronavirus pandemic, those plans changed, and the March 14 concert was cancelled just days ahead of time.

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