Cuero de Macorina

My Brother Santos went to United Artists and he recorded Charanga at that time. In that charanga that he records, he does, Takes that and he puts Latin lyrics and a Flamenco style on that. And Pacheco was the one that produced it. And Pacheco, he learned charanga then he Portugal Alegría. And that's the first waltz theme that Al Santiago has in that company. They traveled with El Güido de Macorita. We All wanted to, you know, imitate Tito Puente. He was, you know, it was amazing what he Was doing in timbales, you know. I believe that I knew all the tunes that Tito did according to me, you know. And by 13, I started playing timbales with my Uncle who had a bongo set and Another uncle playing conga and my uncle who sang, He was the singer. And he had a trumpet player, bongos, The conga, and I'm playing timbales. And that, we did like weddings and this kind Of thing. And the planet San Juan goes to Con Labillas. We did work up there during the Summer. And I studied with him for a couple Years playing as timbales until about 15 years old. And eventually my uncle told me, you know, I'm Going to tell you something. If you're going to be a drummer, you and You got to talk about playing the whole drum Set, you know, and you got to learn how To, you know, we're talking about that. And I'm looking at, at that time, the drummers Is not like the drummers now in the sense That you could just have drums ready for a Drummer, you know. When it's inverted, You had to carry your bass drum. You had to carry it. It'd difficult. And started looking at all of that. And I said, no, no, no, I want with The piano. They Traveled With El Güido de Macorita.