Fania Records 60th Anniversary Salsa Party

After their great and packed "Tito Puente" tribute show at Howard Assembly Rooms Leeds last May, one of the UK's top mambo/classic salsa ensembles Orchestra Mambo International are back in the city this autumn on Sunday 24th November. This time they return to Brudenell Social Club for a big celebration of the 60th anniversary of the greatest Latin music label of all time.....Fania Records. The label's standing in Latin music is equivalent to what Blue Note is to jazz, Tamla Motown is to soul and Trojan is to reggae.....simply the greatest of all time.

Fania Records was founded in 1964 by Dominican musician Johnny Pacheco and his Italian-American lawyer (and Cuban music fan) Jerry Masucci. It would become the greatest Latin music label of ever and the driving force behind the spread of salsa music from New York City to the rest of the world.

From selling records out of the boot of their car to the many Latin music stores around the Big Apple in the 1960s, Pacheco and Masucci would take the salsa gospel across the globe with the release of the 1971 award winning documentary "Our Latin Thing" and world tours by the label's in-house band the Fania All-Stars. The label would also be at the heart of Latin crossover music in the 1960s and 1970s via the NYC fusion of Latin and soul music, which gave the world Latin soul, bugalu, Latin funk and Latin disco.

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