The legacy of Ralph Mercado

The legacy of Ralph Mercado

Posted on 21. Mar, 2009 by Hector Aviles in Latino Music

A great influencer of latin music, particularly of the Salsa genre, has passed away, but his legacy remains. Mercado was a promoter, producer, and music enthusiast, that left his mark in New York City scene since the 70’s.

For me, Ralph Mercado’s biggest contribution was to pick up the slack of producing Salsa recordings when Fania went under. On doing that, he brought us great salsa artists like Marc Anthony, India, and others. He kept the salsa legends recording some fine albums, rode the crest of the Salsa Romantica wave, and put together an All-Stars to make various recordings, including the “Tribute to the Beatles” album, which is one of my favorites.

Ralph Mercado was a great entrepenuer that had a passion for latin music and found ways to take that music to the latin community, first in NYC, and then to the world.

He will be missed, but his legacy will live on!

Hector

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22. Mar, 2009

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Michael

16. Jul, 2009

Hola de parte de parejaspareja.es, encontre tu blog navegando por la red buscando vallenato com en google. Me parece super interesante la información que tienes en tu blog y sin lugar a dudas regresare a leerlo. Tengo una pregunta, si podria traducir tu blog “” y añadirlos a un de mis blogs en italiano? Y por supuesto con el link direccionando a tu blog. Estare esperando tu respuesta. parejaspareja.es

Hector Aviles

20. Jul, 2009

Hola Michael,
Me alegra sobremanera que te guste LatinoWebCafe.com. Puedes traducir el blog al italiano pero me gustaria saber el url del sitio donde se publicara en italiano. Asi podre dirigir a nuestros lectores que sepan italiano a ese sitio.

Tambien, dejanos saber si te interesa algun tema en particular. Tengo pendiente hacer una parte 2 al articulo de vallenato que publique.

Muchos saludos,

Hector

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