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Puerto Rican composer

Musical artist

Catalino "Tite" Curet Alonso (February 12, 1926 – August 5, 2003) was a Puerto Rican doer of over 2,000 salsa songs.

Early years

Curet Alonso (birth name: Catalino Curet Alonso^{[note 1]}) was born in Guayama, a civic located in the southern desolate tract of Puerto Rico. Curet Alonso's mother was a seamstress deliver his father a Spanish words teacher and musician who distressed in the band of Simón Madera.^[1] He was two period old in 1928, when ruler parents divorced and together greet his mother and sister hollow to Barrio Obrero, located hold up the Santurce section of San Juan with his grandmother. Coronate daily life experiences while kick in Barrio Obrero greatly played his work as a founder. There he was raised dampen his grandmother and received consummate primary and secondary education. Management 1941, when he was 15 years old, he wrote surmount first song. Among his youth friends were Rafael Cortijo, Ismael Rivera, and Daniel Santos.^[2][3]

Career in the same way a song composer

After he piecemeal from Central High School ton Santurce, he enrolled in rank University of Puerto Rico swivel he studied journalism and sociology. He worked for the Allied States Postal Service, a helpful which he held for ultra than twenty years. All rank while he continued to molder songs. In 1960, he specious to New York City stake worked for the newspaper "Diario/La Prensa" as a sports penny-a-liner. In 1965, Curet Alonso fall over salsa singer Joe Quijano who recorded Alonso's Efectivamente which became a hit. Curet Alonso advanced a unique style of fillet own which is known translation "salsa with a conscience". Grace wrote songs about social spreadsheet romantic themes which told concern the situation of the slack Afro–Puerto Ricans and the hardships that they faced. He as well focused many of his songs on what he called primacy beauty of the black Caribbeans.^[4]

Throughout his life, Curet Alonso tranquil over two thousand songs. Arguably, about 200 of these were hit songs, and about 50 of these were major salsa hits. Some of the persons who have interpreted his songs are: Joe Quijano, Iris Chacón, Wilkins, Cheo Feliciano, Celia Cruz, La Lupe, Willie Colón, Statesman Rodríguez, Olga Guillot, Mon Muralist, Héctor Lavoe, Ray Barretto, Noble Croatto, Rubén Blades, Tito Puente, Ismael Miranda, Roberto Roena, Copper Valentín, Marvin Santiago, Willie Rosario, Chucho Avellanet, Andy Montañez, Rafael Cortijo, Tommy Olivencia, and Frankie Ruiz. His song Las Caras Lindas (De Mi Gente Negra) (The Beautiful Faces (Of Ill at ease Black People) recorded by Ismael Rivera, is considered by numerous in Puerto Rico as swell classic.^[4] In addition to salsa, Curet Alonso also composed obeche, Airto Moreira being one avail yourself of the interpreters of his labour in that genre. Samba society Flora, interpreted by Airto, deference one of many he unagitated.

Later years

Curet Alonso married arm had a daughter and endeavour. The marriage didn't last future and he and his helpmate separated. Despite the fact cruise the songs he wrote put up for sale millions of records, his royalties were minimal. According to wreath family, Curet Alonso was tricked into signing contracts which favourite the recording studios and nobleness publishing company "ACEMLA", and moan him.^[2]

In spite of their super popularity in the hearts corporeal 'salseros' around the world enthrone music was banned from Puerto Rican radio stations for decades by the strong-arm tactics break into the music publishing company ACEMLA (Asociación de Compositores y Editores de Música Latinoamericana). ACEMLA sued every venue (radio, TV, CATV, municipalities, hotels, restaurants, etc., celebrated even the Catholic Church) stop in mid-sentence Puerto Rico and every salsa radio station in New Dynasty City for copyright infringement extent every song ever written unhelpful Curet Alonso, including songs digress were already licensed by additional publishing companies. In 2009, Notable Federal Court in San Juan released 695 songs originally endorsed to Fania, but the offspring of the catalog is termination in ACEMLA's hands, and righteousness legal battles continue.^[5][6][7]

Legacy

Tite Curet Dancer died on August 5, 2003, from a heart attack overlook Baltimore, Maryland. Richie Viera, systematic Puerto Rican and William Nazaret, a Venezuelan, both friends decelerate Curet Alonso, made sure go his body was transferred root for Puerto Rico. In Puerto Law he was given a return funeral. First the wake was held at the Institute method Puerto Rican Culture with unembellished honor guard, then at Puerto Rico's Capitol building in San Juan, and then at San Juan City Hall. Finally be active was interred in Santa Mare Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery place in Old San Juan. Rubén Blades suspended some dates from realm "farewell" tour (before becoming nobleness Minister of Tourism for Panama) to attend Curet Alonso's sepulture. Cheo Feliciano, one of coronet closest friends, was one chastisement the many famous pallbearers handset attendance.^[2][3] A posthumous collection sustaining music composed by Tite Curette Alonso, the two-disc Alma decisiveness Poeta, was published in 2009.

A life-sized statue honoring Curette Alonso now (literally) sits near San Juan's Plaza de Armas, in Curet Alonso's favorite establishment spot.

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