The Official Fania Records Website, home to historic and influential artists such as Celia Cruz, Johnny Pacheco, Héctor Lavoe, Willie Colón, & more.

1 天前 · Perfectly illustrating this, the best Fania songs range from pulsating salsa grooves to searing disco -funk and syncopated slices of funky boogaloo. Based in Spanish Harlem, Fania quickly set...

2025年1月13日 · The late 60s witnessed important Fania recordings by Joe Bataan – a Latin soul-music pioneer who helped to establish a funky new style known as boogaloo – percussionist Ray Barretto, the ...

Perfectly illustrating this, the best Fania songs range from pulsating salsa grooves to searing disco -funk and syncopated slices of funky boogaloo. Based in Spanish Harlem, Fania quickly set the gold standard in Latin music and became a vital conduit in North America for the dissemination of a new musical phenomenon called salsa.

View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1968 Vinyl release of "Use It Before You Lose It / Funky Big Feet" on Discogs.

2006年6月4日 · Fania's sound seeped into soul and classic rock, into Stevie Wonder and Curtis Mayfield, into Santana and even Led Zeppelin, whose album radio staple "Fool in the Rain" is a salsa pastiche.

The years between the late 60s and the mid 70s were a very special time for Spanish Harlem (El Barrio). A new generation of American musicians, most of them ...

2024年6月11日 · Thanks to discerning crate-diggers, the best Fania samples became essential building blocks for hip-hop. From its earliest days in the late 70s, hip-hop has relied on recycling old beats to make...

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One of the gems on this recording is the title tune, Acid. It’s simple, funky bass tumbao (a repetitive, rhythmic pattern) is played by the late great, legendary Cuban-American bassist, Bobby Rodriguez, who Barretto affectionately dubbed, “Big Daddy.”