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Tito Puente
Ernesto Antonio "Tito" Puente (April 20, 1923 – June 1, 2000) was an American Mambo musician and Latin jazz composer. The son of native Puerto Ricans, Ernest and Ercilia Puente, living in New York City's Spanish Harlem community, Puente is often credited as "The Musical Pope", "El Rey de los Timbales" (The King of the Timbales) and "The King of Latin Music". He is best known for dance-oriented mambo and Latin jazz compositions that endured over a 50-year career. He and his music appear in many films such as ''The Mambo Kings'' and Fernando Trueba's ''Calle 54''. He guest-starred on several television shows including ''Sesame Street'', ''The Cosby Show'' and, most notably, ''The Simpsons'' two-part episode "Who Shot Mr. Burns?".
==Early life==
Tito Puente was born on April 20, 1923, at Harlem Hospital Center in New York City. His family moved frequently, but he spent the majority of his childhood in the Spanish Harlem area of the city.〔 Puente's father was the foreman at a razorblade factory.
As a child, he was described as hyperactive, and after neighbors complained of hearing seven-year-old Puente beating on pots and window frames, his mother sent him to 25-cent piano lessons.〔 By the age of 10, he switched to percussion, drawing influence from jazz drummer Gene Krupa.〔 He later created a song-and-dance duo with his sister Anna in the 1930s and intended to become a dancer, but an ankle tendon injury prevented him pursuing dance as a career.〔〔 When the drummer in Machito's band was drafted to the army, Puente subsequently took his place.〔
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