From the first few bars of this recording, you will know that high quality “Calidad” salsa is coming. Indeed, Adalberto Santiago remembers that quality was in his mind when he was preparing this 1982 recording. This was my final outing for the Fania records and I wanted to leave by producing an album that had ‘calidad’ [quality], from the choice …

It was one of the biggest coups in the history of salsa. Vocalist Adalberto Santiago and other musicians from the Ray Barretto orchestra hopped a flight from Colombia to New York to tell the unforgettable Conguero Indestructible that they were leaving his band to form their own Típica 73. After the experimental jazz album The Other Road, Barretto got over …

There is so much to say about Adalberto Santiago. Undoubtedly one of the greatest talents in the history of the musical genre we know as salsa, the boricua singer has shone on every stage and in every musical genre to which he has lent his enormous voice. Born in the Pozas neighborhood of Ciales, Puerto Rico, the singer began performing …

Released in 1978,”A Todos Mis Amigos” was one of the many compilations that the Fania empire put out during the apex of the salsa era. It was an obvious attempt to recycle the existing catalogue of gems from the legendary Tico label. At the time, Celia Cruz had been crowned as the queen of the New York salsa explosion through …