Salsa Legend Johnny Pacheco Dead At 85|HuffPost
Pacheco was the songs supervisor, author, manufacturer and also arranger, managing the tag’s category of songs that became referred to as salsa– a mix of Cuban mambo, guaracha as well as chachachá, Puerto Rican rhythms and also Dominican meringue. He got the Latin Recording Academy Music Excellence Award in 2005 as well as was chosen for numerous Grammys as well as Latin Grammys.