Johnny Pacheco
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Dominican musician (1935–2021)
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Within Vinony's link graph, Johnny Pacheco is referenced by 316 other articles, and connects out to merengue, Latin jazz and Warner Bros..
It sits within the topics 1935 births, 2021 deaths and American musicians.
Its subject is documented across 17 Wikipedia language editions.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 7
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Dominican Republic
- Active from
- 1935-03-25
- Active to
- 2021-02-15
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 128,934
- Total plays
- 684,763
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Johnny Pacheco (March 25,1935 - February 15, 2021) was a Dominican-American musician, arranger, composer, bandleader, and record producer. He became one of the leading exponents of a new dance in the late 1950s called the pachanga, a blend of Cuban rhythms and merengue, which propelled him to worldwide notoriety, and had an important role in the evolution of Latin music. Pacheco inherited his passion for music from his father, Rafael Azarias Pacheco, who was the bandleader and clarinetist of th
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Johnny
- Family name
- Pacheco
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Santiago de los Caballeros
- Place of death
- Teaneck
- Occupation
- singer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- Spanish
- Genre
- son montuno
- Instrument
- voice
- Official website
- www.johnnypacheco.com
- Image
- Compositor Jhonny Pacheco.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1935-03-25
- Commons category
- Johnny Pacheco
- date of death
- 2021-02-15
- start of work period
- 1960-00-00
- end of work period
- 2021-00-00
- name in native language
- Johnny Pacheco
- birth name
- Juan Pablo Pacheco Knipping
- place of burial
- Woodlawn Cemetery
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