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Johnny Pacheco founder of the Fania All Stars says goodbye

This Monday Cuqui Pacheco announced the news

Johnny Pacheco, one of the great Latin musicians, died this Monday, February 15 at the Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck, New Jersey because of pneumonia, which he had already suffered for several days and for which he was hospitalized. Called one of the creators of salsa, Johnny left this world at 85 years of age, but his legacy will live forever not only in the hearts of Latinos, but also in the history of music.

A short statement was released by what is now his widow María Elena “Cuqui” Pacheco and the rest of his relatives:

“With great pain in my soul and an emptiness in my heart I inform you that the teacher Johnny Pacheco with much peace passed away this afternoon. Thank you so much for all the prayers from him and all the love you always gave him. At this time we ask for privacy and prayers. “

There were and still are many reactions around the departure of the founder of Fania. Salseros around the world have mourned the news and many musicians who in one way or another knew Johnny have expressed their sadness:

Rubén Blades published on his Facebook account: “I just received information indicating that Dominican Johnny Pacheco, flutist, arranger, composer and leader of the group “Las Estrellas de Fania”, has just moved “al otro barrio”. At 85 years of age, Pacheco leaves us an important musical legacy, represented by all the collaborations that he made during his distinguished career, with figures like Celia Cruz … To his family and loved ones we send our condolences . Have a good trip Johnny and “Simá!”

On his part, Marc Anthony took to Instagram to dedicate these words to him: “Teacher of Teachers and my good friend! Rest in peace! You were there for me from day 1. Your sense of humor was contagious and I am forever grateful for your support, for the opportunity to be in your presence and for your amazing legacy. “

Maelo Ruiz also left his words: “Today a giant left us ? We regret his physical disappearance! Thank you maestro Johnny Pacheco for everything you did for salsa, you left an insurmountable legacy for future generations! God receive you in heaven ? #QEPD #Rip #JohnnyPacheco #FaniaAllStars ”

Puerto Rican Victor Manuelle also used Instagram to remember Johnny: “Thank you teacher. I had the honor of honoring you in life. Your legacy will not die. Your music will live forever in our hearts. We are going to miss you, Master Pacheco. R.I.P.”

And another was El Caballero de la Salsa Gilberto Santa Rosa: “Today Salsa and music in general are in mourning. One of the pioneers, creative genius and in my personal case an exquisite person said goodbye … Rest in peace master Johnny Pacheco.”

And these are just an example of the many reactions that Latin musicians left when they heard the news. Johnny Pacheco definitely left his mark and a legacy that was difficult to emulate, but which gave the foundation to one of the most listened to genres in the world, of which Latin America is extremely proud.

The incredible career of Johnny Pacheco

Juan Azarías Pacheco Knipping was born on March 25, 1935 in the city of Santiago de los Caballeros in the Dominican Republic. His father was Rafael Azarías Pacheco and thanks to him his love for music arises since he was a clarinetist and a famous conductor. On his part, his mother was Octavia Knipping Rochet, who brought Pacheco a mixture of cultures, since she was the granddaughter of a French colonizer and great-granddaughter of a German merchant who married a Dominican woman of Spanish family.

Johnny moved to New York with his family at the age of 11, where he continued his studies, especially music, managing to enter the prestigious Juilliard School to study percussion. In 1960 he founded his first band: Pacheco y su charanga, after working in several Latin bands. With this band Pacheco achieves success by signing with Alegre records, and presenting a dance rhythm which he called the pachanga, in this way he becomes a star touring the United States, Europe, Asia and of course Latin America.

La Fania first started out as a record label, with a partner who was not thought to be interested in Latin music Jerry Masucci, a former policeman who became a lawyer, but fell in love with this music on a trip he made to Cuba. This foundation occurred in 1964, between Harlem and the Bronx where the productions were sold from the trunks of their cars. But the Fania legacy was only taking its first steps by giving an urban touch to Latin music using the term salsa to sell its releases.

With Pacheco, Fania achieved a new rhythm based on the existing ones of Caribbean music, especially the Cuban son, but by putting a faster tempo. One of the things that stood out in Fania’s music was the lyrics, which were used to talk about somewhat sensitive issues, from racism to the political problems of the time, without neglecting pride in their Latino origins.

During the ‘60s and ‘70s, Fania had under its wing many singers who today are considered the best in Latin music and the promoters of the salsa genre: Héctor Lavoe, Willie Colón, Celia Cruz, Rubén Blades to name a few, not counting the musicians who have been part of the band that accompanied the stars in their presentations. Practically the Fania All Stars became the school of many musicians.

Fania Records was called the Motown of salsa, becoming a music powerhouse, which led his band the Fania All Stars to tour around the world filling arenas and selling many records. Featuring never-before-seen collaborations such as Willie Colón, one of the best salsa composers, with Rubén Blades, a lyricist focused on the social part. Hector Lavoe was also a cult singer who made music history but whose career was very short and was marked by addiction problems which led to an early death at 46 years old.

During the ‘80s, Fania saw its end when facing many problems due to royalties and lawsuits, working with many artists was not easy and at that time there were many dark moments focused on addictions and monetary problems. In 2005 Fania returned to the spotlight as Emusica bought their catalog that was getting lost in a warehouse in Hudson, New York. Many hits were remastered and re-released in 2006.

Johnny Pacheco will always be remembered as the father of salsa, who with Fania managed to leave his mark on Latin music, rest in peace maestro.

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The Business Of The Artists

Currently, famous artists have begun to sell their musical legacy to avant-garde companies, obtaining the value for their catalog of songs comparable to a 25-year career in advance and immediate financial security that solves the termination of the singer-songwriter due to the forced stoppage of performances and concerts for a year due to the Covid-19 Pandemic. This New popular Business of the Artists consists of the monetization of iconic songs to private companies with which they reach agreements on the management of each theme for the subsequent increase in long-term income with a reliable projection in sustainable consumption.

Hipgnosis Song Funds Limited, KKR (Kohlberg Kravis Roberts), and Primary Wave are some of these unusual financial companies investing in music that have turned their sights to this sector and are completely changing the way it is managed around the world. Through the individual management of each classic theme, these companies promise to manage the proper use of the license in film, theater, television, commercials, new versions, etc.

There are already two Latin composers within this cartel of successful artists who have ceded their copyright to the company Hipgnosis Song Funds Limited: Colombian singer-songwriter Shakira and American songwriter of Latin American descent, Benny Blanco, this artist is the creator of very popular songs such as: “Señorita” (Shaw Mendes and Camila Cabello), “I can’t get enough” (J. Balvin, Selena Gómez and Tainy), “Good for you” (Selena Gómez) and “Love yourself” (Justin Bieber).

Although the details of these contracts have not been made public, it has been known that Shakira sold 100% of the publishing rights to her 145 songs to Hipgnosis and although all her legacy was delivered, this contract stipulates that the future compositions of the singer-songwriter are not included. Likewise, the new songs of the singer will continue to be managed by Sony / ATV, a record company associated with this Colombian star for more than a decade and with which she will remain for seven more years.

What is Hipgnosis Song Funds Limited?

It is a British investment company offering investors pure exposure to songs and associated musical intellectual property rights. Hipgnosis is listed on the main market of the London Stock Exchange (England) under the symbol SONG and has raised more than £ 625 million through its public offering since July 2018 to date.

Ted Cockle, Merck Mercuriadis, and Amy Johnson

The company along with its co-founder and former manager of figures such as Beyoncé, Elton John, Guns N ‘Roses, Iron Maiden among others, Merck Mercuriadisen, has a board of directors composed of Ted Cockle (President) and Amy Thomson (Chief Catalog Officer), which have poured all their knowledge of the modern and direct recording world to the company and have made Hipgnosis have thousands of hits from Latin popular singers such as Marc Anthony, Ricky Martin, Enrique Iglesias, and Jennifer López, among others.

What’s Behind This New Business?

Millionaire amounts! Nowadays, there is a greater consumer population of Streaming largely because of the Millennials generation, Generation Z, and the current Pandemic. This has made the great hits revalue over the news songs. According to estimates by The Wall Street Journal, a music catalog that could have been bought for £ 41,000 increased in value to around £ 40 million.

This new business has skyrocketed since the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic in early 2020 with the increase in digital content that remains stable with a continued projection of secure income on renowned artists who stand the test of time.

Regarding this New Popular Business of the Artists, Hipgnosis Song Funds Limited confirmed in its 2020 report that the investment for the acquisition of the rights to the Music Catalogs is sustainable in the market movement: “People always hear the music” and, thanks to the streaming, “they almost always pay for it.”

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February, the month where the Carnival begins worldwide.

Did you know that … Carnival is a party that is celebrated all over the world:

Carnival has many characteristics and with slight variations in the type of celebrations that depends a lot on the character of each region. Where people celebrated it with costumes, groups that sing songs, parades and street parties.

For many centuries, its origins vary according to historians, such as: pagan festivals, such as those held in honor of Bacchus, the Roman god of wine, Saturnalia and Roman Lupercals, or those held in honor of the Apis bull in Egypt more than 5000 years ago, the pre-Hispanic Andean festivals and African-American cultures.

Currently, the carnival is celebrated in different ways in each country either by culture, religion or holiday and / or recreational activity, where it is represented with a parade in which the participants wear costumes and wear masks. However, the custom was transforming the celebration to its current form.

There are different ways to celebrate carnival in the world, this time we will mention some of them:

The carnival that takes place in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro: especially in the Sambadrome known for being one of the largest open-air spaces in the city where one can hold large events, where Brazilians and tourists gather to dance and see the great festivals offered by the different dance academies and / or samba studios where the evaluation of each one depends on the rhythm, participation, costumes and originality of the parade, it already takes place outdoors, which makes the visitor have a more active participation at a lower cost and you can dance and enjoy the shows and / or shows that are in the marches carried out by the academies with their dancers wearing their best costumes and Samba steps as well as the floats and also the The public can enjoy and see the electric trios (they are musical groups that travel the city in equipped trucks playing music) in the street parties of Rio; and not only in “Rio” it is celebrated but it can be found in Recife and Olinda, in Salvador de Bahía, the city where Samba was born – Florianópolis, among others.

The Carnival parade in Brazil — Carnival dancer dancing Samba

Samba is the national music of Brazil, having Afro-Brazilian origin of 2 by 4 times but the beginning was specifically in Angola before arriving in Brazil; Currently he has a style that has received many mergers and is very varied; It is one of the rhythms that is used to celebrate carnival for the most part, the rest would be Latin rhythms (Salsa, Merengue, etc).

Carnival of Venice (Italy): it is unique in the world and its tradition dates back to the 11th century, although it was not declared a public holiday until two centuries later, it is totally different from the Spanish image, and much more from the Brazilian one. During the 10 days it lasts, people dress up and go out to walk and take photos, either in organized parades, or improvised (as if they were fresh out of a Canaletto painting).

Photo of a Carnival in Venice — Carnival with tradition dates back to the eleventh century

Carnival in Barranquilla (Colombia): takes place in a space in which differences are overcome and diversity is expressed without limits in each mask, costume, dance and dance. The happy notes of a cumbiamba or band music make you feel that social classes, regions and the whole world come together to enjoy the riches that the ancestors left as a cultural and historical legacy in Colombia.

One of the famous carnivals in Venezuela is “El Callao”: where the Venezuelan celebrates and shows his public the history and culture that transcends the carnival in Venezuela for more than a century; where at the beginning they were family reunions who did not have in their hands the necessary resources to temporarily move to their native towns and enjoy the colorful festivals, in these they pointed out their concerns acquired from generation to generation of the family and whose most outstanding manifestations were general art culinary, homemade drinks, varied music, dance, dance, theater, stories about their tales and legends, and perhaps the practice of magical and / or religious beliefs; Some of the best known characters are: La Madama, Medio Pinto, miners, fantasy, the sun and the star of the last moon, although they always vary in each carnival.

Photo - Carnaval Callao — Dancing in the Carnaval Callao

That is to say, the “El Callao” carnival is the result of the history of the city’s inhabitants and their diversity by exalting the Afro-Caribbean cultural legacy and the influences of other communities, causing a strong strength of the identity of the people of Callao, fostering unity among them and encourages the younger generations to discover their cultural heritage, passing from generation to generation among families by composing melodies, playing musical instruments, singing, dancing and making masks.

Cologne Carnival (Germany) also known as “the fifth season of the year”: it is one of the most important cultural events in Germany. They are especially popular for the parades on Carnival Monday (Rosenmontag).

There is a great variety of carnivals around the world with their culture and / or customs, in conclusion, it is an event or holiday that people release stress as it is dynamic, theatrical and sporty (due to the dance of different rhythms, most of them Latin especially in Latin America), in such a way that it helps the body to release tension resulting in fun and relaxation.

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Europe – FEB 2021

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ISM January 2021

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ISM brings you the January edition full of information that surely will interest you. Marlow Rosado talks about his two new studio recordings and marks expressed in music and ISM wants you to know a bit about the Orquesta Oeste 11.