Johnny Pacheco was a musician who co-founded Fania Records, where he helped create salsa music and bring it into the mainstream.Pacheco, a native of the Dominican Republic who came to New York City with his family as a boy, learned to play many instruments including accordion, violin, and flute.
He began playing professionally in the early 1950s and formed his own band in 1960, Pacheco y su Charanga. They helped popularize the pachanga, a dance trend of the early 1960s that mixed merengue and cha-cha-cha.
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