Tito Puente’s legacy in music was honored with a Google Doodle during Hispanic Heritage Month. Puerto Rican artist Carlos Aponte celebrated the late “King of Latin Music” with an animated video Doodle that has graced Google’s homepage.
Puente was born on April 20, 1923 at Harlem Hospital Center in New York City’s Spanish Harlem. He was a teenager when he started his career as a drummer and became one of the most prominent names in Latin music.
Puente was a percussionist, composer, songwriter, recording artist, and bandleader with a career that spanned five decades. He was posthumously recognized at the first-ever Latin Grammy Awards, and the Harlem street where he grew up — E.
110th Street — was renamed Tito Puente Way to honor his life and legacy. Aponte, the artist behind Google’s Doodle, said he was introduced to Puente via his aunt.
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