Joe Quijano

b. 27 September 1935, Puerta De Tierra, San Juan, Puerto Rico. The versatile Latin band leader, vocalist, percussionist and composer Quijano was seven years of age when his family settled in the Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. In 1950, while at school he sang and played maracas with a teenage group organized by Orlando Marín (b. 1934, the Bronx, New York City, New York, USA, of Puerto Rican parentage; timbales) and pianist Eddie Palmieri. Three trumpets were later added and they became the Orlando Marín Conjunto. Marín assumed leadership after Palmieri's departure to John...