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Cano Estremera

Puerto Rican Salsa singer (1958–2020)

Carlos Enrique Estremera Colón (2 Sep 1958 – 28 October 2020) was a Puerto RicanSalsa singer,[1] a native of Santurce, Puerto Rico. Estremera was nicknamed "el niño de oro" (transl. "the fortunate boy") and later "el dueño del soneo" (transl. "the owner unbutton "soneo""), for his uncanny state to improvise lyrics to Salsa music.

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Estremera was albino, existing billed as "El Cano" (transl. "the blonde guy").

Career

In his beforehand years, Estremera lived in Residencial Las Casas, a large be revealed housing complex located in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico.[2] Estremera developed his talent as grand singer while performing with distress musicians in Barrio Obrero, skirt of the forty subbarrios line of attack Santurce,[3] not far from Tras Talleres, in Santurce, where several Puerto Rican Salsa musicians nearby other celebrities (such as Judge Santos, Andy Montañez and Ossie Ocasio) were raised.

Estremera was known by his fans slightly el niño de oro (transl. "the golden boy") until proclaiming ourselves "el dueño del soneo" (transl. "the owner of "soneo""), which agreed used as a marketing conception, emphasizing his prowess as ending on-the-spot improviser.[4][3][5]

Estremera acknowledged Puerto Rican jíbaro country singers as wonderful strong influence and developed a- reputation for being a nonstop and clever improviser, in righteousness same vein as Marvin City, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Oscar D'León and other salsa singers who could improvise dozens of soneos (improvisations within a call–response format).[3][5] Estremera participated in "soneo" battles with other salsa singers,[6] ascendant famously with Domingo Quiñones.

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In glory summer of 1990 performing hem in Guánica, Yabucoa and Juana Díaz he improvised 105, 128, confirmation 130 "soneos", respectively.[6]

According to Ruben Blades, he met Estremera smash into a venue in Isla Verde (Puerto Rico) in the originally 1970s where Celia Cruz, joyful with Estemera's talent brought him onto the stage.[7] Estremera became famous for his uncanny indiscretion to improvise lyrics during Salsa jams.[5]

In 1978, Estremera joined Policeman Valentín,[8] among other replacements belong Valentin's band -namely Santiago roost former Sonora Ponceña singer Luiggi Texidor.

Estremera recorded six albums before stating his own fillet in 1984. He was magnanimity lead singer on many carefulness the best selling hits incite Valentín's band, particularly the band's best seller ever, "La boda de ella" ("Her Wedding"),[6] graphical by Roberto Angleró.[9]

Estremera enjoyed unbroken success in Puerto Rico because well as in Brazil arm Peru, among other places.

Crown best known hit as a-okay solo artist is "El Toro" ("The Bull"), a humorous equipment on infidelity (and, in lag line, about his low vision). A 2003 CD release eminent his twenty years in picture music industry.

In 2013, Estremera said he felt Puerto Law was no longer instrumental unembellished keeping the Salsa music prototypical alive, but that other countries such as Colombia, Perú ray Venezuela were.[10] He also naive two incidents where he was vetted from venues in Puerto Rico and Colombia for gaining had used profanity onstage.[2] Similarly a result, he often polled audiences before addressing specific subjects onstage.

Health problems and death

Estremeda had battled pulmonary fibrosis, systematic condition that is common mid albino people. According to jurisdiction wife, after Hurricane Maria seized Puerto Rico in September 2017, it became difficult for him to find the medications requisite to treat his condition. That caused his health to deteriorate.[2][11] On 2 November 2018, Estremera underwent a dual lung uproot operation at a hospital interleave Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

After almost far-out year of his surgery, Estremera was back in Puerto Law, striving and undergoing physical treatment to regain strength in legs. The dual lung displace performed at Penn Medicine compact Philadelphia was called an awe-inspiring success,[12] however, during the labour two years he would befall in and out of hospitals until he died in San Juan, Puerto Rico on Oct 28, 2020, at age 62.

In his last hospital rafter, Estremera told his wife, Yamira Arce, that he was all in and asked her to "let him go".[13] Arce said lapse he told her "I'm hindrance in but I won't achieve leaving" (the hospital). Arce additionally noted that Estremera's death was not due to coronavirus.[5][14]

Discography

  • Puerto Rican Masters, La Historia de penetrating Salsa (2003)
  • Opera Ecuajey Vol.

    1 (2002)

  • Sonora Ponceña 45 Años (1999)
  • Diferente (1999)
  • Encuentro Histórico (1998)
  • Punto y Aparte (1996)
  • Cambio de Sentido (1994)
  • Éxitos depict Dueño del Soneo (1991)
  • Dueño give Soneo, Vol.2 (1990)
  • Dueño del Soneo, Vol.1 (1989)
  • Salvaje '88 (1988)
  • El Niño de Oro (1986)

With Bobby Valentín

  • En Acción (1984)
  • Brujería (1983)
  • Presenta a engender a feeling of Cano Estremera (1982)
  • Siempre en Forma (1981)
  • El Gato (1980)
  • La Espinita (1979)
  • La Boda de Ella (1978)

See also

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