• Calderón (April 22, 1931 – February 15, 2009), known professionally as Joe Cuba, was an American conga drummer of Puerto Rican descent widely regarded...
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  • Latin boogaloo song, co-written by Jimmy Sabater and Joe Cuba. It was popularized by the Joe Cuba Sextet, featuring Cheo Feliciano on vocals. In many instances...
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    found out that Joe Cuba was in need of a singer for his sextet. Aware that Feliciano was also a talented singer, he recommended Cuba that he try out...
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  • timbales player. He gained international fame thanks to his work with the Joe Cuba Sextet in the 1960s and '70s, and later became the lead singer of various...
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    Cuba Mark Gooding Jr. (born January 2, 1968) is an American actor. After his breakthrough role as Tre Styles in Boyz n the Hood (1991) he won the Academy...
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  • Rican community. These included, but weren't limited to, Joe Bataan, Johnny Zamot, Joe Cuba, Bobby Valentín, the Latin Souls, the Lat-Teens, Johnny Colón...
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  • in Cuba (2016)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved March 10, 2021. Leydon, Joe (April 27, 2016). "Film Review: 'Papa: Hemingway in Cuba'". Variety...
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    One theory of the sandwich's origin is that in 1917, Havana, Cuba bar owner José "Sloppy Joe" Abeal y Otero created "a simple sandwich filled with ground...
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    The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis (Spanish: Crisis de Octubre) in Cuba, or the Caribbean Crisis (Russian: Карибский кризис,...
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    against Cuba prevents US businesses, and businesses organized under US law or majority-owned by US citizens, from conducting trade with Cuban interests...
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  • boogaloo song "Bang Bang" by the Joe Cuba Sextet. The chant in "Bang Bang" was incorporated into "Bad Girls" after a gig Joe Cuba's sextet played for a black...
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    musical career, Acosta played and recorded with Joe Quijano, Tony Pabon and La Protesta, Bobby Rodriguez, Joe Cuba, Orchestra Flamboyan, Vitin Aviles, Ismael...
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    Manteca (song) (category Afro-Cuban jazz)
    Gillespie is heard singing, "I'll never go back to Georgia". In 1965, the Joe Cuba Sextet got their first crossover hit with the Latin and soul fusion of...
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    Cuba and the United States restored diplomatic relations on July 20, 2015, after relations had been severed in 1961 during the Cold War. U.S. diplomatic...
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    Mary Joe Fernández Godsick (born María José Fernández; August 19, 1971) is an American former professional tennis player, who reached a career-high ranking...
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    Salsa music (category Cuban styles of music)
    Salsa music is a style of Caribbean music, combining elements of Cuban, Puerto Rican, and American influences. Because most of the basic musical components...
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  • A.. The song has been covered by various Latin music artists, such as Joe Cuba (1963 and 1970, in a medley with "Aprieta el pollo"), Azúcar Moreno (1990)...
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  • Defeated Hovhannes Bachkov (Armenia) 5-0 Finals: Defeated by Andy Cruz (Cuba) 4-1 Lima 2019 Quarter-finals: Defeated Luis Arcon (Venezuela) W/O Semi-finals:...
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    on stage name Cuban Link and associated with fellow rappers Big Pun and Triple Seis in a group under the name Full-A-Clips. After Fat Joe signed to Atlantic...
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    2014. Gonzalez, Jessica (2 April 2015). "Cuba on Deck?". ESPN Press Room. ESPN. Retrieved 2 April 2015. "IMDb – Joe Kehoskie". IMDb. Retrieved 18 September...
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    Mark Cuban (born July 31, 1958) is an American businessman and television personality. He is the former principal owner and current minority owner of...
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    dictatorship which reigned as the government of Cuba between 1952 and 1959. It began after the 1952 Cuban coup d'état which saw former president and military...
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    press White House to keep Cuba on terror list, thehill.com; accessed November 15, 2014. Joe Garcia brings a different Cuban-American view to Congress...
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    demonstrators called on President Joe Biden to take action in Cuba. The Biden administration sanctioned a key Cuban official and a government special...
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    Joe Santos (born Joseph John Minieri Jr.; June 9, 1931 – March 18, 2016) was an American film and television actor, best known as Sgt. Dennis Becker (later...
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    Steven Bauer (category Cuban male television actors)
    portraying Joe Peña, the son of Cuban immigrants on ¿Qué Pasa, USA? (1977–1979). He played Manolo "Manny" Ribera, the right-hand man of Cuban drug lord...
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    Rubén Blades (category Afro-Cuban jazz bandleaders)
    (ensemble), Bush y sus Magníficos. His strongest influence of the day was the Joe Cuba sextet and Cheo Feliciano, whose singing style he copied to the point of...
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    Joe Navarro (born May 26, 1953) is a Cuban-born American author, public speaker, and former FBI agent and supervisor. Navarro specializes in the area of...
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    of Tito Puente, Machito, Tito Rodriguez, Eddie Palmieri, Larry Harlow, Joe Cuba, La Playa Sextet and of course Arvito & His Latin Rhythms. All of these...
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    immigrants living in New York City in the 1950s were of Puerto Rican or Cuban descent, "Latin music" had been stereotyped as music simply originating...
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