Fania All-Stars created music using a variety of genres, including those of salsa, boogaloo, Cuban Jazz and Latin R&B. Jerry Masucci, an Italian-American lawyer and Johnny Pacheco, a talented composer and bandleader born in the Dominican Republic, founded Fania Records.
Yuri Buenaventura has been called the “brightest New Star from South-America”. Also named “Salsero Don Quijote” (or written as Don Quixote) by international media.
Born in Puerto Rico but raised in the States, Tito Nieves (Humberto Nieves) began his career participating in Cimarrón, an orchestra based in New York. He formed a group with Héctor Lavoe in 1977 and joined Conjunto Clásico soon after.