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Tito Puente's 1962 cha-cha-chá (El Rey Bravo, Tico): its repeating block-chord vamp was, in Wikipedia's words, "most likely borrowed by Puente from Cachao's...

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Tito Puente's 1962 cha-cha-chá (El Rey Bravo, Tico): its repeating block-chord vamp was, in Wikipedia's words, "most likely borrowed by Puente from Cachao's 1957 mambo 'Chanchullo'" — a portable riff that survived translation into Santana's 1970 rock language.

Composer
Tito Puente
Year
1962
Lineage
chachachá→Latin rock

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