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Article: A tale of three cities: an interview with Rudy Regalado. (músico venezolano)(TA: Venezuelan musician)(Interview)
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- Latin Beat Magazine
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- June 1, 1998
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An Interview With Rudy Regalado
Venezuelan bandleader/timbalero Héctor "Rudy" Regalado is a native of Caracas, renowned once as the city with the largest consumption of whiskey in the entire planet, an intoxicating phenomenon derived from the availability of petrodollars.
When he was barely a teenager, Regalado moved to San Juan, Puerto Rico, a city with a fascinating history. For example it has been documented that Charles V-King of Spain and Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire-instructed the governor of Puerto Rico, back in 1593, to establish two houses of prostitution in the San Juan waterfront to eliminate sex crimes against the good women of this young ...