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Article: A BITE FROM THE APPLE.
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- Latin Beat Magazine
- Article date:
- June 1, 1999
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1999 Latin Beat Magazine. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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For me, the month of April was a grand chapter of a simply spectacular spring. On April 7, I made my way, via bus number 167, into Manhattan. Looking out the window, I remembered sneaking away many times on this very same bus route in my teenage years, to the Cheetah, which was located on 52nd Street and Eighth Avenue, in the heart of the Apple. I witnessed so much great music there during the height of the Fania days -- indeed, I was present at the taping of the Fania movie there, as was musician Ralph Irizarry, who also admitted to "playing hookey" one night. Those were the days that I thought I was so cool, when, at the age of fourteen, I was talking to Barretto in the ...
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