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Angel Canales
12+ albums
salsalatinSalsa Dura70spuerto rico
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Ángel Luis Canales (Santurce, June 29, 1950), is a Puerto Rican salsa singer, based in New York. He is one of the great surviving salseros, among whose successes are "Nostalgia", "Sol de mi vida", "Lejos de ti", "Hace tiempo", and his famous version of the bolero "Dos gardenias". Biography He was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico. At the age of eight he moved with his family to New York where he lived in East Harlem. Received from small great musical influence being the music of Cortijo and his Combo and the one of Ismael Rivera those that marked him more like musician. He began as a timbalist in Ray Jay's Orchestra. It was in this orchestra where he debuted as a singer when he had to replace the vocalist. Then he joined the group of Mark Dimond, former pianist Willie Columbus. The group then changed its name to "Ángel Canales y Sabor". With this orchestra the successes were made "Flavor of the New Rumberos", "Lejos de Ti" and "Perico Macoña". He is recognized for his interpretation of the bolero "Dos gardenias". By the way he distributes the structure of the choirs of his songs (generally, he uses two choirs with different lyrics in the montuno), his attitude on the stage and by the peculiar timbre of his voice, Ángel Canales is called "El Diferente". Biography and trajectory Ángel Luis Canales was born on June 29, 1950 in Santurce, Puerto Rico. His parents Ángel Luis Canales Sr. and Ana Ilda Canales brought him to El Barrio del Alto Manhattan, New York, at the age of 8 ye
