Johnny Zamot

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Johnny Ray is a famed percussionist and band leader of Puerto Rican extraction. Born in Quebradillas, a small town in the western coast of Puerto Rico, as Juan Zamot, the child, was raised in Aguadilla, and later moved to New York City at age 10. It was in the city of New York where Johnny quickly took a strong interest in the percussive sounds that backed the growing Latin music movement which was pervasive in the city then. Soon, the youthful percussionist knew that his future was geared, not only to becoming a Latin musician, but to being a band-leader as well. Getting into the music scene as a sideman, basically by playing the timbal and the bongos for the top Latin bands in New York, the percussionist soon discovered his love for another percussion instrument, the conga drum. “The congas allowed me to express my musical feelings more freely”, said Ray in an interview with Juan Moreno Velázquez, of el diario-LA PRENSA in New York, “the congas incited a different fire in me and I fell in love with their sound and their potential to guide the musical feeling into the dancer’s core. Playing the congas was like getting a charge of energy,” Johnny confesses. “The more I played, the more energized I became. That feeling is still with me today and it continues to affect not only the musicians in the band but also the people in the audience.” John then embarked in a never ending process of discovering himself through the instrument and became a highly applied student in the purs

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Johnny Zamot Introduces The Boogaloo Frog

Boogaloo Frog

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Soul Jazz Records Presents New York Latin Hustle

Tell It Like It Is

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Dancing by Myself - Lost in Nothern Soul

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Long Live Boogaloo

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NYC Salsa Vol 2

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New York Latin Hustle! The Sound Of New York (Disc 1)

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The Nuyorican Salsa Experience

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The Boogaloo Frog

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New York Latin Hustle! The Sound Of New York [Disc 1]

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N.Y.C Salsa Vol 2

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