José Luis Moneró (April 6, 1921 – February 15, 2011) was a Puerto Rican

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and

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Music career

Moneró first sang at the Tapia Theater at age 17. He then went on to

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. And thereafter his name began to gain popularity with bands like Luis Morales, La Tropicana and Pepito Torres and his unforgettable Siboney. Like many of his contemporaries in the 1940s, Moneró migrated north to settle in

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. There he took trumpet lessons with Charles Colin. He played and sang with

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and José Curbelo. Later he was recruited by Xavier Cougat to sing with his Orchestra. In the 1980s the singer Julio Angel recruited him to share star in two recording projects of excellence: "50 años de nostalgia" and "Evocando el Ayer". Subsequently, the label disk Hit son released you a compact print live in which, under the production of Salvador Rosa, he shared star with Lucy Fabery, Ruth Fernández, Los Montemar, Tato Díaz and German Dayivet, among others. It documents the concert "Tributo a José Luis Moneró" that produced by Carmen Junco and Edna Rivera appeared in the Center of fine arts of Santurce on 5 September 2002. Moneró was the father of four and was married for twenty years to the former Tere Haddock and was 89 at the time of his death on February 15, 2011, in an elderly home, in

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. His prominence led

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to order flags flown at half staff for three days when informed of the musician's death.

Sources

Music of Puerto Rico – Biography

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Monero, Jose Luis 1922 births 2011 deaths People from Juncos, Puerto Rico Puerto Rican musicians Puerto Rican bandleaders