Tributes to salsa great Johnny Pacheco following death aged 85

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Johnny Pacheco was a musician who co-founded Fania Records, where he helped create salsa music and bring it into the mainstream.Pacheco, a native of the Dominican Republic who came to New York City with his family as a boy, learned to play many instruments including accordion, violin, and flute. He began playing professionally in the early 1950s and formed his own band in 1960, Pacheco y su Charanga.

Johnny Pacheco, ‘El Maestro de la Salsa’, has passed away at 85. Juan Azarías Pacheco - the given name of the Dominican musician - leaves a great legacy not only in salsa, but also in the genres that derive from him.

Johnny Pacheco (El Maestro), the co-founder of trailblazing salsa label Fania Records and salsa icon, died at 85. He was Eddie Palmieri’s bandmate.

A representative for Fania said Pacheco was “the man most responsible for the genre of salsa music. He was a visionary and his music will live on eternally.

Billboard reports that Pacheco had previously “been hospitalised for complications stemming from pneumonia”.Fania Records, which came to be known as the ‘Latin Motown’, was set up by Pacheco and Jerry Masucci in 1963. The pair started the label selling records from their car boots in Harlem, New York.Influential artists who released music on the label included Héctor Lavoe, Cheo Feliciano and Celia Cruz.

A.D. Amorosi Johnny Pacheco, the Dominican Republic-born flautist-turned-bandleader and the co-founder of the influential Fania Records, the label that brought salsa to the global mainstream, died on Feb.15 in Teaneck, New Jersey.

Salsa music pioneer and Fania Records co-founder Johnny Pacheco has died. Fania Records announced Pacheco’s death on Instagram Monday afternoon. He was 85.

Sydney – dubbed Steak & Kidney by some of his fans, Tam said: “I’m absolutely gutted. He was a proper pal and I’d been going to see him perform live for years.“I never missed his shows at the Pavilion and always went to see him backstage.“Sydney was good fun and a laugh.