Daniel Santos (singer)
Daniel Santos ( born February 5, 1916 in Santurce, Puerto Rico, † November 27, 1992 in Ocala, Florida), known as " El Jefe " and "El Inquieto Anacobero ", was one of the greatest singers and composers of Latin American popular music.
Life
Daniel Santos grew up in the barrio of Santurce Trastalleres on. To school after the fourth grade he had to quit to help his parents as a shoeshine boy financially. 1924 came the family to New York City, where Santos again attended school, learned English, and sang in the school choir. At the age of fourteen he took his own apartment.
He was discovered by a member of the Trío Lírico By chance, with whom he soon appeared regularly at the Borinquen Club Social. In 1938 he met Pedro Flores know, who received him in his group, El Cuarteto Flores. With the group, which also Myrta Silva and Pedro Ortiz Davila later belonged, Santos was known and sung many popular titles, including Despedida (1941 ) and Linda (1942 ), the Flores had composed for him.
He was then in place of Miguelito Valdés member of the orchestra of Xavier Cugat, before he was drafted into military service in the U.S. Army. During this time he approached the Puerto Rican independence movement and the Partido Nacionalista de Puerto Rico under Pedro Albizu Campos, which earned him problems with the U.S. government and the FBI. With his friend Pedro Ortiz Davila ( " Davilita " ) he sang at this time patriotic songs on texts by Juan Antonio Corretjer.
Since the late 1940s Santos leveled fifteen years between New York City and Cuba and composed in this period, around 400 songs. He sympathized with the revolution of Fidel Castro, and his song became the anthem of the Sierra Maestra Movimiento 26 de Julio. After he had heard that Castro plan to train children for the military, he retired disillusioned.
He then appeared at the radio station Suaritos alternating with musicians like Toña la Negra and finally got the Radio Progreso a contract to perform with the group Sonora Matancera with which he performed successful ventures by composers such as Pablo Cairo, Isolina Carrillo and Jesús Guerra.
Santos ' moving unsettled life - he was three times married and had great parts of his services into alcohol - inspired several writers to biographical works about him, so Josean Ramos on the amendment Vengo a decirle adiós a los muchachos, Salvador Garmendia to the book El Inquieto Anacobero and Luis Rafael Sánchez de La importancia llamarse Daniel Santos. According to their own narratives Santos ' wrote Héctor El Mújica Inquieto Anacobero: confesiones de Daniel Santos a Héctor Mújica (1982).
Santos took more than 700 songs in about 300 LPs that appeared in the United States, Mexico, Venezuela, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Chile. Since the late 1980s, several recordings were re-laid on CD.