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Johnny Pacheco: from the new tumbao to the old tumbao

2021-02-25T23:40:23.935Z


The great myth of Latin music, recently deceased, reviewed his intense life and the achievements of his career in this extensive interview he gave in 1995 to the Cuban writer Leonardo Padura for his book 'Los rostros de la salsa'


Johnny Pacheco, at a concert in Amsterdam in 1988.Frans Schellekens / GETTY IMAGES

The Cuban writer Leonardo Padura published last year

Los faces de la salsa

(Tusquets), a book in which the author offers an intimate portrait of the genre through conversations with its main icons, such as Rubén Blades, Willie Colón, Juan Formell and Johnny Pacheco.

We reproduce in full the one that he maintained in 1995 with the latter,

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