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Donde Está La Música (episode 6) - Richie Viruet & The Blue Clave All Stars
featuring Frankie Vazquez

Recorded live at the West Gate Lounge in Nyack, NY on March 30, 2013.

Donde Está La Música (where the music is) with host Ed Castaneda. This exciting new YouTube video program produced by MusicaNewYork.com follows the Tri-State's Latin music scene and will take you to the area's top Latin music night clubs and events with music performances, interviews and news about the area's hottest bands.

About Richie Viruet
Born, raised, and musically educated in NYC, Richie started his musical pursuits at age 6 playing guitar via his mother who was a pro bass player/vocalist at the time. By age 9, he was playing trumpet. Classically and Jazz trained, by age 14 and thanks to his family opening doors, Richie started performing professionally with local salsa and merengue bands. By age 19, to the present day, his career has taken off and he has been performing professionally and/or working on a freelance level, has recorded, jammed, arranged for, and associated himself with some of the world's greatest artists and musical icons: Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, Eddie Palmieri, Ray Barretto, Tito Nieves, Jose Alberto"El Canario", Marc Anthony, La India, Larry Harlow and the Latin Legends Band, Spanish Harlem Orchestra, Latin Giants of Jazz, La Sonora Matancera, Hector Lavoe, Frankie Ruiz, Victor Manuelle, Gilberto Santarosa, Conjunto Clasico, Ralph Irizarry's SonCafe & Timbalaye, Cano Estremera, Willie Rosario, Grupo Fascinacion, Milly Quesada, Sergio Vargas, Los Hermanos Lebron, Ray Sepulveda, Michael Stuart, Johnny Rivera, Jerry Rivera, DLG, Hall and Oats, Ray Charles, Chic Korea, Dizzie Gillespie, Red Rodney, Wynton Marsalis, and many, many more. In 2006 Richie participated in the movie "El Cantante," the story about Hector Lavoe's life. In the film he plays Hector's trumpeter throughout the stages of his career.

For more info and to contact Richie Viruet go to: https://www.facebook.com/#!/richiem.viruet

About Frankie Vazquez
Born in Salinas, Puerto Rico, Frankie Vazquez and his family relocated to New York City when he was six months old. Around his 10th birthday, his father bought a conga drum from a neighbor and placed it in Vazquez's room. Every day after school, the young Vazquez would bang on the drum to the music of his mother's records (El Gran Combo, Cortijo and Eddie Palmieri), and consequently became good at it. By his 12th birthday, his father acquired a second conga to further bolster his son's musical talent. Soon after, his parents sent him back to Puerto Rico to live with his grandparents in the city of Guayama, where years later, they also relocated.

In Guayama, Vazquez completed his academic education and started playing the conga with local salsa and merengue bands. By age 16, he had formed his own band and was playing at his father's bar/restaurant in Guayama every weekend. He continued playing his preferred instrument without much consideration of singing, beyond doing a chorus here and there. After about a year of bandleading, his lead singer started to forego rehearsals and eventually left the band. Necessity being the mother of invention, Vazquez began leading the vocals during rehearsals of his band, who kindly informed him that he was a better singer than a conguero; they also felt that it was easier to find a conga player than a singer. From that point on, Vazquez became the band's lead singer and has continued to make a career as a vocalist ever since. Subsequently, he went on to form two other bands in Guayama: Frankie Vazquez & Los Generales and Frankie Vazquez & La Compacta.

For more info and to contact Frankie Vazquez go to: https://www.facebook.com/fvazquez56?fref=ts


WEST GATE LOUNGE
Best Western Nyack On Hudson
26 Route 59 Nyack, NY 10960
Phone: (845) 358-8100

The West Gate Lounge is New York's Finest Latin Nightclub
for over 25 Years......

Latin Dance Lessons from 8-10pm
DJ starts: 10pm
Live Music: 11pm
Free Parking

Seating is limited - please make your table reservations today,
call (845) 358-8100 ext. 301 ask for Lisa.

For more info on The West Gate Lounge and driving directions go to: http://www.westgatelounge.com


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