JOHNNY PACHECO ARRIVED MELON
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Melon are reached when it began to be in his prime. Was critical of the legendary Mexican band Son Clave de Oro that already had programs in the XEW radio and was hired to animate several films. Melon was born to 1934 (?) In Mexico City, on the street Naranjo of the Santa Maria la Ribera. The singer first heard him play Cuban son was in the neighborhood where his maternal grandmother. "I heard nice, I was surprised and wanted to play what he was hearing." A big influence was overheard in the street Ferruzca David Clover, "Caricaballo, director of a group called the Latino who designed several soneros of the colony, as Luis Gonzalez and Tony Perez Camargo. On the same street lived her aunt Josephine. I heard them sing "Sorry", "Irresistible" and "Farewell", things that sounded Daniel Santos on local radio. Given his young age never noticed if it was their own music from Mexico, were many times that Doña Paz (his mom) he removed the doors of bars, jalándole ears because it was happening, listening to albums such fantastic fashion treasured in their bulky equipment bodies.
began his musical interests with a War trio called the ear, the Bonilla brothers. Because he could not play the guitar, the maracas that day she had at home and raided with them, he liked to suggest that you take every day. The trio began mounting numbers fashion as "The dead man was rumba", "This is the alligator," "The cock-eyed or" Micaela ", and the trio hit the colony riquillos hired them to serenade. War charged to your ear only a bottle of tequila for the sleepless and transport of its musicians.
Armando Thomae was trumpeter with The Caribbean Guajiros who heard him sing at a party and proposed integrating this group; Melon says that one of these parties said
- Hey. Do not sing badly, but since you're a little out of square. Is not sing like you are?
- Of course.
"Look, why not attend the trials of our group?
The group was made up musically well-educated people, studying at the School of Music. Its director was Toño, who made the arrangements, Armando began at school and Cesar Molina on trumpet, he was just learning to read music. The conga, Jesus Vasquez, they said Fufu, and it was who gave him the nickname "Melon" because apparently, Luis Silva had his head like a melon, [so stubborn]. Angel Romero was also Donís, The boy, who played the bongos, indeed, it was said that it was a natural sonero. The Caribbean Guajiros was his kindergarten in 1949, began in the choir as an opportunity that was given to sing, did not conform well to the track proposal. To improve your voice and style discs bought Kiko Mendive Cascarita and studied them by hearing them over and over again. She put the mirror listening to the album, playing the maracas and after much give, began to improve. Over time its official singer, Toño Espino gave the group staying in Ciudad Juárez. It was in this way replaces Melon Espino and debuted as a singer.
In a tour of Ciudad Juárez in 1949, with the Guajiros the Caribbean, the young singer was charmed to be bop, he heard, first, Woody Hermann discs and Gene Krupa, and then, with some orchestras that came to El Paso. Remember that the Chinese Palace orchestra played Juarez Roy Ramos, whose pianist Willy Guzman singing this kind of jazz. Melon worked in the cabaret La Cucaracha and used to spend their spare time going to listen. The fusion of bebop with the Cuban would be the label that you would print the sextet formed in 1958 with Carlos Daniel Navarro Wolf. "
Melon King of Rhythm met in mid-1949. With time he came to talk to him and develop a good friendship. In 1950 recorded in the choruses of Benny Moré for film number was called "Bocón [Juan Bruno Terraza]. That record was a tremendous lesson, it is said that there were two singers who did not like the width and could not find replacement Tarraza Benny told I needed a good singer, Melon, told the great Benny:
- I'm going to do the chorus and inspiration at the same time. Melon
was so amazed, he was wrong twice, but when they finally docked, Benny grabbed the head that is the custom of the Cubans when they do things well. Thereafter, Melon attended with more frequencies to the actions of the King of Rhythm.
melon also count of his life says:
"In my beginnings, which date back to 1949, there soneros very good at all familiar with the instruments which are in every sense of the word. It was the obligation to play properly with respect to the key in a word, it should be. The sets were first class, as would known chronicler of football. I remember among pianists to Old Luis, Daniel de la Vega, Salomón Jiménez, Toño Espino, Fayo Cabrero, Pepe Bustos, Luis Lozano, and Chicken not speak because he arrived later and would lend itself to suspicion. But you, my enkrukoro, can have their say about Chavez Mauro Enrique Vergara, who was his name. "
In 1951, while working at the Astoria nightclub in the Caribbean Guajiros, Melon met Guillermo Shur Guatemalan diplomat who visited them often and invited him to his house to listen to records. So could know what was "cooking" in New York, Machito, Tito Puente with Picadilly Boys, Tito Rodriguez and his Lobos del Mambo, Joe Loco (Jose Estevez), Julio Andino and Arsenio Rodríguez, "these recordings were in 45 revolutions, with this updated his repertoire and was updated with the rhythms of the "Casa del Mambo" the Palladium. The connection with the Caribbean Guajiros was short lived as after a tap in the city of Juarez, the group disintegrated.
- Hey Melon. Would you like to stay with us?
- would be a dream
- Well, you left off. Nothing but you have to get harder.
stayed some years with The Devils in the Tropics, because he had to learn the songs "Youth Amaliana" or "Pancho the Ripiao" which was not known, it apparently proved difficult. Whenever played the key went bad, crossed the key. To be unable to meet the requirement that made him, his problems began, however, even though his contract was canceled, in some seasons for the Devils continued to sing. He enjoyed playing with them, because the Tropic Devils were a group sonero. There were no American songs, and music to brighten up the dinner, was are pure. So save much love, respect and admiration for that set.
formed his first band, The Martians, pure band playing cha cha cha until one day he filled a suitcase with drugs and had to go four months in jail. Was acquitted, but he was a federal crime to spend all he had to the process until the sentence inside. Were four months when he had to sing a lot in order to gain respect and a place among the prisoners. He was in jail a trio called The Enemies of Silence. Upon release for 1957 created a group called Sensation Combo, in his personal opinion and played better than Lobo Melon - "only that they were very undisciplined and were late for their trials, that was why I left them on a tour for Acapulco. " It was precisely in Acapulco Wolf [Carlos Daniel Navarro Pulido] persuaded him to form a new grouping. Source
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