Tito Gomez

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Tito Gómez, 2007

Tito Gómez (born April 9, 1948 in Juana Díaz , Puerto Rico ; † June 11, 2007 in Cali , Colombia ), actually Luís Alberto Gómez, was a well-known Puerto Rican salsa singer .

Career

Tito Gómez began singing for the group Conjunto Antoanetti at the age of 15, before joining the combo Sonora Ponceña as accompanying lead singer in 1967 . Then he took over the vocals together with Rubén Blades in a formation newly founded by Ray Barretto . He returned to Sonora Ponceña temporarily for two years before going to Venezuela in 1979 . Tito Gómez worked there for a while with La Amistad, a band made up of former members of the group La Dimensión Latina . In 1982 Gómez returned to Puerto Rico and worked as a solo musician. From 1985 to 1993 Tito Gómez lived in Cali , Colombia , and had a very successful time as the lead singer of the Grupo Niche . In 1990 he started a solo career again, lived in Miami / Florida and brought the album "Un Nuevo Horizonte" with the hit single "Dejala" onto the market. In 2000 his musical career ended prematurely because he was arrested for transporting counterfeit money and had to serve a sentence in a federal prison. After his release, Gómez attempted a comeback in 2004. During a tour with Grupo Niche, he died on June 11, 2007 of complications from a heart attack in Cali. His greatest hits include songs like "Déjala", "Guararé", "Página de Amor", "Déjame volver", "Amor de Papel", "Ganas" and "Nuestro secreto".

Discography

  • Para Gozar Borinquen (1977)
  • Un Nuevo Horizonte (1991)
  • Agradecimiento (1993)
  • Recogiendo Frutos (1995)
  • Volver (1997)
  • ¿Quien Nos Iba A Decir? (2000)
  • Las Páginas de Mi Vida (2001)
  • Comenzando en cero (2004)
  • La Herencia (2007)
  • 14 Grandes Exitos

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ or Humberto Luis Gómez as on www.descarga.com/cgi-bin/db/.../Profile54
  2. ↑ sung in a duet with Tito Rojas
  3. ↑ sung in a duet with Ruben Blades
  4. ↑ http://www.malianteo.com/foros/f144/tito-gomez-discografia-121695/
  5. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from April 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.elvacilonmusical.com

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personal data
SURNAME Gomez, Tito
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gómez, Luís Alberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Puerto Rican musician
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Juana Díaz , Puerto Rico
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 2007
Place of death Cali , Colombia