Hostos to honor Throggs
Neck’s Latin music artist
manager, Richie Bonilla
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Latin music artist manager, Richie Bonilla.
Photo courtesy of Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture
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The Hostos Center for the
Arts & Culture opens its 2019
Fall Season with ‘A Salute to
Richie Bonilla,’ the long-time
Latin Music Artist Manager,
with a selection of artists he
managed paying tribute in a
star-studded concert on Saturday,
October 12 at 7:30 p.m. in
the Main Theater.
There will be performances
by the Puerto Rican singer/
songwriter and former Fania
All-Star Ismael Miranda,
singer Joe Bataan ‘The King
of Latin Soul,’ the Grammy
Winning Cuban vocalist Albita,
former Tito Puente vocalist
Frankie Morales, timbalero
Orlando Marin, known
as ‘the last Mambo King,’ the
highly energetic instrumental
and vocal duo Los Hermanos
Moreno, virtuoso fl utist Connie
Grossman and the Steven
Oquendo Mambo Orchestra.
Noted broadcaster Felipe Luciano
will serve as Master of
Ceremonies. A dance follows
at 9:30 p.m. in the Hostos Café
with DJ Brian Martínez spinning
Salsa favorites.
As a teenager growing up
in the Bronx, Richie Bonilla
organized concerts in basements
with doo-wop groups,
and later young Latin artists,
including a young Eddie
Palmieri, at various venues
including different rooms at
the Hunts Point Palace.
After graduating from
Samuel Gompers High School,
and service in the Navy, he
continued to set up concerts
and organize musicians. In
the mid-60s, he discovered
and managed the career of the
Bronx group Pete Rodríguez
and Su Cojunto who were pioneers
in the popular Latin
dance craze -- the Boogaloo
– of which their hit ‘I Like It
Like That’ was an anthem.
Another discovery was a
16-year old Willie Colón.
Over his career, Bonilla
has managed nearly 100 artists
including Héctor LaVoe,
Ray Barretto, Ismael Rivera,
Orquesta de La Luz, Eddie
Santiago, and Israel ‘Cachao’
López. In the late 60s and early
70s, Bonilla was instrumental
in bringing salsa to new countries
especially Panama as
well as Venezuela, Curacao,
Aruba, Martinique, Guadalupe,
St. Thomas and St. Croix
in addition to Japan and Africa.
He is revered by the Latin
jazz community for all that he
did in caring for his longtime
client, the late fl utist Dave Valentin
after his two strokes. At
the age of 82, Bonilla is still active
in setting up tours of Latin
artists to Japan, China, Ecua-
dor and Mexico, and co-producing
salsa concerts for the
Hostos Center. He lives with
his wife of 60 years, Ellie, in
Throggs Neck and they have a
son and two grandsons.
Tickets for the show are
$45 and $35, ($40 and $30 for
seniors) with $5 tickets for
students and are available at
www.hostoscenter.org or by
calling (718) 518-4455. Tickets
for the after-concert dance, for
concert ticket holders only, are
$10. Box offi ce window hours
are Monday through Friday, 1
to 4 p.m., and two hours prior
to performance.
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