That is why he is like imitating a drunk guy from 0:5 to 0:10. You heard a made up version to deny Americans. I heard other versions that make no sense too. Mambas are African snakes that are like Cobras, they move back and forth, not side to side. Voodoo Sorcerers moved back and forth too imitating a Mamba Snake and were called Mambas in Africa and Cuba but they didn't do the organized steps that "Los Mambos" created and we still use in Salsa. That is what a Master Instructor showed to me.
The Back and Forth kind of dance called 'Mambo' (not the side to side) was done by joking (or DRUNK) Americans in 1940's due they knew Charleston Dances . Its a modified Charleston "Two Step" Dance applied to "Guaguanco' songs by "drunks". The 'Mambo' name is cause with that back and forth way of dancing they looked like African Mambas (or Cobras in India language). Cubans Dancing side to side (SAMBA STYLE) used to joke at Drunk Americans dancing Charleston to it and called them "Los Mambos".
@Salsa3914 I learned that from a big Dancing Academy Instructor in New Jersey, he demo it to me and show me articles from the 1940's. I didn't believe it at beginning too but after we did that Charleston step then changed to Mambo Step I saw how similar they are. No one does Charleston any more at all in USA, but Salsa with the Mambo step YES, AND A LOT.
Tito Puente was born in New York from pure Puerto Rican parents and grew up in a PR neighborhood. Served in WW2 and won medals. Went to college to study music and always called himself PR from NYC. This is one of his songs.
Are you trying to claim he was Mexican now, salsa3914? Not even in 2010 there are very good Mexican Salsa Dancers. They are still stuck in the 1800's Polka, Waltz and other variations of that. Only them and other Latin pheasants listen to. Cuban Pete was Puerto Rican.
Stop the Cultural Claim Jumping and modernize your Cavemen Country.
You should start reading properly. You're adressing "cleverkim", not me, and you misunderstood him. The only Mexican here was cleverkim's grandfather.
He never pretended to be Cuban, and it was not a matter of "lies", just a friendly nick name given to him in a dance contest by Desi Arnaz. After all, a lot of the music he was dancing to was Cuban, and he often went to Cuba with his pal Raoul Batitsta, the presidents nephew. He knew a lot about Cuban music and dance, a suitable nick name.
@bebop54 Sorry if I have been unclear/read properly. I've tried to make it clear he was Puerto Rican, but it doesn't seem to help. He used the nick name "Cuban Pete", which doesn't mean he pretended to be Cuban. I'm not latino or part of any "Cuban bubble". Salsa is from what I can see Nyorican with Afro Cuban roots. As far as I know he carried his nickname proudly, I do find it suitable. Latinos are so sensitive about this, it's ridiculous.
i know you are not latin from the comment you wrote & the fact that " latinos are so sensitive"
but if the truth were told you would have to admit that if i called you an 'albanian or a russian or a frenchman , you might feel compelled to correct me & i wonder how " sensitive" you would feel if i found it
" suitable" to call you something you are not ...
@bebop54 salsa is PURELY CUBAN its called son,danson,chachacha,guaracha,mambo etc, cubans brought it to newyork and puertoricans followed our cuban rythm
@bebop54 sorry to inform u dummy but this started in cuba ! the rythm or music wasn't formed in africa even though we know its of african descent, it was put together in cuba end of story
Cuban Pete was Puerto Rican? So why that Cuban actor named him Cuban Pete?
That was just another Cuban Arrogance example. They love their lies. I was fooled for decades that he was Cuban and not from my Puerto Rico like someone told me before but i thought he was wrong.
@CFITOMAHAWK2 My Grandfather was the percussionist for Perez Prado during the Paladium years and he said they wanted him to say he was Cuban even though he was Mexican because being Cuban was cool...being Mexican was not. He refused, but he said alot of musicians did it... Im sure many dancers did too.
the greatest vocalists without a doubt come from PR ...
NOBODY can touch santos colon , ismael rivera , ismael miranda , pete rodriquez , daniel santos et al ...hector ...so very many greats !@killuminati43
A Tribute to a Great Dancer...a very good dancer and I could never be a fraction of as good a dancer...actually can't dance at all...so always lucky to watch and enjoy anyone who can dance so well...he is a "Master"...so God Bless Cuban Pete...and my condolences to his family and friends.
puerto rican dance legend...cuban pete?
TheDoctorGrenade 7 months ago
Esto es solo una version ridicula de la manera de bailar del cubano, dan risa.
casinoparatodos 10 months ago
That is why he is like imitating a drunk guy from 0:5 to 0:10. You heard a made up version to deny Americans. I heard other versions that make no sense too. Mambas are African snakes that are like Cobras, they move back and forth, not side to side. Voodoo Sorcerers moved back and forth too imitating a Mamba Snake and were called Mambas in Africa and Cuba but they didn't do the organized steps that "Los Mambos" created and we still use in Salsa. That is what a Master Instructor showed to me.
CFITOMAHAWK2 1 year ago
The Back and Forth kind of dance called 'Mambo' (not the side to side) was done by joking (or DRUNK) Americans in 1940's due they knew Charleston Dances . Its a modified Charleston "Two Step" Dance applied to "Guaguanco' songs by "drunks". The 'Mambo' name is cause with that back and forth way of dancing they looked like African Mambas (or Cobras in India language). Cubans Dancing side to side (SAMBA STYLE) used to joke at Drunk Americans dancing Charleston to it and called them "Los Mambos".
CFITOMAHAWK2 1 year ago
@CFITOMAHAWK2 now that is interesting and thank you so much for sharing that information. I think both styles are bad-ass.
alafia24 1 year ago
@CFITOMAHAWK2 Never heard that version of the story behind the word "Mambo". Any source?
Salsa3914 1 year ago
@Salsa3914 I learned that from a big Dancing Academy Instructor in New Jersey, he demo it to me and show me articles from the 1940's. I didn't believe it at beginning too but after we did that Charleston step then changed to Mambo Step I saw how similar they are. No one does Charleston any more at all in USA, but Salsa with the Mambo step YES, AND A LOT.
CFITOMAHAWK2 1 year ago
@CFITOMAHAWK2 The 'mambo' name actually comes from the African, and it means 'conversation with the voodoo gods', nothing to do with snakes!
kat277 1 year ago
Tito Puente was born in New York from pure Puerto Rican parents and grew up in a PR neighborhood. Served in WW2 and won medals. Went to college to study music and always called himself PR from NYC. This is one of his songs.
CFITOMAHAWK2 1 year ago 2
dayum right !!!!! @CFITOMAHAWK2
bebop54 1 year ago
Are you trying to claim he was Mexican now, salsa3914? Not even in 2010 there are very good Mexican Salsa Dancers. They are still stuck in the 1800's Polka, Waltz and other variations of that. Only them and other Latin pheasants listen to. Cuban Pete was Puerto Rican.
Stop the Cultural Claim Jumping and modernize your Cavemen Country.
CFITOMAHAWK2 1 year ago
@CFITOMAHAWK2
You should start reading properly. You're adressing "cleverkim", not me, and you misunderstood him. The only Mexican here was cleverkim's grandfather.
Salsa3914 1 year ago
jajajaaa @CFITOMAHAWK2
bebop54 1 year ago
He never pretended to be Cuban, and it was not a matter of "lies", just a friendly nick name given to him in a dance contest by Desi Arnaz. After all, a lot of the music he was dancing to was Cuban, and he often went to Cuba with his pal Raoul Batitsta, the presidents nephew. He knew a lot about Cuban music and dance, a suitable nick name.
Salsa3914 1 year ago
sorry friend you are mistaken ..
it is not a " suitable" name.. ..
pete' was very proud of 'borinquen ' & i had the great honor to know him personally so this is DE FACTO .
also the greatest female mambo dancer of all time was italian not cuban ....
sorry to bust your cuban bubble but the whole phenomenon of salsa
( a commercial word by the way)
was the FUSION of different latin cultures that culminated in NYC ..
your comment very condescending & inaccurate... @Salsa3914
bebop54 1 year ago 2
@bebop54 Sorry if I have been unclear/read properly. I've tried to make it clear he was Puerto Rican, but it doesn't seem to help. He used the nick name "Cuban Pete", which doesn't mean he pretended to be Cuban. I'm not latino or part of any "Cuban bubble". Salsa is from what I can see Nyorican with Afro Cuban roots. As far as I know he carried his nickname proudly, I do find it suitable. Latinos are so sensitive about this, it's ridiculous.
Salsa3914 1 year ago
'pete ' never called himself cuban ..
he ALWAYS refered to himself as a
'puerto rican ..
i know you are not latin from the comment you wrote & the fact that " latinos are so sensitive"
but if the truth were told you would have to admit that if i called you an 'albanian or a russian or a frenchman , you might feel compelled to correct me & i wonder how " sensitive" you would feel if i found it
" suitable" to call you something you are not ...
bebop54 1 year ago 3
@bebop54 Sigh.., calling someone "Cuban Pete" doesn't mean we are supposed to think he's actually Cuban. Why is this so difficult to understand?
Are you saying he hated his nick name and actually tried to get people to stop calling him "Cuban Pete"?
Salsa3914 1 year ago
as far as you know ? but you don't know,,
that's just the point ..
you don't know anything ..
you don't know him ..
you don't know the music &
you don't have respect ..
i bet you think tito puente was also cuban right ? jajaaa..
nothing like a self important knucklehead ..
bebop54 1 year ago
@bebop54 You're a funny guy, why would I believe Tito Puente was Cuban?
Salsa3914 1 year ago
@bebop54 You assume you know more than others
when really you don't have the type of information.
Quit labeling others and learn to quit sounding like a retarded pop eye.
81kamill 1 year ago
i DO know more than others ..
i was THERE & a friend to pedro & millie both ..
i was a palladium dancer & now teach ..
sorry sonny ..
@81kamill
bebop54 1 year ago
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bebop54 1 year ago 2
ps- do you think it's also "suitable" to call tito puente cuban ?
jaja
bebop54 1 year ago
@bebop54 If used as a NICKNAME, possibly. It's not the same thing as claiming him to be Cuban.
Salsa3914 1 year ago
@bebop54 salsa is PURELY CUBAN its called son,danson,chachacha,guaracha,mambo etc, cubans brought it to newyork and puertoricans followed our cuban rythm
ANARCHYGOD2012 1 year ago
the rythm is not 'yours' sorry to inform you ..
the rythms belong to mother africa & were to cuba from the yoruba culture ..
you should know who you are speaking to before you make a fool of yourself 'sonny' ...
bye now !
bebop54 1 year ago
"went" @bebop54
bebop54 1 year ago
@bebop54 sorry to inform u dummy but this started in cuba ! the rythm or music wasn't formed in africa even though we know its of african descent, it was put together in cuba end of story
ANARCHYGOD2012 1 year ago
Cuban Pete was Puerto Rican? So why that Cuban actor named him Cuban Pete?
That was just another Cuban Arrogance example. They love their lies. I was fooled for decades that he was Cuban and not from my Puerto Rico like someone told me before but i thought he was wrong.
CFITOMAHAWK2 1 year ago
@CFITOMAHAWK2 My Grandfather was the percussionist for Perez Prado during the Paladium years and he said they wanted him to say he was Cuban even though he was Mexican because being Cuban was cool...being Mexican was not. He refused, but he said alot of musicians did it... Im sure many dancers did too.
cleverkim 1 year ago
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bebop54 1 year ago
wow !
you must be very proud of your grandfather ..
a great percussionist in a great orquesta...
it's very true that the musicians were told to lie especially if they were dominicano ..
dancers however were not paid in any way so they didn't have to lie ...
the name stuck from a song called " cuban pete' ..
we can thank desi arnaz for that ..
i forgive him because of lucy jajaaa@cleverkim
bebop54 1 year ago
@CFITOMAHAWK2... Puerto Ricans had so much to do with the music, but when people think Mambo, they just think Cubans.
killuminati43 1 year ago
well they are SO wrong ...
& biased ..
proof is in the puddin' @killuminati43
bebop54 1 year ago
people associate mambo with pre-castro cuba that's why ... @killuminati43
bebop54 1 year ago
the greatest vocalists without a doubt come from PR ...
NOBODY can touch santos colon , ismael rivera , ismael miranda , pete rodriquez , daniel santos et al ...hector ...so very many greats !@killuminati43
bebop54 1 year ago 2
I just saw the Latin Music USA series, they were pretty spectacular
Geezyone 2 years ago
yes funny guy this "sexyasianangel"
welinus 2 years ago
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sexyasianangel 3 years ago
You are his son and your name is ''Sexyasianangel''??
HAHAHAHA nice try.
Delvontehmage 3 years ago
WOW! Really talented man!
ISLANDOFSUN 3 years ago
RIP Cuban Pete.
fuzmiq 3 years ago 5
A Tribute to a Great Dancer...a very good dancer and I could never be a fraction of as good a dancer...actually can't dance at all...so always lucky to watch and enjoy anyone who can dance so well...he is a "Master"...so God Bless Cuban Pete...and my condolences to his family and friends.
Mrsupole 3 years ago 5