Discos Fuentes
| Discos Fuentes | |
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| Founded | 1934 |
| Founder | Antonio Fuentes Estrada |
| Genre | Latin, cumbia, salsa |
| Country of origin | Colombia, South America |
| Location | Medellín, Colombia |
| Official website | Official website |
Discos Fuentes is a record label based in Medellín, Colombia, South America. Founded in 1934 in Cartagena, Colombia, by Antonio Fuentes Estrada, Discos Fuentes was the country's first notable record label.[1][2]
Initially working alongside the radio station La Voz de Laboratorios Fuentes (later Emisora Fuentes), Toño Fuentes, himself a musician who had studied in Philadelphia, United States, sought to establish a record label devoted to exploring regional music and recording technoligies.[3] The label played an instrumental role in introducing Colombian audiences to Afro-influenced genres such as cumbia, fandango, merengue, porro, salsa and rock and roll.[4][5] It also helped launch the early careers of musicians and composers such as Guillermo Buitrago, Rafael Escalona, and Julio César Bovea.
The label's first two recordings were Dos Almas and Deuda, followed by Lucho Bermúdez's Doble Cero, and Clímaco Sarmiento's La vaca vieja.[3]
Discos Fuentes has often been described as Colombia's version of "Motown", peaking in the 1960s and early 1970s.[1] The label achieved a series of firsts for Colombia: the first compilation album (1960) and the first Compact Disc release (1987).[2]
After the death of the label's founder, Antonio Fuentes Estrada, in 1985, the company expanded into video production and purchased several other music labels, including Discos Tropical and Curro.[2]
US distribution
[edit]In the United States, the manufacture and/or distribution of Discos Fuentes releases was eventually handled by Miami Records, a Miami, Florida-based label specializing in Latin American music.[6] Formed in 1950 by Colombian immigrant, Carlos Diaz-Granados, Sr., Miami Records also managed the manufacture and/or distribution of Latin music for other South American labels as well as for such American labels as Columbia Records.[6]
Select artists
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- Afrosound
- Rodolfo Aicardi
- Sonora Cordobesa
- Edmundo Arias
- Guillermo Buitrago
- Joe Arroyo
- Lucho Bermudez
- Ariza y Su Combo
- Lito Barrientos
- Los Bestiales
- Clímaco Sarmiento
- Combo Los Galleros
- El Combo Loco
- Los Corraleros de Majagual
- Rafael Escalona
- Tata Guines
- Fruko y sus Tesos/Fruko El Bueno
- Rufo Garrido
- Alfredo Gutiérrez
- Eliseo Herrera
- Fela Kuti
- Andrés Landero
- The Latin Brothers
- Pedro Laza y sus Pelayeros
- Los Lideres
- Calixto Ochoa
- Los Pico Pico
- Joe Rodríguez y su Grupo Latino
- Julio Bovea
- La Sonora Carruseles
- La Sonora Dinamita
- Los Teen Agers
- Michi Sarmiento y sus Bravos
- Pastor López
- Puerto Rican Power
- Rodolfo y su Tipica RA7
- Wganda Kenya
- Lisandro Meza
- Catalino Tejedor
- Aníbal Velásquez
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Global hit: The Golden Age of Discos Fuentes, 1960–76". The World. June 2007. Retrieved 5 January 2008.
- 1 2 3 "Discos Fuentes Record Label". SalsaArtists.com. Retrieved 5 January 2008.
- 1 2 Wade, Peter (2000). Music, race, & nation: música tropical in Colombia. University of Chicago Press. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-226-86844-8. Archived from the original on April 5, 2014. Retrieved April 19, 2011.
- ↑ K. Leander Williams (March 2007). "Album review: Colombia! The Golden Age of Discos Fuentes, 1960–76". Time Out New York. Retrieved 5 January 2008.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ↑ Vega, Luis Daniel. "Una idea descabellada: instantáneas del rock en Bogotá (1957 - 1975)". bibliotecadigitaldebogota.gov.co (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-04-25.
- 1 2 A brief history of Miami Records. 10 July 1965. Retrieved January 23, 2013.
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