San Juan, 5 ago (EFE).San Juan, 5 ago (EFE). — El compositor puertorriqueño Tite Curet Alonso cumple hoy 10 años de fallecido, y en este tiempo varios artistas han regrabado algunas de sus ...

Catalino “Tite” Curet Alonso, one of Puerto Rico’s most prolific songwriters who penned a series of hits for the top stars of salsa’s golden era in the 1970s, has died. He was 77.

Tite Curet Alonso has no peer in Latin music when it comes to the sheer volume of songs composed which have gone on to become mainstays in the genre. He covered all the styles from salsa, boleros, ...

The scene evoked singer Ismael Rivera’s or bandleader Rafael Cortijo’s trips to the afterlife in decades past, and for Catalino Curet Alonso, they could do no less. The man known as Tite Curet ...

But in the recording studio the biggest names in salsa. From Willie Coln and Hector Lavoe to Celia Cruz and La Lupe, all deferred to Catalino Curet Alonso, the man — known to all as Tite (pronounced ...

Catalino “Tite” Curet Alonso, prolific songwriter who penned top salsa hits, died July 5 in Baltimore. He was 77 and had suffered a series of strokes and heart attacks. Some of his more than ...

Once you’ve listened to his songs, Tite Curet Alonso is hard to forget. His compositions helped coin the phrase “salsa with a conscience.” He wrote about the poor, the outcast and the ...