| | Gale - Free Resources - Hispanic Heritage - Biographies - Tito Puente (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | While Puente is perhaps best known for his all-time best-selling 1958 mambo album Dance Mania, his eclectic sound has continued to transcend cultural and generational boundaries. |
 | | You gotta know about jazz to play these things." Two more Grammy awards during the decade — and a fourth in 1990 — confirmed that Puente was still at the top of his performance. |
 | | He was awarded an honorary degree at Columbia University in 1999, and the Latin Grammy for Best Traditional Tropical Performance for "Mambo Birdland" in 2000. |
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