Gilberto Santa Rosa

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=120 BGCOLOR="#FFCCFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0443f781egdyul.gif"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#009900" FACE="Arial" ><B>Musica Salsa - Real Salsa and Latin Music</B></FONT> <B> </B><B>|    </B><B> </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Musica Salsa Real Salsa and Latin Music"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Salsa Discography"><U>Salsa Discography</U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=190 BGCOLOR="#CCFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <IMG SRC="077a5a50.jpg" border=0 width="165" height="165" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=360 BGCOLOR="#CCFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> Gilberto Santa Rosa</div> <bR> <div> <B>Biography</B></div> <div> b. 21 August 1950, Puerto Rico. Since the mid-80s, the mainstream salsa recording industry in Puerto Rico and the USA has been largely preoccupied with developing and marketing the images of 'good looking' young male vocalists, rather than producing solid, stimulating music performed by swinging soneros (improvising salsa singers). Santa Rosa, however, who was one of the first of this new crop of solo singers, is regarded as being amongst the small number who deserve to be called a sonero. His apprenticeship included stints with top Puerto Rican bandleaders, Tommy Olivencia and Willie Rosario, before he signed with Ralph Cartagena's Combo Records. In 1986, Santa Rosa debuted on Good Vibrations fronting his own salsa orquesta of two trumpets, two trombones, baritone saxophone, rhythm section (conga, bongo, timbales, bass, piano) and coro (chorus). After releasing three more albums on Combo, he switched to CBS Records and issued the chart-topping salsa romentica set Punto De Vista in 1990, which spawned the smash hits 'Vivir Sin Ella' and 'Perdoname'. Gilberto's 1991 CBS/Sony follow-up, Perspectiva, was another monster hit. In 1990, Santa Rosa was in the illustrious company of Andy Montanez and Pedro Brull (from Mulenze ), as one of the contemporary soneros assembled by bandleader Don Perignon for his all-star La Puertorriquena project. Between 1984 and 90, Gilberto acted as artistic assistant and sang coro on albums by Puerto Rican bandleader Mario Ortiz. In 1990, he won the Billboard Lo Nuestro award for 'Best Male Singer'. He has also performed at New York's prestigious annual salsa festival.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Discography</B></div> <div> Intenso </div> <div> Romantico </div> <div> Oro Salsero </div> <div> Perdoname: Exitos </div> <div> 20th Anniversary </div> <div> Expresion </div> <div> Salsa Sinfonica - En Vivo </div> <div> De Corazon... </div> <div> Antologia Tropical </div> <div> Esencia </div> <div> Un Poco De Mi </div> <div> En Vivo Desde El Carnegie Hall </div> <div> De Cara Al Viento </div> <div> Nace Aqui </div> <div> A Dos Tiempos De Un Tiempo </div> <div> De Amor Y Salsa </div> <div> Perspectiva </div> <div> Punto De Vista </div> <div> Caballero De La Salsa Vol. 1 </div> <div> Caballero De La Salsa Vol. 2 </div> <div> Con Las Orquestas De Willie Rosario Y Tommy Olivencia </div> <bR> <div> <B>Comments</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>