Shimmering in the Anacostia Community Museum's collection are the ruffled sleeves of Washington, DC’s “Original Mambo King,” Roland Kavé. The musician and dance instructor introduced mambo to his ...
In the mid-1950s, the backdrop for Dance Mania, Tito Puente ruled his domain from the Palladium Ballroom on Broadway and 53rd Street. There his band shared the stage with the great bands led by ...
To date, the Latin dance album that holds the record for sales remains Tito Puente's Dance Mania. Recorded in November and December of 1957 and released in early 1958, Dance Mania was the first ...