Driving through Yabucoa
Yabucoa, Puerto Rico. Strikers near the sugar mill. Jan. 1942. Photographer: Jack Delano
PEPITO LOPEZ Y FAUSTO DELGADO Ingrata
Fausto Delgado was one of Puerto Rico's favorite singers in the 1930's. Jose "Pepito" Lopez enjoyed an illustrious career, singing and playing trumpet in some of the most successful Latin bands of the '30s like Rafael de la O, Nano Rodrigo, and Juanito Sanabria. He recorded with various bands on many of the earliest records on the Decca, Brunswick, and Columbia labels. In addition, he played in the most exclusive night clubs of that era like El Morocco and Sherman Billingsly's Stork Club Puerto Rico's "Big Band Era" included the music of Rafael Muñoz, Orquesta Siboney, Orquesta de Carmelo Díaz Soler, Orquesta de Armando Castro, Orquesta de César Concepción, Orquesta de Mario Dumont, Orquesta de Frank Madera, Orquesta de Miguelito Miranda, Orquesta Panamericana, Mingo and his Whoppee Kids, and several others. Each of them had their own arrangers, in addition to charts bought from independent writers.
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