Pete Rodriguez (boogaloo musician)

Pete Rodriguez, legendary boogaloo musician, rehearses before a recent gig at Hostos Community College in Bronx, NY.

Pete Rodriguez was born in Bronx, New York in 1932. He was the leader and pianist of a Puerto Rican Boogaloo band from The Bronx in the mid-1960s, sometimes known as Pete Rodríguez y Su Conjunto.^[2]

The band's most successful song, "I Like It Like That", made it to the national Billboard charts and has since been covered several times including by the Blackout All-Stars.^[3] It was re-recorded by lead singer and composer Tony Pabón for the soundtrack of the 1994 movie I Like It Like That and received renewed exposure as the soundtrack to the main ident at Odeon Cinemas from 1998–2003.^[4]

Discography

• At Last! (1964)
• The King of The Boogaloo (1965)
• Ese Pete Si Está En Algo…! (1966)
• I Like It Like That (A Mi Me Gusta Así) (1966)
• Latin Boogaloo (1966)
• Christmas Boogaloo (Boogaloo Navideño) (1967)
• Oh, That's Nice! (Ay, Qué Bueno!) (1967)
• Hot & Wild (Yo Vengo Soltando Chispas) (1968)
• Latin Soul Man (1969)
• Now! (1970)
• Right On! (¡Ahí Na' Ma'!) (1971)
• El Rey del Boogaloo! (2003)^[5]

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