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Musica Y Los Bailes: Posters Analysis
Samantha Camacho October 7, 2008
Major Spanish Project: Column B Ms. Sanchez

I have broken up the 10 personalities in 2 groups with 2 posters. One group on one poster is “Musica y Los Bailes.” In that group, I put 5 of the 10 personalities I have to choose for my project. The 5 personalities I chose for this group are Reggaeton, Bachata, Aventura, Celia Cruz, and Fulanito. I love music so that’s why I wanted to make a separate poster for it. The other group on the other poster is “Hispanics.” On this poster I have my other 5 personalities from the 10. I chose Dolores Huerta, Melquiades Martinez, Eva Mendes, Selena, and Sammy Sosa. Here are my 10 paragraphs for my 10 personalities. Aventura is a New York based Dominican
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Bachata is a romantic type of music. There are five basic instruments for the typical bachata music which are, lead guitar, rhythm guitar, electric bass guitar, bongo, and guiro. Bachata first began to be recorded right after Trujillo died. Jose Manuel Calderon is said to be the first to record bachata singles in 1961. The 1960s was the year the Dominican music industry was born; bachata music was of course going to dominate it. The 1970’s were some bad years for bachata. Bachata wasn’t played much on the radio and not even mentioned on the TV or in print. Most people didn’t accept bachata and said it was the music of the ignorant. By the 1980’s, bachata became extremely popular. Radio stations played bachata and bachata musicians appeared on TV performing there music. Blas Duran was the first man to record with the electric guitar in 1987. In the 1990’s Luis Vargas and Anthony Santos dominated bachata. They were the first generation of pop bachata artists. They received a lot of fame and are responsible for bachata growing internationally. The Dominican group Aventura brought bachata to New York and has made it known in many other countries as well. Today, bachata is even more popular than salsa and merengue in Latin American …show more content…
He is married and has 3 children and a granddaughter. He came to the U.S. in 1962 because of a Roman Catholic humanitarian effort called Operation Peter Pan. This operation brought more than 14,000 children to the U.S. Martinez had to stay at 2 different foster family homes. In 1966 he was put back to live with his family in Orlando, Florida. Martinez went to the College of Law at Florida State University in 1973. Melquiades was a very involved person. He took part in many civic organizations. He served as vice of the Board of Catholic Charities for the Orlando Diocese, elected Chairman of Orange Country, Florida, served on the Governor’s Growth Management Study Commission, served as president of the Orlando Utilities Commission, served on the board of directors of a community bank, and as Chairman of the Orlando Housing Authority. Melquiades also served as co-chairman of George Bush’s 2000 presidential election campaign in Florida. He was the leading fundraiser and one of the electors who voted for George Bush in the 2000 election. Melquiades Martinez hasn’t stopped his work

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