レイ・バレット (Ray Barretto)

Ray Barretto
Ray Barretto a.k.a. King of the Hard Hands (April 29, 1929 – February 17, 2006) born in New York City, was a Puerto Rican jazz musician, widely credited as the godfather of Latin jazz. He was also the first Hispanic to record a Latin song which became a "hit" in the American Billboard Charts.

Barretto's parents moved to New York from Puerto Rico in the early 1920s, looking for a better life. The family last name is "Barreto"; a mistake at the time Ray's birth certificate was filed gave his last name its formal spelling. He was raised in Spanish Harlem and at a very young age was influenced by his mother's love of music and by the jazz music of musicians such as Duke Ellington and Count Basie.
(Wikipedia: Ray Barretto)