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  • Jesús Sánchez Erazo “Chuíto el de Bayamón,” also known as “el decano de los cantores” (the dean of the singers), was born in Bayamón, Puerto Rico in 1900.
  • Jesús Sánchez Erazo, better known as "Chuito the Bayamón", was born in 1900 and died in 1979 in Bayamón.
  • Jesús Sánchez Erazo, better known as Chuito el de Bayamón, was a celebrated Puerto Rican singer and composer, renowned for his contributions to the genre of.

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    Jesús Sánchez Erazo “Chuíto el de Bayamón,” also known as “el decano de los cantores” (the dean of the singers), was born in Bayamón, Puerto Rico in 1900. His mother, Aurora Erazo, died during childbirth, and his father, Ricardo Sánchez, passed away nine years later (Rodríguez León 1979: 56) (1). According to The Cuatro Project, he began working as a wagon driver learning to sing “cadenas” at a young age (2). Of humble origins, Chuíto also worked in the sugarcane fields, in sugar mill facilities and cigar factories thus enduring the exploitation common to the Puerto Rican peasantry (Rodríguez León 1979: 56). Chuíto’s calling for music, however, was always there: he wrote his first song at age twelve (Rodríguez León 1979: 57).

    According to The Cuatro Project, he recorded popular music with Ralph Sánchez’s orchestra in 1926; though Chuíto alleged to have been the first jíbaro to sing on the radio, trovador Chuíto el de Cayey may have actually achieved this feat before him (3). In the 1940s, he

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    ¿Conoces este disco de papi con Johnny Rodríguez y su trío?: Ansonia Records and Puerto Rico [Part I]

    Editor’s Note: The following essay belongs to a series exploring the history of Ansonia Records, an independent, family-run music label which was founded in New York City in 1949. The Ansonia catalogue, recently digitized, boasts an impressive and influential collection of Puerto Rican jibaro music, Dominican merengue, and other folk and popular music genres from throughout Latin America. Further research will no doubt uncover the role Pérez and the Ansonia label played in the development of Latin music within the recording industry. See below for the full series:

    ¿Conoces este disco de papi con Johnny Rodríguez y su trío?: Ansonia Records and Puerto Rico [Part II] by Dr. Mario Cancel-Bigay

    Ansonia Records and Dominican Merengue’s Place in Latin Music History by Jhensen Ortiz

    The Latin Music Legacy of Ralph Pérez and Ansonia Records by Néstor David Pastor

    Author’s Note: With much gratitude to my mentor Kevin Fellezs, Souraya Al-Alaoui, Jhensen Ortiz and Néstor David Pastor for the many exchanges of ideas, my wife Edline Jacquet for her support and kind feedback, and Millito’s family for their love.

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