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Jimmy Sabater, Latin Soul Vocalist, Has Died
Throughout the 1960s and ’70s, Jimmy Sabater was the “velvet voice” of Latin soul. Sabater died on Wednesday, February 8 in New York City of natural causes, according to his son, Jimmy Sabater, Jr. He was 75 years old, as Oliver Wang reports.
Sabater leaves behind an undersung yet influential catalog. Born in Puerto Rico, he became part of a generation of “Nuyorican” artists who grew up in post-war East Harlem and began his career as a timbelero. However, a chance set of circumstances in the mid-1950s lead Sabater to join forces with another young talent on the rise in New York’s Latin music scene Joe Cuba and Sabater became Cuba’s main English-language vocalist.