Fania Records is a New York–based record label founded by Dominican-born composer and bandleader Johnny Pacheco and his American lawyer Jerry Masucci in 1964. The label took its name from a popular luncheonette frequented by musicians in Havana, Cuba that Masucci frequented when he worked for a public relations firm there during the pre-Castro era. Fania is known for its promotion of salsa music.
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Artists on Fania Records
Manu Dibango
1933–2020 · Cameroonian musician and songwriter, recording artist…
Willie Colón
1950–2026 · American musician
Billy Cobham
b. 1944 · Panamanian jazz drummer and composer (born 1944)
Mongo Santamaría
1922–2003 · Cuban musician (1917–2003)
Eddie Palmieri
1936–2025 · American musician
Ray Barretto
1929–2006 · American percussionist and bandleader of Puerto Rican…
Fania All-Stars
1968– · American band formed in 1968 as a showcase for the…
Larry Harlow
1939–2021 · American musician (1939–2021)
Yomo Toro
1933–2012 · Puerto Rican musician (1933-2012)
Label profile
US label
Label Code: LC 1222 / LC 01222
First known as Fania Records later label changed to just Fania. Please use always Fania Records for label.
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Label created in late 1963 by and that became known as the Motown of Latin music.
At one time (pre-2005) the nearly 3,000 title catalog was readily available on CD. Since then, only a few hundred titles have seen the light of day due to changing ownership of the rights to the catalog and other complications.
In 2005, Fania Records was acquired by Miami-based Emusica from the Masucci family. In 2009 purchased the label from eMusica. Both times a program was started to reissue the catalog on CD but the first attempt stalled when the ownership moved from Emusica to . Sometime in 2011/12 the reissue attempts of started to go out-of-print and became yet again unavailable as 's distribution was changing hand to a company called Red.
On July 27, 2018, the label was sold to Concord Music.
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