Fania Records è un'etichetta discografica statunitense, promotrice della cosiddetta "Salsa revoluccion". Fondata dal musicista domenicano Johnny Pacheco e dall'italoamericano Jerry Masucci, con l'intenzione di gestire e promuovere il grande sottobosco di solisti, compositori e orchestre che animavano la comunità caraibica di New York alla fine degli anni sessanta. Questa etichetta ha il merito di aver definito il suono, la cultura e il linguaggio del genere e di aver scoperto grandi voci e importanti musicisti. Tra i musicisti prodotti dell'etichetta si annoverano Tito Puente, Ray Barretto, Celia Cruz, il percussionista Mongo Santamaría, il supergruppo conosciuto come Fania All Stars e Héctor Lavoe.
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Artisti di Fania Records
Profilo dell'etichetta
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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