Bobby Valentin br Musician, Arranger, Composer, Producer and Director br br FULL NAME: Roberto Valentín Fred br BIRTHDATE: June 9, 1941 br BIRTHPLACE: Orocovis, Puerto Rico br br In the international salsa scene, Bobby Valentine is a key name. Because, when the sauce experienced its overwhelming stage, and he enjoyed solid cartel as an exponent of this music and sisters that preceded modalities: pachanga, boogaloo and Latin soul, particularly. As an instrumentalist, he was always considered first-line and as orchestrator, imposed a new style splashing traditional Cuban rhythms (son, guaguancó, guaracha, mambo and rumba) with jazz overtones. br br This great musician is the son of Albertano Valentin (1981 m.) And Carmen Fred (d. 1947). He has six brothers. His childhood and much of his adolescence were spent in Coamo, why is identified as coameño. His father was instilled cuatrista and musical vocation. At the age of seven he began learning guitar self-taught way. Between thirteen and fifteen, he was part of a trio that completed two fellow high school. For that time (1954-1955) he studied trumpet and music theory at the Academy of Music Jose Ignacio Quinton, where he was a pupil of Juan Suarez Cruz. br br In 1955, Bobby moved to New York with the intention to expand his musical knowledge, because in Puerto Rico Conservatory did not exist. During his early days in the big city he was trained as a trumpeter and musical reading tutors. He sought their livelihood playing sporadically with little sign formations and playing music outside work. In 1958, I become very competent performer, he found accommodation in the Joint Cachana Joe Quijano. br His internship was extended by that group one year, after which he went to Charlie Palmieri Orchestra, where he remained until 1960. Thereafter, he was part of those headed by Vicentico Valdes (1960-1961); Willie Rosario - where he began as a trumpeter, after debuting as bass - (1961-1963) and Tito Rodriguez (1963-1964). It should be noted that the latter organization became a performer trumpet and valve trombone. But he finding tour in Venezuela, he had to replace the bassist, who had fallen ill. And little later (1964), with Tito, recorded as bass performer for the first time. After he joined the Charanga Moderna Ray Barretto (1964-1965). Valga highlight the fact that our biography learned to play this instrument of self-taught way. br br In 1965 he founded his first orchestra, which played the trumpet. Marcelino Morales Jr. was the original vocalist. Called "matte salseros" remember that, among its original members included the drummer Joey Pastrana and his brother David (conga), who after participating in the group's debut album-emerging, "The messenger", edited by Fonseca Records label, they broke away to form the successful band that would be identified with the name of the first. Luckily for him, Bobby Valentine managed to win the preference of the dancers immediately. Over the next four years he toured all the ballrooms of New York's Square and surrounding cities. In parallel, he developed an intense activity as a session, participating in recordings of other orchestras. Also, he was one of the first artists to be recruited by Johnny Pacheco and Jerry Masucci for the cast of the newly created Fania Records - "Young Man With With a Horn" (LP-332) was the first production recorded under this label - and naturally, he was part of the original template that would globally acclaimed group Fania All Stars (1967).