The La Sonora Ponceña orchestra returns to New York after the stoppage due to the pandemic with its unmistakable sound and the successes accumulated in its almost seven decades on stage to perform this Saturday at the Lehman Center for the Performing Arts in the Bronx.
La Sonora Ponceña is one of the favorites of the public that, through the years, has danced to songs like “Hacheros pa’ un palo”, which gave the title to her first album in 1968 and her first success, under the direction of its pianist and founder Enrique “Quique” Lucca. Songs such as “Yambeque”, “Canto al amor”, “Boranda”, “Moreno soy”, “Fuego en el 23” and “Hasta que se roto el piel” are also hymns of the group, which have practically become mandatory. at their concerts.
For this occasion, the Puerto Rican band, and one of the most important in the salsa genre, directed by Papo Lucca, formerly of the Fania Stars along with Larry Harlow (1939-2021), will have as its guest Yolanda Rivera, the the only woman who has been part of La Sonora Ponceña, with whom she recorded eight albums, after having been with other groups.
After a break in his career, between 1984 and 1986, Rivera recorded another album with the orchestra.
Rivera, “the lady of salsa” and a pioneer in that genre, will thus meet with Sonora on the Lehman stage where they performed together for the last time in 2019, and received several standing ovations, to perform songs that the dancing public will enjoy as “Now yes” or “Until the leather breaks”.
They will also share the stage with Cuban Mario “Mayito” Rivera, “the poet of the rumba”, who was the main vocalist of Los Van Van, a band with which he spent 20 years.
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