LOS HERMANOS COLÓN HAVE BECOME A SENSATION IN THE SALSA WORLD,THE GROUP IS COMPOSED OF THREE BROTHERS MARCOS,HERMAN AND FREDDY COLÓN,MARCOS WAS BORN IN PUERTO RICO,HERMAN & FREDDY WERE BORN IN NEW YORK.THE BROTHERS COLON GREW UP IN*EL BARRIO*SURROUNDED BY MUSICAL INFLUENCES FROM AN EARLY AGE,THEIR FATHER WAS A LEADER OF A POPULAR SALSA BAND CALLED *LA SONORA CASINO 77* AND THEIR MOTHER A NOTED JIBARO SINGER,THE CLOSENESS OF THIS FAMILY OF MUSICIANS IS REFLECTED IN THEIR WARMTH AND SINCERITY GENERATED THROUGH THEIR MUSIC.
HERMAN COLÓN AND HIS SEXTET BEGAN PERFORMING IN THE 1970'S INFLUENCED BY SUCH POPULAR LATIN MUSIC ARTISTS:WILLY COLÓN,JOE CUBA,HARVY AVERNE AND JOE BATAN. PERCUSSIONIST HERMAN WAS THEN JOINED BY HIS BROTHER BONGOSERO FREDDY COLÓN AND THE SEXTET CONTINUED TO PLAY FOR ANOTHER 6 YEARS & LATER IT BECAME *LA CONSTITUCION*
BEFORE MARCOS JOINED HIS BROTHERS HE WAS PART OF A DYNAMIC DUO CALLED *CASSIDY*THIS DUO PERFORMED IN NIGHT CLUBS SUCH AS**THE OTHER END*THE BITTER END*&*HOME* IN ADDITION MARCOS HAS MODELED PROFESSIONALLY FOR EBONY MAN MAGAZINE & HAS DONE TELEVISION COMMERCIALS WITH CHRISTIE BRINKLEY & BEVERLY JOHNSON FOR ISOTONER GLOVES.
DURING THE 80'S THE BAND ENJOYED POPULARITY IN LOCAL NY NIGHT CLUBS AND PUERTO RICAN VENUES AS WELL AS PROVIDING BACK-UP TO ISLAND SINGERS SUCH AS TITO ROJAS,PAQUITO GUZMAN AND MILAGROS*LA LOBA*HERNANDEZ.
NOW KNOWN AS LOS HERMANOS COLÓN THE 90'S BROUGHT THEIR FIRST PRODUCTION *AMAME UN POCO MAS*ON THE MAMBOLERO LABEL PRODUCED BY SERGIO GEORGE,THE TITTLE SONG AND OTHER ORIGINAL NUMBERS SUCH AS*DE DOCE A TRES* RECEIVED TREMENDOUS AIR PLAY AND NIGHT CLUBS RECOGNITION.
THEIR SECOND PRODUCTION WAS*NATURAL*THIS RECORDING CONTAINS BOTH ENGLISH AND SPANISH LYRICS WITH PRODUCTION AND ARRANGEMENT BY RENE LEYVA & SERGIO GEORGE THE ALBUM EARNED THE BROTHERS INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION WITH THE SONGS *TODA MIA* &*CON QUE DERECHO*
THEIR THIRD PRODUCTION*LOS HOMBRES NO DEBEN LLORAR*FOR J&N RECORDS/SONY DIST WITH SONGS LIKE *LA MEDIA VUELTA* WITH A MEXICAN FLAVOR TO IT & THE SONG “YO SOY BORICUA” FEATURING THE PUERTORICAN FOLKLORE EARNED THE BROTHERS POPULARITY AMONG THEIR OWN CULTURE & THE DIFFERENT LATIN AMERICAN CULTURES IN NEW YORK.
THEIR FOURTH PRODUCTION*ABRIENDO NUEVOS CAMINOS*WAS THEIR FIRST PRODUCTION UNDER LHC RECORDS INC.WITH SONGS LIKE*YO SOY LATINO*THE BROTHERS WON THE HEARTS OF THE LATIN AMERICAN PUBLIC.
FOR THEIR FIFTH PRODUCTION THE BROTHERS REUNITED A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT COMPOSERS OF BOTH ANGLO AND HISPANIC HERRITAGE TO CREATE THEIR MASTERPIECE *ENGLISH/SALSA GREATEST HITS* WITH SONGS LIKE *THROUGH THE YEARS*&*MAMA* A BEAUTIFUL SONG WRITTEN BY MARCOS COLÓN AND DEDICATED BY THE BROTHERS TO THEIR LATE MOTHER JUANITA VAZQUEZ .
& THEIR SIXTH PRODUCCION JUST RELEASED *LO MEJOR DE LA SALSA DE LOS HERMANOS COLON* WITH THE HIT SONG *SABRE OLVIDAR* WRITTEN BY THE BOOGALOO LEGEND TONY *TNT* ROJAS,WITH THIS NEW PRODUCTION THE BROTHERS PROMISE THEIR PUBLIC NOTHING BUT THEIR VERY BEST!!! A LO COLON ...SABOR COLON!!!
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