Person
Ray Barretto
Acting · 1929–2006 · New York City, New York, USA
Biography
Ray Barretto was an American percussionist and bandleader of Puerto Rican ancestry. Throughout his career as a percussionist, he played a wide variety of Latin music styles, as well as Latin jazz.
Known for
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Self - Performer (archive footage)
Pogreso
Music
Salsa
1976
A Walking Tour of Sesame Street
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Las caras lindas de Tite Curet
Self (Archive Footage)
Money
Chandra
From Mambo to Hip Hop
2007
Our Latin Thing (Nuestra Cosa)
Self
Nueva York: A Musical History of Latin New York
Self (archive footage)
Beats of the Heart: Salsa
Self
Filmography
- 2021Nueva York: A Musical History of Latin New YorkSelf (archive footage)
- 2021Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)Self - Performer (archive footage)
- 2007From Mambo to Hip Hop
- 2006Legends of Jazz con Ramsey Lewis Volume 3Self - Percussionista
- 2005PogresoMusic
- 2002Las caras lindas de Tite CuretSelf (Archive Footage)
- 1991MoneyChandra
- 1979A Walking Tour of Sesame StreetSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1979Beats of the Heart: SalsaSelf
- 1976Salsa
- 1972Our Latin Thing (Nuestra Cosa)Self
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