◇ image via WikipediaDaniel Santos
Daniel Santos is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of La Sonora Matancera. Those roots explain a lot about how Daniel Santos arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Bienvenido Granda, Alci Acosta, Julio Jaramillo, Javier Solís and Los Panchos, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Julio Jaramillo and Héctor Lavoe, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 11 connections around Daniel Santos, reaching back through La Sonora Matancera and forward to Julio Jaramillo. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Daniel Santos was a Puerto Rican singer and composer of boleros, and an overall performer of multiple Caribbean music genres, including guaracha, plena and rumba. Over the course of his career he adopted several names created by the public and became known as "El Jefe" and "El Inquieto Anacobero".
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Daniel Santos connections
Daniel Santos grew out of La Sonora Matancera, shares an orbit with Bienvenido Granda, Alci Acosta, Julio Jaramillo and Javier Solís, went on to shape Julio Jaramillo and Héctor Lavoe. 11 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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