Tito Puente was honored with a heart-warming Google Doodle celebrating his life and contributions to Latin jazz, salsa, mambo, and more.
Puente did it all: He was a percussionist, a bandleader, a songwriter, and a producer responsible for some of the most renowned mambo, Latin jazz, and salsa classics in music history. Today, fans get to celebrate his life achievements with a heart-warming Google Doodle that shows off and animates his iconic career.Illustrated by Carlos Aponte and timed with Hispanic Heritage Month, the Doodle shows Puente as a kid in Spanish Harlem, where he was born in 1923.
In his early teens, he began drumming professionally and played with the influential Afro-Cuban jazz legend Machito. The animation goes on to show Puente’s time serving in the Navy during World War II, where he played marimba, alto saxophone, and 13 other instruments while serving as his ship’s bandleader. He attended the Juilliard School of Music on the G.I.
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