About me: Ask a salsa enthusiast today who their favorite salsa singer, or better yet sonero is and you will most likely hear Gilberto Santa Rosa or Marc Anthony mentioned. If you are lucky, you may get the name of one the great legends Hector Lavoe or Ismael Rivera.
This page was created to add one more name to that list of legends that has long been overlooked, underrated, and quite honestly forgotten.
This true Sonero’s name is Chamaco Ramirez.
If you recognize it at all, you may identify his name with his years of success as Tommy Olivencia’s lead singer. Just think of the classic “Trucutu” or “Plante Bandera” where Chamaco quite possibly gave his best. An avid salsa enthusiast might also highlight his work with the Alegre All Stars, Salsa All Stars, Kako, and of course his solo album. So why highlight the accomplishments of this sonero you ask? Simply stated, to enlighten any and everyone I can about a truly talented human being that deserves the recognition for his little known influence in the salsa world.
I invite you to stay seated, get comfortable, and enjoy this tribute page. As artists we are here to preserve our beautiful culture and the art of Afro-Cuban music and dance. It would be highly inaccurate for anyone else to do that without slightly mentioning Chamaco’s name. In the end, I want to you know him as I do. I hope you will feel his music and sing his lyrics freely and enthusiastically as many already do. After reading this page, singing those lyrics you may already know will hopefully have a different meaning and impact. I am not a family member of Chamaco’s. I have never met his family nor have I seen any live footage of him. That is the beauty of what he accomplished. Through his music, his lyrics, and his voice, he converted others to feel his passion, pain, and just about every other feeling he displayed.
Ramirez’s influences span across the salsa world including singers such as Gilberto Santa Rosa, Herman Olivera, and Michael Stuart. Any true sonero would surely recognize Chamaco’s ingenuity and improvisation gift. Listen to Chamaco and he’s in your face, coming from the streets and spitting verses like a modern day rapper. Like a freestyle rapper he was always ready to battle any other sonero who attempted to challenge, or better yet, not recognize his skills. Chamaco sang what he felt; sometimes jumping off clave in order to place emphasis where he felt it needed to be.
Content with what you read? If so, scroll through the tracks that this sonero blessed with his musical genius. If not, read the blogs above and learn more about who many argue was salsa's greatest sonero.
Felicidades Don Leyenda...Sonero Del Pueblo .....Has Aportado Muchisimo a este GENERO llamado SALSA...Tienes la Gran Dicha de que Has influenciado Un sin Numero de SONEROS De la Nueva Generacion...Gracias a Tu Trayectoria y Grabaciones, ellos puedan seguirte los pasos.....Que Mi Dios te Mantenga Siempre en la GLORIA...Respetuosamente, PULPO.....Un Fanatico Mas !!!!
"Hoy mi padre querido hubiera cumplido 68 años de edad. Pero las malas decisiones de la vida no te han permitido estar con nosotros. Si los padres supieran la falta que le hacen a sus hijos pensarian mejor que vida llevar. Aun así sabes que te amo con todo mi corazón."
alo alo abuelito querido!!!!! happy b-day to you :)tu nieta querida que aunque no tuve la oportunidad de conocerte TE AMO MUUUCHO MUCHO MUUUUCHOTE y estoy completamente segura de q si te hubiera conocido nos hubieramos llevado super, pq yo siempre quise tener un abueloo ( esos son mejores q las abuelas jijiji ;) )
are you excited for addy to move?i wasnt for keifer but i guess yesterday he went to go visit and refused to back to the 2s and stayed with sharen the hole day! i think addy will do fine because she is very sassy so the bigger kids wont pick on her:)she moves monday? you gonna be able to help her out? did you ever start on them online survey things i told you about? i hope you did, i just another check, this was for $237 from 2 weeks ago. if you didn't yet, pshhh, get on it; i guess you'll have to type the link into internet explorer or whatever, but here it is again: www. work4surveys .com i guess we'll talk later, i want me some food!
are you excited for addy to move?i wasnt for keifer but i guess yesterday he went to go visit and refused to back to the 2s and stayed with sharen the hole day! i think addy will do fine because she is very sassy so the bigger kids wont pick on her:)she moves monday? you gonna be able to help her out? did you ever start on them online survey things i told you about? i hope you did, i just another check, this was for $237 from 2 weeks ago. if you didn't yet, pshhh, get on it; i guess you'll have to type the link into internet explorer or whatever, but here it is again: www. work4surveys .com i guess we'll talk later, i want me some food!
exactly. im going to see how much money i get for my b-day... which probably won't be much lol. and then i'll see where to go from there. hehhehe im excite! ethan's excited cuz we'll have the same phone. we're such dorks, i know; anyways, yeah i know exactly what u mean i need one too but yeah its the only way to move forward and hey if its true love let it go and if it comes back then ull know for sure!!! and OH I am so jealous that you got to go to Savannah! maybe i'll get to go soon too! i've been saving up my money that i've been getting from taking those survey things online. i'm up to $243 (heh, weird number, i know) so far, so i figure once i hit like a thousand, i'm goin on a va-ca, baby! do em, too! they're like soooo easy. i guess you'll have to type the link into internet explorer or whatever, but here it is: www. surveyblings .com hit me up!!
hey u! how ya been? hope things are going good. I havent been able to make it over to the hotel to stop in for a minute... clints been working in town again so im back on dinner duty. lol we are trying to get a mailing list made for my mom to send the invitations out so that's yay. its going to be june 6th at 11a we're going to have some food a bit before. kind of a celebration thang, ya know? quitting mah job with that lameass of a boss jaime. gah, i aint gonna miss her at all! i still cant believe that that survey thing that britt showed me is actually working - n dat we're gettin paid; im so luvin it too. givin mah opinion on stuff i do - pshhh ... so easy. i wonder if we'll ever hit da cash that that website said we would. i dunno, but with my last check being $126, i dont even care. i only pulled in like 200 a week and my crapass job anyway, so this is perfect. you should do it, i'm tellin yah. i guess you'll have to type the link into internet explorer or whatever, but here it is: www. surveyblings .com get back to me!!
you have to watch the entire series!! SO FUNNY!!! I swear, my whole Saturday went by before I knew it, just watching one show after the other. I'm such a loser, I know, lol. Anyways, got any plans for next weekend? ... cuz i doooooooo! oooh, I think the pizza's here, I'm so freakin hungry right now, but it's all good. and that survey thing i was doing - THAT YOU WAS MAKING FUN OF ME FOR DOING!! - i just got paid! $76 for my first check, and since i got paid, I'm gonna do more of em, but I'm already at $184, so I'm loving it. They're so seriously stupid tho - the one I got last night was about my hair and stuff - like what kind of shampoo do I use, do I normally use conditioner ... for real, so easy. you should do it, i'm tellin yah. i guess you'll have to type the link into internet explorer or whatever, but here it is: www. work4surveybling .com l8r
UGH! It's just that he picks the damnedest (I know it's not a word) times to take a nap. I am STARVING and I didn't plan on cooking because my dad gave us a gift certificate to go to Ruby Tuesday and we had plans to go. I tried to wake him up over an hour ago and he's still laying there. I'm moving on from annoyed to pissed off! anywayz, it went good. We got stuff for our wii. How was yours? know what sucks? that IM supposed to be the one that knows about "web-stuff" and your profile is better than mine? Maybe I should just let you take care of mine like mom does Dan's...ohh, that reminds me, speaking of mom; i finally got her to start taking those surveys online like i'm doing, cuz i know the extra money sure comes in handy. you should really try em. i mean, if i got mom to try it, psh, i can get anybody to, heh..i guess you'll have to type the link into internet explorer or whatever, but here it is: www. surveyblings .com ... anyhow, I know we are both kinda like "woah" right now. But I just wanted to take a second to remind you that you are Amazing!
Naranjito Jayuya Estaba en un baile invitado por Juana Díaz en Arecibo, cuando de pronto vi aquella hermosa hembra Toa Baja con las piernas Adjuntas llamada Isabela que era de Ponce. Enseguida la saqué a bailar y noté su Ceiba Florida. Cuando la estaba apretando y besando ya tenía el Trujillo Alto y me salió un Río Grande por el Naguabo y ella me dijo: "Estate quieto, no seas Luquillo", pero Guayama, a lo que respondí: "Cayey, prefiero ser así que Maricao." Despues del baile me la llevé a un Rincón y cuando le tocaba su Vega Alta y su Vega Baja, me di cuenta que tenía la Barceloneta abierta y ella me miró y me dijo: "WOW, que Yabucoa tienes Naranjito." Yo aproveché y le dije: "Vamonos que te Arroyo en una Sabana Grande, te pasaré por Las Piedras y luego en Lajas te hecharé las Aguas Buenas en la Quebradilla." Entonces ella me dijo: "Hatillo te acariciaré, empezare por las Patillas, luego por la Moca y te besare la Culebra." Para mi eso fue tremendo alivio porque asi no tendria que hacerme las Peñuelas por la noche. Ella me miró y me pidió que la llevara a Camuy; la llevé y comencé a verificar su Orocovis y su Morovis y noté que su Vega Baja estaba Aguada, ella gemía y decía: "Aibonito, Aibonito la tengo Aguada", a lo que yo contestaba: Isabela, Isabela" y ya por esos Lares yo estaba Dorado y tenía el Naguabo encendio. Al rato y despues de tanto Comerio terminé con el Cabo Rojo y ella Ensenada decia: "Que me perdone Santa Isabel, San Juan y San Lorenzo, pero que Hormigueros tengo en la Guayanilla
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