Frankie Ruiz & Tommy Olivencia - Te Estoy Estudiando

  • 9 years ago
Jose Antonio Ruiz Negron was born March 10, 1958 in Paterson, New Jersey. His name was inherited from his grandmother Concepción Ruiz, Dona Concha. According to his brother Viti Ruiz in an interview with mayaguezsabeamango.com , who raised her was, "because my mom had when I was 15, so I kept the name Ruiz because she was younger."
Frankie RuizSon of migration like many other stars of salsa, Frankie began singing and playing boleros pans grandmother at age seven. "Frankie was raised in the nuyores when the Fania was at its peak," said Viti. "That vein, that were born ... In the Roberto Clemente Park Patterson, New Jersey, on Sunday rumba and became rehearsed every day, it was tasty." There Junito sang while his brother played the drums.
In 1971 he recorded two tracks with the New Orchestra of Charlie Lopez: Salsa Buena and Borinquen. With only 13 showed in both songs that had flavor, rhythm and mastery of the key, in addition to a knack for improvisation.
Three years later her grandmother, and so the whole family, you move the Balboa neighborhood in Mayagüez. Viti remember the celebrations of Epiphany where his mother Hilda Ruiz Star "Fido coordinated with the bleeding, it was people like cake, Juan Manuel Lebron, to goose liver was once ... and the solution."
With Solution ...
Frankie left determined to make a career in the music school. In the West Sultana he participated with clusters The Dictator and Modern vibration. One night in 1977 his mother took him to a presentation of the orchestra Solution in Maricao. There he insisted Roberto Rivera, director of the orchestra, to give him a chance at his son.
"I told him I could not because the boy did not know the numbers of the Solution," Rivera told mayaguezsabeamango.com . "He insisted both the lady who stopped climbing in the chorus. When I heard it I really liked the timbre and tone of voice. Since that day he stayed with us. "
That same year, the solution began to accompany Ruben Blades in their presentations on the island. There Roberto Rivera the first time that the Panamanian heard singing Frankie said "That boy will go far, Take care of."
No sooner said than done. Two years later Frankie hit the wheel and beside Solution, toured Latin America in 1979. "Wheel six months was number one on the radio in this country," Rivera said.
Frankie RuizIn 1980, just as Frankie began to enjoy international success, his mother died. He never recovered from that loss, as Zervigón Peter confessed in an interview in 1992: "When I lost her, it hurt, was the greatest and what led me to drugs."
He ended shortly after his join with the solution. Roberto Rivera recalls: "There was a lot of work and Frankie had concerns soloist, then I wanted to do it their way, directing the orchestra and that he could not be."
Frankie went to La Primerísima Tommy Olivencia Orchestra. There he hit songs like "Carpenter" The Neighbor "First I was" and "How to do". He then spent a short time in the chorus and some live with Bobby Valentin hit until the theme "Traveling" as part of a compilation of artists TH Records family.