Jerry Masucci
Template:Short description Gerald "Jerry" Masucci[1] (October 7, 1934 – December 21, 1997) was an American attorney, businessman and was co-founder of Fania Records.
Biography
Masucci was born in Brooklyn, New York[2] to Italian immigrant parents Urbano and Elvira Masucci.[3] He was a police officer in New York City before attending, and during law school. In 1960, he graduated from New York Law School as a juris doctor. He then worked for a public relations firm in Cuba, where he became interested in Latin music.[4]
In 1964 in New York City, Masucci, then a divorce attorney, and Johnny Pacheco, a Dominican musician, established Fania Records.[5][6][7][8][9] They started out selling records out of the trunk of cars on the streets of Spanish Harlem, signing up young artists, creating new sounds, and eventually having hit records.[10] Over the next 15 years, Fania Records helped define the sound, culture, and language associated with the salsa genre, a musical movement that arose partly from the unavailability in the United States of music produced in Cuba.[11]
In 1980, he was running Fame, a modeling agency.[12]
Masucci died of aortic aneurysm caused by a heart attack in Buenos Aires, Argentina on December 21, 1997 at age 63. It was reported that he had three daughters, Darlene, Misty and Corinne.[13][4][14]
Discography
Studio albums
- A Tribute to Tito Rodríguez (Fania, 1976)
- Latin Connection (Fania, 1981)
- Social Change (Fania, 1981)
- Guasasa (Fania, 1989)
- Ray Barretto ACID (Fania 1968)
Live albums
- Live at the Red Garter, Vol. 1 (Fania, 1968)
- Live at the Red Garter, Vol. 2 (Fania, 1969)
- Live at the Cheetah, Vol. 1 (Fania, 1972)
- Live at the Cheetah, Vol. 2 (Fania, 1972)
- Live at the Cheetah, Vol. 2 (Fania, 1973)
- Latin-Soul-Rock (Fania, 1974)
- Fania All-Stars (Island, 1975)
- Live in Japan 76 (Fania, 1976)
- Live at Yankee Stadium, Vol. 1 (Fania, 1976)
- Live at Yankee Stadium, Vol. 2 (Fania, 1976)
- Live (Fania, 1978)
- Habana Jam (Fania, 1979)
- Live in Africa (Fania, 1986)
DVDs
- Our Latin Thing (Fania 1972)
- Salsa (Fania, 1974)
- In Africa (Fania, 1993)
- Live (Fania, 1995)
References
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- 1934 births
- 1997 deaths
- New York Law School alumni
- People from Brooklyn
- Fania Records artists
- Record producers from New York (state)
- Music promoters
- New York (state) lawyers
- American people of Italian descent
- 20th-century American businesspeople
- New York City Police Department officers
- 20th-century American lawyers