Cover of Tito Puente, Mambo King/Tito Puente, Rey del Mambo

Tito Puente, Mambo King/Tito Puente, Rey del Mambo

by Monica Brown · 2013 · 32 pages

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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, clap your hands for Tito Puente... The Mambo King plays and sways ans people dance the mambo, the rumba, and the cha-cha!

Damas y senores, ninos y ninas, aplaudan a Tito Puente ... El Rey del Mambo toca su musica y se balancea mientras la audiencia baila el mambo, la rumba y el chachacha!

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Subject
biographyhistorysocial science
Themes
musicdiversityart
Setting
2010sUSAspain
Audience
picture bookschildrens
Length
short · 32 pages

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