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    Pete "El Conde" Rodríguez

    Puerto Rican musician

    Not to be confused with Pete Rodriguez (boogaloo musician).

    In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Rodríguez and the second or maternal family name is Ferrer.

    Musical artist

    Pedro Juan Rodríguez Ferrer (31 January 1933 – 1 December 2000),[2] better known as Pete "El Conde" Rodríguez, was a salsa singer born in Barrio Cantera,[3]Ponce, Puerto Rico.[4] His son, also named Pete Rodriguez, is also a salsa and jazz musician.[5] His daughter, Cita Rodriguez, is also an accomplished salsa singer.

    Early career

    Rodríguez was a percussionist who started playing bongos at the age of five in his father's quartet El Conjunto Gondolero.[6] After his father's death, at age 12 he moved to The Bronx, New York, during the 1950s.[4] He graduated from Patrick Henry High School and from The New York School of Printing.[7] He worked as a p