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Trio Los Platinos and special guest vocalist Gloria Mirabal

Nov 21, 2013 @ 8:00pm

Featuring Julio Melendez (third voice and lead guitar), Julio Cuevas (second voice and rhythm guitar), Gloria Mirabal (vocals).
Trío Los Platinos was started in 1962. its first members were Pepito Lacomba Jr., Teddy Torres, and Julio Cuevas, who was the trío’s director. Today its members are Ray Vasqúes (first voice), Julio Melendez (first guitar and third voice), and Julio Cuevas
(second guitar and second voice) remains the director. Though they were born in Puerto Rico they are now longtime residents of the Bronx. As a group that has performed for over 50 years they are the longest established group in this genre in New York (Trío Vegabajeño in Puerto Rico is the only group that has been around longer).
Gloria Mirabal was born in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico to a musical family. Her father and uncles were musicians and her brother Johnny performed in a trío. In 1967 she moved to Brooklyn and a year later to Queens where she has lived since. She is known as “La Gloria de Puerto Rico.” She has played in theaters and nightclubs throughout the U.S., including the Teatro Puerto Rico, and has performed throughout South America. She is famous not only for her boleros, but sings tangos, merengues, guarachas, and cumbias as well