Eddie Santiago @ The Conga Room Thursday Feb 11th
Thursday Feb 11th
Eddie Santiago is a salsa singer from Puerto Rico. At a young age, Eddie demonstrated great love and talent for salsa music. He performed with several groups, including Generación 2000, Orquesta La Potente, Orquesta Opus, and the Orquesta Saragüey. Eddie demonstrated great love and talent for salsa music. He performed with several groups, including Generación 2000, Orquesta La Potente, Orquesta Opus, and the Orquesta Saragüey.
Santiago's career took off in 1986 in Puerto Rico and Latin America as a soloist, formimg his own band, and recording songs including: "Tú me quemas" (You Burn Me), "Qué Locura Enamorarme de Ti" (What Madness To Fall in Love With You), "Me Fallaste" (You Failed Me), Antidoto y Veneno (Antidote and Venom), "Tu Me Haces Falta" (I Need You) and his best known hit "Lluvia" (Rain, not to be confused with Menudo's hit of the same name), and many others with his fame eventually spreading to Europe and the United States making him one of the most popular Salsa singer in the late 80's and early 90's. He was one of the main singers singing what was called "Salsa romántica", romantic salsa, due to the romanticism present in the lyrics.
His first major recording on an international label was with Sony Music in 1999. He also recorded for the TH, EMI Latin, and Polygram labels, including the well regarded production inspired by the music of Rafael Hernández, entitled "Enamorado".
In 1999 he released Celebration: Epic Duets. He was joined on that album with other stars in the Latin music scene, Victor Manuelle, Huey Dunbar and Elvis Crespo. The album was named one of the best recordings of 1999 by the National Foundation for Popular Culture.
Santiago has had great success and has earned a number of gold and platinum records, along with numerous awards.
He was nominated for the Salsa/Merengue Album of the Year in the 2006 Grammy Awards.
His song "Black is Black" was included on the Nacho Libre movie soundtrack.
Must be 21 and Tickets available at www.congaroom.com
$45 VIP / $35 GA
For discount tickets email me at sham@spotlightcali.com Or call/Text 626.241.4711
To purchase your tickets online go to www.congaroom.com concert schedule.
Discount promo code is "spotlight" for my discount
Location:
800 W.Olympic Blvd
Los Angeles,Ca 90015
Date: Feb 11th, 2010
Time: 8:00PM-2:00AM
