Live At Yankee Stadium Vol. 2 (Remastered 2025) Fania All Stars

• 1 Hermandad Fania (Remastered 2025 / Live At Yankee Stadium / New York, NY / 1975) 07:25
• 2 Bemba Colorá (Remastered 2025 / Live At Yankee Stadium / New York, NY / 1975) 11:53
• 3 Mi Debilidad (Remastered 2025 / Live At Yankee Stadium / New York, NY / 1975) 05:41
• 4 Echate Pa’lla (Remastered 2025 / Live At Yankee Stadium / New York, NY / 1975) 06:22
• 5 Congo Bongo (Remastered 2025 / Live At Yankee Stadium / New York, NY / 1975) 10:30
• Total Runtime 41:51

Info for Live At Yankee Stadium Vol. 2 (Remastered 2025)

In 1963, Italian-American Jerry Masucci and Dominican-born flautist Johnny Pacheco founded the Fania record label. In doing so, they ushered in salsa's global triumph in the 1970s, when Fania rose to become the number one salsa label and was dubbed the "Motown of Salsa." Promoter Izzy Sanabria, who turned salsa into a global phenomenon through clever marketing, played a key role in this. The Fania All Stars also played a key role. The house band, founded by Pacheco in 1968, was made up of artists signed to Fania. The Fania All Stars had no fixed lineup, just a core group. Alongside bandleader Pacheco, this included virtuosos Ray Barretto (conga), Celia Cruz (vocals), Willie Colón (vocals), and Bobby Valentin (bass). The Fania All Stars undertook several successful tours, even taking them to Africa. Particularly memorable, however, were the open-air concert in front of 50,000 spectators in Central Park in 1972 and the sold-out performance at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx in 1973, excerpts of which were released on vinyl in 1975.

Fania All Stars

Recorded on August 23, 1973

Digitally remastered

Fania All Stars
Right from start, Fania Records and its subsidiaries exceeded everybody’s expectations. The label was created in 1964. It penetrated the market so successfully and became so popular at the international level that its executives decided to broaden its talent in order to reach an even wider audience. The result? The wildly successful Fania All Stars, a group that brought together several of the label’s most popular artists. This move would further solidify the label’s standing in the international music scene.

The Fania All Stars’ first concert, “Live at the Red Garter,” was a promotional experiment designed solely to test the waters. The all-star cast included Tito Puente, Eddie Palmieri, Ricardo Ray, and Bobby Cruz, and resulted in a live double album. The experiment couldn’t have been more successful. In 1971, the band revolutionized salsa as a genre with “Fania All Stars at the Cheetah,” a concert that was filmed and recorded live. In 1973, following a successful tour, the band made its first appearance at Yankee Stadium in New York. The stars performed before countless fans that had caught the fever and were swooning in the presence of consecrated performers of the genre such as Willie Colón, Johnny Pacheco, Bobby Valentín, Ray Barreto, and Mongo Santamaría.This concert, too, was filmed and recorded live, and set the standard in the music industry.

The All Stars were on fertile soil, and they wasted no time in reaping the benefits. In 1974, they appeared live at the Statu Hai stadium in Kinshasa, Zaire, which was the scene of the movie “Fania All Stars Live in Africa.” In 1975, the band returned to Yankee Stadium, this time with such famous names as Celia Cruz, Héctor Lavoe, Justo Betancourt, Ismael Quintana, Cheo Feliciano, Ismael Mirando, Pete “El Conde” Rodríguez, Bobby Cruz, and Santos Colón. One after the other, the band continued performing in concerts that were just as successful and multitudinous: “Salsa,” “Live,” “Best Of,” “Live in Japan” (1976), and “Tribute to Tito Rodríguez,” which marked Rubén Blades’ first performance with the All Stars.

To properly celebrate the Fania All Stars’ 20th birthday and Fania Records’ 30th, the label has re-released two concerts: “Live in Africa” and “Live in Japan,” which propelled a successful tour across five continents and showed the identity of a created family that has spread its social, musical, and cultural message throughout the world.

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