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Bobby Cruz was born in 1937 in the small town of Hormigueros, Puerto Rico. The reach of his potent voice and his skills as a music arranger and composer won him ample notoriety. When he joined Richie Ray's orchestra in 1964, he added popular Puerto Rican music themes in addition to singing in Spanish without errors. The most important influences on him were Cortijo y su Combo, the plena, and themes related to country folk.

He met up with Richie Ray in New York, where he had lived since adolescence. Richie Ray had been well known but not until Cruz joined his band, did he become a legend. Cruz began making musical arrangements and singing in the chorus but soon became the lead singer with "Mr. Trumpet Man" in 1966.

In the following ten years, Ray and Cruz formed one of the duos that defined the history of salsa; recording nine gold albums. Cruz distinguished himself as a composer of hit songs such as "La Zafra" which won the Festival of Orchestras prize for the duo in 1975.

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