It can't be Tito P...................b/c he is passed........little drummer boys......to a big drummer star in the Latin world.................stared with fellow singer/musician in Mambo Kings..........

" Puente was an American musician, songwriter and record producer. The son of Ernest and Felicia Puente, native Puerto Ricans living in New York City's Spanish Harlem, Puente is often credited as "The Musical Pope", "El Rey de los Timbales" and "The King of Latin Music". Wikipedia

Born: April 20, 1923, NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem, New York, NY

Died: May 31, 2000, NYU Langone Orthopedic Center, New York, NY