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Profile of Famous Musician Eddie Palmieri

Eddie Palmieri is a salsa musician and bandleader who successfully merged jazz with Latin rhythms and overtones.

He has won nine Grammys and produced over thirty records over his fifty year career and prides himself on being able to take his listeners to new places and sensations with his music.

He continues to perform today and is well known across the world. He has traveled to Japan, Europe, and Latin America in order to perform his music and learn more about himself and the music he is so drawn to. Palmieri has won a number of other awards as well, including prestigious awards such as the Harlem Renaissance Award in 2005.

Eddie Palmieri was born in the South Bronx area of New York City in 1936 and he began playing the piano at an early age, along with his older brother Charlie Palmieri who is also a very famous salsa musician. He includes Thelonious Monk as one of his influences for playing the piano.

When he was a little older, he tried to play the drums as well, but found he had less skill for it and so went back to the piano. He quickly established himself as a child prodigy, even setting up his first band when he was fourteen.

He also joined a few bands, including Eddie Foresters Orchestra in the early 1950s and the Tito Rodriguez Orchestra for a year. Then he set up his own band La Perfecta which quickly achieved legendary status for its unique arrangement of instruments such as having a trombone section instead of the usual trumpet section.

His new style of Latin, salsa, funk and jazz fusion quickly elevated his band up to the status of the bands he once performed with. His creativity with instruments and sound merging surprised and amazed critics and fans alike and guaranteed him a place in musical history as well as numerous awards and record deals. La Perfecta had many brilliant musicians for Eddie to utilize, including Ronnie Cuber and Victor Venegas, as well as his own brother.

Although the band broke up in 1968, he continued to play and record music, including songs commenting on current issues of social justice and economy in America in the sixties and seventies.

His middle records won him a number of Grammys, but this was also a time of spats with Fania Records, which not only had him producing a record that flopped, but that he also regretted joining overall, even for a short time.

He had a series of disappointing records and tours and returned to New York from his touring, frustrated, but not defeated. Instead, he established a new band, La Perfecta II and went back to writing and touring, especially overseas where he was very popular.

Eddie Palmieri continues to record and play today, his music just as inspiring to his fans as it ever was. In 2005, he won a number of prestigious awards for his music. A couple of his songs have also been recorded by the Smithsonian Institute for historical purposes. His bold, cheerful, and innovative style of music has long ago assured him a place in music history, but he continues to create new music and experiment with his styles rather than allow himself to be stuck in a rut.

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