Miguelito - Canto a Borinquen

Mar 7, 2019

1h 34m

★ 0.0

Overview

In 1973, eleven year old Miguelito was discovered singing in the San Juan airport by the legendary New York record producer Harvey Averne. Within the year, he went from the slums of Manuel A Perez, to recording an album with some of the finest salsa musicians of the time to finally performing with Eddie Palmieri at Madison Square Garden in front of 20,000 people. Throughout Latin America his songs ‘Payaso’ and ‘Canto a Borinquen’ had become cult hits. And then he simply disappeared...

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

JOTZ Productions

Miguelito - Canto a Borinquen Trailers

Cast

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Miguel Ángel González Sánchez

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Harvey Averne

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Julio Castro

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Nelson Feliciano

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Fulasu

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Aida González

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Evelyn González

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Leonor González

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Papo Lucca

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Japhet Rodriguez

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Máximo Torres

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