Audiobook6 hours
A New America: How Music Reshaped the Culture and Future of a Nation and Redefined My Life
Written by Tommy Mottola
Narrated by Rudy Sanda
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
About this audiobook
Tommy Mottola discovered a passion for Latin music when he was a small child on the streets of the Bronx, where he fell in love with the energy and rhythm of the legendary Tito Puente. It was a love he would carry with him to this day.
In A New America, Mottola explores the societal and cultural impact the Latino community and its music has had on America by sharing behind-the-scenes stories from his own life and his connection to the Latin sound throughout the decades-from his initial fascination with Latin music which started with Puente, to the mainstream success of Ritchie Valens, to the groove-laden guitar wizardry of Carlos Santana.
Along the way, Mottola reveals heartfelt accounts of his longtime collaboration and friendship with Gloria Estefan and her husband Emilio, the meteoric rise and tragic end of Selena, and his orchestration of the Latin Explosion of the 1990s that launched mega-stars such as Jennifer Lopez, Ricky Martin, and Shakira.
But A New America is more than a story about music and musicians. It is the story of a culture that continues to grow and influence America in all its aspects, and an irresistible sound that continues to move and inspire the nation.
In A New America, Mottola explores the societal and cultural impact the Latino community and its music has had on America by sharing behind-the-scenes stories from his own life and his connection to the Latin sound throughout the decades-from his initial fascination with Latin music which started with Puente, to the mainstream success of Ritchie Valens, to the groove-laden guitar wizardry of Carlos Santana.
Along the way, Mottola reveals heartfelt accounts of his longtime collaboration and friendship with Gloria Estefan and her husband Emilio, the meteoric rise and tragic end of Selena, and his orchestration of the Latin Explosion of the 1990s that launched mega-stars such as Jennifer Lopez, Ricky Martin, and Shakira.
But A New America is more than a story about music and musicians. It is the story of a culture that continues to grow and influence America in all its aspects, and an irresistible sound that continues to move and inspire the nation.
Related to A New America
Related audiobooks
Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Prince and the Purple Rain Era Studio Sessions: 1983 and 1984 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dig If You Will the Picture: Funk, Sex, God and Genius in the Music of Prince Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shining Star: Braving the Elements of Earth, Wind & Fire Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Purpose: An Immigrant's Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Prince and the Parade and Sign O' the Times Era Studio Sessions: 1985 and 1986 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5My Life in the Purple Kingdom Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Story of Motown Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Anthems We Love: 29 Iconic Artists on the Hit Songs That Shaped Our Lives Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAretha Franklin: The Queen of Soul Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Goodnight, L.A.: Untold Tales from Inside Classic Rock's Legendary Recording Studios Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Siren Song: My Life in Music Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Luck or Something Like It: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Music Is History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Grown-Up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Robert Plant: The Voice that Sailed the Zeppelin Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Robert Plant: A Life Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Baby Girl: Better Known as Aaliyah Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The One: The Life and Music of James Brown Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5For Your Consideration: Dwayne The Rock Johnson Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5On the Shoulders of Giants, Vol 4: Jazz Lights Up Harlem Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5MJ: The Genius of Michael Jackson Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Too Hot: Kool & the Gang & Me Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Detroit `67 - The Year that changed Soul (Unabridged) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5There Was a Time: James Brown, The Chitlin' Circuit, and Me Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Sex Money Kiss: Revised and Updated Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOn the Shoulders of Giants, Vol 3: Basketball Comes to Harlem Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Jazz Palace Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
United States History For You
The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Land of Delusion: Out on the edge with the crackpots and conspiracy-mongers remaking our shared reality Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Killing the Guys Who Killed the Guy Who Killed Lincoln: A Nutty Story About Edwin Booth and Boston Corbett Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lies My Teacher Told Me: 2nd Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Untold History of the United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government's Search for Alien Life Here—and Out There Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5John Adams Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of September 11, 2001 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Up From Slavery Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Wright Brothers Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/51776 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson And The Opening Of The American West Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for A New America
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews