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Jimmy Sabater, Latin singer, boogaloo pioneer

By Elias E. Lopez

 |  New York Times  

  February 22, 2012

Mr. Sabater, a singer and timbales player who was one of the architects of the hybrid Latin style known as boogaloo in the 1960s and ’70s, died Feb. 8.

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