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Puerto Rican Salsa singer (1958–2020)

Carlos Enrique Estremera Colón (2 September 1958 – 28 October 2020) was a Puerto RicanSalsa singer,^[1] a native of Santurce, Puerto Rico.

Estremera was nicknamed "el niño de oro" (transl. "the golden boy") and later "el dueño del soneo" (transl. "the owner of "soneo""), for his uncanny ability to improvise lyrics to Salsa music. Estremera was albino, and billed as "El Cano" (transl. "the blonde guy").

Career

In his early years, Estremera lived in Residencial Las Casas, a large public housing complex located in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico.^[2] Estremera developed his talent as a singer while performing with other musicians in Barrio Obrero, one of the forty subbarrios of Santurce,^[3] not far from Tras Talleres, in Santurce, where many Puerto Rican Salsa musicians and other celebrities (such as Daniel Santos, Andy Montañez and Ossie Ocasio) were raised.

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