BOBBY CAPÓ

Releases
La Voz que Acaricia, Leo Marini
Johnny Albino y Su Trío San Juan
Boleros, Julito Rodríguez
Como un Milagro, Bobby Capó
Bobby Capó Sings, Boleros Y Más
Yo Canto para Ti, Bobby Capó
Bebo Valdés Vs. Noro Morales
Luna De Miel, Rafael Muñoz
La Voz de Julio Jaramillo
Boleros, Gilberto Monroig
Amigos y Mujeres, Los Quechuas
Sabor A Mí, Rolando Laserie
Moliendo Café, Ismael Rivera
En Mi Viejo San Juan, Los Tres Reyes
Quizás, Quizás, Quizás, Pedro Vargas
Apágame la Vela, Alberto Beltrán
Luna de Miel en Puerto Rico, Los Ruffino
Romántico, Jorge Fernandez
Sax Cha-Cha, Juanito Márquez
Marimbas Mexicanas, Marimba Chiapas
Pedro Vargas, Pedro Vargas
Noro Morales, Noro Morales
La Voz Romántica De México, Fernando Fernández
Homenaje a Rafael Hernández "El Jibarito"
Sings In Spanish, Caterina Valente
Bikini Amarillo, Korafas
Danzas De Puerto Rico
El Bardo, Fernándo Fernández
Románticos de Puerto Rico
100 Puerto Rico Vintage, La Isla del Encanto Vol. 2
Ponle un Bolero a la Noche, Boleros
Los Megatones de Lucho, Los Megatones de Lucho
100 Puerto Rico Vintage, La Isla del Encanto
Así Bailaba Puerto Rico
Boleros y Más
100 Boleros a Mis Padres
La Auténtica Salsa Con Merengue, 100 Canciones
100 Boleros, 100 Intérpretes
La Sonora Radio Latina Vol. 3
Videos
Biography
Bobby Capó was born in Coamo, Puerto Rico. After earning a strong reputation as a likable, versatile singer, he adopted his stage name (Rodriguez is one of Puerto Rico’s most common surnames, and he opted to use his mother’s less common one instead) and emigrated to the city of New York, early in the 1940s. He then joined Xavier Cugat’s orchestra. From that moment on, he went on to become an idol all over Latin America.
Bobby Capó was a polifacetic entertainer. Apart from singing, he was also a television host, as well as technical and musical director. However, his somewhat intimate songs are what Capó was -and is- best known for.Bobby Capó was a prolific song writer and wrote for many of his contemporaries. Many of the songs he wrote were smash hits in Puerto Rico, and occasionally in the rest of Latin America. One of his self-penned songs was El Negro Bembón. The song was a hit for Cortijo y su Combo in the mid-1950s. The song, with local circumstances and character name changed, became “El Gitano Antón,”, a huge hit for Catalan rumba singer Peret in Spain around the mid 1960s.
The song was later covered by many artists, including fellow Puerto Rican Daniel Santos in an emblematic rendition, Linda Ronstadt, Nat King Cole, Tin Tan, José Feliciano, and Natalia Lafourcade; Josephine Baker recorded a version in French. The song became the main theme for a Mexican movie of the same name in the late 1950s. So was Luna de Miel en Puerto Rico (Puerto Rican Honeymoon), a latter-day cha-cha-cha which was also the theme for an eponymous movie, co-produced by Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in the early 1960s.