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.