There was a trip.
I'm not ashamed to say am desperate to connect with her to understand her story and make it mine and tell the world Ramona Latty, my mom, matters. She loved Tito Puente, Celia Cruz and the merengues of Johnny Pacheco. Left: Nola, Ramona and Yvonne Latty take a selfie before a Black Friday shopping trip.

She was my playmate, my friend and always looked out for me. And so I try. He participates in concerts for AIDS and for the Hispanic Hurricane Federation Relief Fund. by Antonio María Delgado, AARP VIVA, Winter 2010 She's wearing hoop earrings and dark lipstick. Free chapter from AARP’s book by Julia Mayer and Barry Jacobs. I would get frantic late-night calls that a black ICE van was circling the block around her apartment, and she would beg me to help her.

Fania became synonymous with the new term. Early Fania All-Stars guests were Eddie Palmieri, Tito Puente, Joe Bataan, Monguito, Mongo Santamaría, Jr., Jimmy Sabater, La Lupe, Louie Ramírez, Ralph Robles Ricardo, Richie Ray, and Bobby Cruz. Like, we'd tell her what to say in English, and she'd say it in Spanish. My daughters loved visiting their abuelita, and I loved visiting, too.

Comments: 0. Everything was hips, hips, hips, didn't matter the music.

Nor was an album that he was under contract for in 1998 with Sony Music Nashville's Lucky Dog Records. She needed 24-hour care, and I had to place her in a nursing home. But I struggled with it, and we butted heads. In 2005 The Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences awarded Johnny Pacheco with its Lifetime Achievement Award at that years Latin Grammy's. I found myself thinking about her all the time, worried.
I felt close to Margie, too.

Three months later, after a series of tests, we ended up in a neurologist packed Bronx waiting room filled with Black and brown people. On the cover of his 1983 ''Biggest Hits'' album, photographed with a beard, long hair and brown leather vest, he looked haggard and sallow. Y LATTY: Nola pulls out a black-and-white photo booth image of my mom taken in the early 1950s. The statistics for the African American community are even worse; they are two to three times more likely to get the disease than white folks. What was left of her memory is deteriorating quickly. Mr. Paycheck had a steady run of hits through the 1970's but still, he found trouble. Finally, her aide found her wandering in the street one morning. His fan base was built on counterculture and blue-collar listeners. I am Afro-Latina, and this disease is rampant in my community. He is survived by his wife; a son, Jonathan; two daughters; and a brother, Jeff Lytle. Our bond grew deeper; I saw how much she wanted out of life, and I so badly wanted that too —for both of us. My 87-year-old mom has Alzheimer's disease in the midst of COVID-19. She was no longer safe. _______________________________________________________________ She had a beautiful, broad smile behind always-painted lips. Y LATTY: Mommy, I was thinking about our trip. Y LATTY: And that's how I remember her, dancing with us in the kitchen to disco, salsa, merengue. I would sit there and look at all the drama unfold below me: the fights and drug sales, the drug addicts nodding off and number runners at work. AARP members receive exclusive member benefits & affect social change. I was told to use music to reach her. Ramona Latty, talking to her daughter Yvonne over Skype from her nursing home at the beginning of the pandemic. In June 1996, Johnny Pacheco was the first Latin music producer to receive the NARAS (National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences) Governor's Award in New York City. Our Internet connection is sound, but mentally, she is in the grips of this disease.

Please enable Javascript in your browser and try again. guest artist in one of his own compositions. View the profiles of professionals named "Johnny Pacheco" on LinkedIn.

The audio version of this story was edited by Luis Trelles and Miguel Macias. But it was grueling. She had to take the medicine at a certain time, but she couldn't take it on her own; Plus, she only had a part-time aide, and so I had to scramble for more help. I grabbed my mother's hand as she stared blankly at the doctor. In the legal proceedings that followed, Mr. Paycheck said the men were taunting and threatening him.

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