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Miguelito - Canto a Borinquen

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In 1973, eleven year old Miguelito was discovered singing in the San Juan airport by the legendary New York record producer Harvey Averne. Within the year, he went from the slums of Manuel A Perez, to recording an album with some of the finest salsa musicians of the time to finally performing with Eddie Palmieri at Madison Square Garden in front of 20,000 people. Throughout Latin America his songs ‘Payaso’ and ‘Canto a Borinquen’ had become cult hits. And then he simply disappeared...

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Status: Released

Released Date: 2019-03-07

Runtime: 94 mins

Director: Sam Zubrycki

Writer: Sam Zubrycki

Spoken language:

Genres: Documentary

Original title: Miguelito - Canto a Borinquen

Production Companies: JOTZ Productions

Production Countries: Australia

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