It was serious fun filming this video book trailer for Tito Puente Mambo King\/Rey del Mambo<\/a> at my loft\/studio with author Monica Brown. Together we published our very first children’s book back in 2004, My Name is Celia\/Me Llamo Celia. As you can imagine we put so much passion and effort into it and then we got to actually meet each other at the Pura Belpr\u00e9 honor and Americas Award celebrations. When our initial efforts were recognized it solidified our friendship and launched two new careers in the world of children books. I had the great opportunity to create the Latin Music Legend stamp<\/a> celebrating Tito Puente for the United States Postal Service. During that time I read everything I could find about the godfather of salsa. I poured over old videos of his exhilarating performances, scanned photos and immersed myself fully into his music.<\/p>\n
\nReuniting to tell the story of Mambo King Tito Puente has been exciting and in the book trailer we hoped to create a sense of the dance between a writer and artist as the words and images comingle.<\/p>\n