Don Quique, Papo Lucca and La Sonora Ponceña was in Ponce, Puerto Rico, when in 1944, a native musician Yauco, but now a resident of that city, Enrique "Quique" Lucca Caraballo, decided to form a musical group. Originally set for two trumpets, rhythm and vocals, and incorporated in its entirety by Ponce musicians, the orchestra is baptized "International Orchestra." Ten years later, the dream of Lucca, about achieving do something transcendental, you start blending. Tired of classroom parties and the Sunday contracts, he decides to disrupt the whole. He wanted something more than a quintet as they led at the time and sought to increase their income to better support his wife Angelica and her three sons. Zulma, Henry and Wanda But music had blood, and soon, February 1954, the reunited. Don Enrique was to establish a new set, a bigger one with more powerful sound. Faz and Espí: to achieve, nourished by a repertoire of popular songs composed by Arsenio Rodriguez (whom he had a deep admiration), the Sonora Matancera and Conjunto Casino, the two Roberto had. The official name of the brand-new orchestra would Sonora Ponceña! The first records of the Ponceña, despite its commercial success and excellent instrumentation, did not stop being strangers, and calling themselves "Sonora" and had Orchestra format They sounded like a set. And the reason was obvious; they were still under the influence of "Blind Wonderful," Arsenio Rodriguez, the third Cuban, whose music label was unbreakable part of the sets of the time. In its beginnings, La Ponceña and perfect Eddie Palmieri orchestra based in New York, were very similar, except that the horn section of the latter was focused on the trombones. Three facts determined consolidation Style Sonora Ponceña. The first was the birth in 1946 of Enrique Arsenio, the now internationally recognized "Papo", a child prodigy who made his professional debut in the television show of the popular Puerto Rican singer Ruth Fernandez, playing the piano and accompanied by the orchestra founded by his father. The second was the purchase of the Inca label by Jerry Masucci, the owner of the firm Fania Records, who had heard La Sonora in different concerts during his visits to New York. Buy broaden distribution and gave the orchestra a chance to meet throughout the Caribbean basin.
