Ray Barretto was an American percussionist and bandleader of Puerto Rican ancestry. Throughout his career as a percussionist, he played a wide variety of Latin music styles, as well as Latin jazz.

KNOWN FOR

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021
Nueva York: A Musical History of Latin New York
2021
Salsa
1976
A Walking Tour of Sesame Street
1979
Money
1991
Pogreso
2005
Las caras lindas de Tite Curet
2002
Legends of Jazz con Ramsey Lewis Volume 3
2006
Beats of the Heart: Salsa
1979
Our Latin Thing (Nuestra Cosa)
1972
From Mambo to Hip Hop
2007

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
10
Sound
1
2021
Nueva York: A Musical History of Latin New York
as Self (archive footage)
2021
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
as Self - Performer (archive footage)
2007
From Mambo to Hip Hop
2006
Legends of Jazz con Ramsey Lewis Volume 3
as Self - Percussionista
2002
Las caras lindas de Tite Curet
as Self (Archive Footage)
1991
Money
as Chandra
1979
A Walking Tour of Sesame Street
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1979
Beats of the Heart: Salsa
as Self
1976
Salsa
1972
Our Latin Thing (Nuestra Cosa)
as Self