Millie Puente (born 1958) is an American Latin jazz singer. She is cousin of Tito Puente and earned a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Tropical Latin Album nomination with her first album, Tito Puente Presents Millie P in 1991.[1][2][3] In 2002 she was reported to be writing a book and working on a tribute album to Puente.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Tito Puente Presents - Millie P., Tito Puente | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 2020-01-12.
  2. ↑ "Puente`s 23-year-old cousin, Millie Puente, earned a Grammy nomination with her first album, Tito Puente Presents Millie ``P.`` Millie is currently touring with Puente as a guest vocalist. ``I want to make her a jazz singer in Spanish,`` Puente says."
  3. ↑ Urban: the latino magazine 1996 "That opened the door to projects like producing for Millie P., Tito Puente's cousin, and later an album with El Rey himself, Puente's 100th album, which became Puente's best selling record of all time."
  4. ↑ "Hold the order: Steak, shake soon The restaurant across from Plant High will be able to sate those steakburger desires by the end of the month". St. Petersburg Times. June 7, 2002. Archived from the original on 2002-11-30. In the wake of Tito Puente's death in 2000, Millie Puente is trying to revive her music career, .. She's also working on a tribute album to her late cousin, and dividing time between her Latin bands here and in her native New York. Catch her when she's in town and you can see whether she handles the clippers as well as she handles a pair of timbales sticks.


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