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Nancy Gallardo
Yesterday
Wish I would have tried a little harder to get to know you better. Until we meet again RIP and tell Charlie I miss him
Lydia Camacho
August 12, 2025
My condolences to the entire Eddie Palmieri Family. This is a huge loss to all of those who followed and loved his music. He was a great Latin artist who will never be forgotten and his music will live on forever...
Rest in peace Master/King Eddie Palmieri and thank you for sharing your music that touched every ones heart.
DJ
August 11, 2025
I gave Eddie Palmieri a t shirt I made of hector lavoe. It was a gift I'll never forget his live performance rest in piece maestro.
ALAN LEEDS
August 11, 2025
EDDIE PALMIERI was a life force. While his vast musical legacy will be celebrated for years to come, if he loved anything more than music it was people. His love of life was contagious and intoxicating in conversation and from his piano. His was a captivating presence, warmly personable while always self assured.
Eddie loved New York. And he knew the history of the music. He knew where it came from and knew where he spent his life taking it. He could regale you with his vivid memories of how Afro Cuban music evolved in El Barrio before spreading across New York´s five boroughs. I´ve seen Eddie and his orchestras perform in California, Minneapolis and Paris but nothing matched a Palmieri gig in a New York club with a packed dance floor when he challenged his band to wear them out.
More than an accomplished musician and composer, El Maestro was a true band leader in the traditional sense. His driving, rhythmic piano had an uncanny ability to coalesce groups of identifiably unique, all star musicians that bled chops into an orchestra that sounded like an all- powerful single being with multiple appendages.
Palmieri´s tried and true repertoire never grew old nor did the exuberance with which he approached the compositions he had played thousands of times. His audience never tired of them because he never tired of them. And if he did, he found new musicians to challenge him and keep his arrangements fresh. There was never any going-through-the-motions on a Palmieri bandstand.
Seldom a day goes by without me listening to some Eddie, but it´s Eddie the man I already miss. He was the last of a breed, a New Yorker who grew up playing stickball and helping his family behind the soda fountain in what was called a "candy store" before they became "bodegas". He refined his craft in the dozens of clubs, dance halls and ballrooms that were accessible to young enterprising artists in the 1950´s and 1960´s. His music was a ferocious brand of aggressive ambition that coincided with, and often spoke to, the cultural and political history of his art form, his people and the city he loved.
There will never be another Eddie Palmieri. There can´t be another Eddie Palmieri. But a soul like Eddie Palmieri´s lives on for eternity.
Arnoldo Lacayo
August 10, 2025
I was saddened to hear the news of Eddie´s passing, he´s in a better place now with his Savior Jesus Christ, I grew up with Eddie´s music, his music was part of my life.
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