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El Judío Maravilloso!

- Source: Boogie Woogie Flu

It was a classically Semitic combination of chutzpah and horniness that led Lawrence Ira Kahn, a white Jewish kid from Brownsville, Brooklyn to become Larry Harlow, a king of salsa, a musical movement that combined Cuban son with New York bebop, and served as much to fuel the dance floors of nightclubs numbering in the hundreds during its heyday in the early 1970s, as to define the cultural voice of New York's influx of Latino immigrants—mostly Puerto Rican, Cuban, and Dominican—that began in the 1950s.

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