RMM Records, also known as RMM Records & Video Corp, was an independent Latin music record label

Record label

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 based in New York City, The record label was formed originally as RMM Management by one of Fania Records

Fania Records

Fania Records was a New York based record label founded by Dominican-born composer and bandleader Johnny Pacheco and Italian-American lawyer Jerry Masucci in 1964. The label took its name from an old Cuban song by the singer Reinaldo Bolaño. Fania is known for its promotion of what has become...

 promoter Ralph Mercado

Ralph Mercado

Ralph Mercado Jr. was a promoter of Latin American music — Latin Jazz, Latin rock, merengue and salsa — who established a network of businesses that included promoting concerts, managing artists, Radio Mundo Musical a record label the most important in the Latin industry during 1980-1990, film...

, but in 1987

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 it started operating as a record label, with Angelito Villalona and José Alberto

José Alberto

José Alberto is a Dominican salsa singer. José Alberto moved to Puerto Rico with his family at the age of 7, and inspired by Latin music went on to polish his singing at Las Antillas Military Academy...

 'El Canario' as the label's first artists.

Artists who recorded for the label throughout the late 1980s and 1990s included Marc Anthony

Marc Anthony

Marc Anthony is an American singer-songwriter, actor and producer. Anthony is the top selling tropical salsa artist of all time. The two-time Grammy and three-time Latin Grammy–winner has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide. He is best known for his Latin salsa numbers and ballads...

, La India

La India

La India , known also as "La Princesa de la Salsa" , is a singer of salsa. She has been nominated for both Grammy and Latin Grammy awards.-Early years:...

, Tito Nieves

Tito Nieves

Humberto "Tito" Nieves became one of the leading Salsa singers of the 1980s and the early 1990s....

, José Alberto

José Alberto

José Alberto is a Dominican salsa singer. José Alberto moved to Puerto Rico with his family at the age of 7, and inspired by Latin music went on to polish his singing at Las Antillas Military Academy...

 'El Canario', Tony Vega

Tony Vega

Tony Vega is a renowned salsa singer and bandleader.-Early years:Vega received his primary education in his hometown. He was born into a family of musicians and therefore learned how to play the bongos and conga at an early age. In 1967, when he was 10 years old, he played the conga for a kids...

, Johnny Rivera

Johnny Rivera

Johnny Rivera is a Puerto Rican American salsa singer.Rivera was raised in the Bronx, and attended high school at Benjamin Franklin High School. He moved briefly to Puerto Rico before returning to New York to begin a career in music...

, Ray Sepúlveda

Ray Sepúlveda

Ray Sepúlveda is a Puerto Rican American salsa singer, born in Brooklyn, New York.Sepúlveda grew up in Brooklyn & the Bronx, New York, where his father, Ramon Sepulveda sang boleros with his group "Trio Los Romanticos"...

, Domingo Quiñones

Domingo Quiñones

Domingo Quiñones is a singer of salsa music. He is also a composer, producer and actor.Domingo Quinones was born on August 9, 1963 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. When he was four years old he moved to Puerto Rico with his parents and lived in Ceiba. He returned to New York City in 1977. He began his...

, Tito Puente

Tito Puente

Tito Puente, , born Ernesto Antonio Puente, was a Latin jazz and Salsa musician. The son of native Puerto Ricans Ernest and Ercilia Puente, of Spanish Harlem in New York City, Puente is often credited as "El Rey de los Timbales" and "The King of Latin Music"...

, Celia Cruz

Celia Cruz

Celia Cruz was a Cuban-American salsa singer, and was one of the most successful Salsa performers of the 20th century, having earned twenty-three gold albums...

, Eddie Palmieri

Eddie Palmieri

Eddie Palmieri , is a Grammy Award winning Puerto Rican pianist, bandleader and musician, best known for combining jazz piano and instrumental solos with Latin rhythms.-Early years:...

, Oscar D'León

Oscar D'León

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, Cheo Feliciano

Cheo Feliciano

José Feliciano, better known as Cheo Feliciano , is a composer and singer of salsa and bolero music.-Early years:...

, Ismael Miranda

Ismael Miranda

Ismael Miranda a.k.a. El niño bonito de la Salsa is a composer and a singer of salsa music.-Early years:...

, Miles Peña

Miles Peña

Miles Peña is a Cuban salsa musician.Peña was a child actor, appearing in Los Arifices when he was eight years old. He studied at the Amdeo Rodán Music Academy and then moved to the Dominican Republic. In 1993 he signed with RMM Records and released his debut album...

, Orquesta Guayacan, Conjunto Clasico, Manny Manuel

Manny Manuel

Cruz Manuel Hernández Santiago , known artistically as Manny Manuel, is a Puerto Rican singer of merengue, boleros, and tropical music. He became famous first as a member of the group Los Sabrosos del Merengue, before launching a successful solo career in 1994.-Early life:Manny Manuel was born in...

, and the New York Band.

Former Musical Directors included famed pianists, producers, and arrangers Sergio George

Sergio George

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 and Isidro Infante.

Focusing on salsa, Latin jazz, and merengue music and re-inventing the New York sound of Latin music, the label was had an impressive roster of artists during the its peak in the 1990s.

In April 2001, due to the label losing revenues, artists and several lawsuits, Mercado sold RMM Records to Universal Music Group

Universal Music Group

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. The label ceased operations shortly afterward, however, Universal continues to redistribute recordings form RMM's record catalog.

Familia RMM Recordings

• Combinación Perfecta 1993
• Tropical Tribute to The Beatles
  Tropical Tribute to The Beatles
  Tropical Tribute to the Beatles is a tribute album of tropical artists released in 1996 by RMM Records , produced by Oscar Gomez ....
  
   1996
• Recordando a Selena 1996
• En Vivo
  En Vivo
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   1994 (recorded at Miami Arena, July 1993)
• European Explosion 1996 (recorded at Cannes, February 1995)

Artists

• Tony Vega
  Tony Vega
  Tony Vega is a renowned salsa singer and bandleader.-Early years:Vega received his primary education in his hometown. He was born into a family of musicians and therefore learned how to play the bongos and conga at an early age. In 1967, when he was 10 years old, he played the conga for a kids...
  
  
• Van Lester
• Ray Sepúlveda
  Ray Sepúlveda
  Ray Sepúlveda is a Puerto Rican American salsa singer, born in Brooklyn, New York.Sepúlveda grew up in Brooklyn & the Bronx, New York, where his father, Ramon Sepulveda sang boleros with his group "Trio Los Romanticos"...
  
  
• Jesús Enríquez
• Guianko
  Guianko
  Guianko Gomez Medina, born in Havana, Cuba, is a salsa singer.Guianko's debut album, Llamame Yanko, was released in 1995. This album featured the song "Temes", which reached #11 on the Billboard Latin singles chart that year...
  
   (also known as Yanko)
• Louie Ramirez
  Louie Ramirez
  Louie Ramirez was a boogaloo, salsa and latin jazz percussionist, vibraphonist, band leader and composer. He was born on February 24, 1938 in New York City. He died on June 7, 1993...
  
  
• Ray De La Paz
• 3-2 Get Funky
• Tito Puente
  Tito Puente
  Tito Puente, , born Ernesto Antonio Puente, was a Latin jazz and Salsa musician. The son of native Puerto Ricans Ernest and Ercilia Puente, of Spanish Harlem in New York City, Puente is often credited as "El Rey de los Timbales" and "The King of Latin Music"...
  
  
• Humberto Ramírez
• Cheo Feliciano
  Cheo Feliciano
  José Feliciano, better known as Cheo Feliciano , is a composer and singer of salsa and bolero music.-Early years:...
  
  
• Miles Peña
  Miles Peña
  Miles Peña is a Cuban salsa musician.Peña was a child actor, appearing in Los Arifices when he was eight years old. He studied at the Amdeo Rodán Music Academy and then moved to the Dominican Republic. In 1993 he signed with RMM Records and released his debut album...
  
  
• Vanessa
• Isidro Infante & La Elite
• José Alberto "El Canario"
• Tito Nieves
  Tito Nieves
  Humberto "Tito" Nieves became one of the leading Salsa singers of the 1980s and the early 1990s....
  
  
• Celia Cruz
  Celia Cruz
  Celia Cruz was a Cuban-American salsa singer, and was one of the most successful Salsa performers of the 20th century, having earned twenty-three gold albums...
  
  
• Giovanny Hidalgo
• Orquesta de la Luz
  Orquesta de la Luz
  is a Japanese salsa band that began performing and recording in 1990. The band sings in Spanish, and is led by vocalist Nora, who returned to traditional salsa after the band broke up in the mid-1990s...
  
   (Co-Distributed by BMG Victor Japan)
• Pete "El Conde" Rodríguez
• Guayacán Orquesta
• Michael Stuart
  Michael Stuart
  Michael Stuart is an American salsa singer and actor.- Early years :Stuart was born in New York City, to Puerto Rican parents who settled in the 1960s after emigrating from Puerto Rico. There Stuart received his primary and secondary education. He was musically influenced by his uncle Israel...
  
  
• Ismael Miranda
  Ismael Miranda
  Ismael Miranda a.k.a. El niño bonito de la Salsa is a composer and a singer of salsa music.-Early years:...
  
  
• Antonio Cartagena
• Corinne
• Kevin Ceballo
  Kevin Ceballo
  Kevin Ceballo is a singer of Salsa music of Puerto Rican descent.-Early years:Ceballo's parents immigrated from Puerto Rico and settled in Manhattan where Ceballo was born. His parents are Seventh-Day Adventists. Ceballo was exposed to and enjoyed the gospel singing at his House of Worship...
  
  
• Johnny Rivera
  Johnny Rivera
  Johnny Rivera is a Puerto Rican American salsa singer.Rivera was raised in the Bronx, and attended high school at Benjamin Franklin High School. He moved briefly to Puerto Rico before returning to New York to begin a career in music...
  
  
• Oscar D'León
  Oscar D'León
  Oscar Emilio León Somoza, better known as Oscar D'León is a Venezuelan musician who became internationally famous for his salsa music. In Spanish, he is known as El Sonero del Mundo . His most famous song is perhaps "Llorarás," which he recorded in 1975 with his group La Dimensión Latina...
  
  
• Luis Perico Ortíz
• Marc Anthony
  Marc Anthony
  Marc Anthony is an American singer-songwriter, actor and producer. Anthony is the top selling tropical salsa artist of all time. The two-time Grammy and three-time Latin Grammy–winner has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide. He is best known for his Latin salsa numbers and ballads...
  
  
• Manny Manuel
  Manny Manuel
  Cruz Manuel Hernández Santiago , known artistically as Manny Manuel, is a Puerto Rican singer of merengue, boleros, and tropical music. He became famous first as a member of the group Los Sabrosos del Merengue, before launching a successful solo career in 1994.-Early life:Manny Manuel was born in...
  
  
• Frankie Morales
• La India
  La India
  La India , known also as "La Princesa de la Salsa" , is a singer of salsa. She has been nominated for both Grammy and Latin Grammy awards.-Early years:...
  
  
• Domingo Quiñones
  Domingo Quiñones
  Domingo Quiñones is a singer of salsa music. He is also a composer, producer and actor.Domingo Quinones was born on August 9, 1963 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. When he was four years old he moved to Puerto Rico with his parents and lived in Ceiba. He returned to New York City in 1977. He began his...
  
  
• Los Hermanos Moreno
• Ray Perdomo
• Grupo Caneo
• Eddie Palmieri
  Eddie Palmieri
  Eddie Palmieri , is a Grammy Award winning Puerto Rican pianist, bandleader and musician, best known for combining jazz piano and instrumental solos with Latin rhythms.-Early years:...
  
  
• The New York Band
• Johnny Almendra & Los Jovenes del Barrio
• Robert Avellanet
  Robert Avellanet
  Robert Avellanet , also known as Roberto Avellanet, is a singer who was a member of Menudo.-Biography:Robert Avellanet is the nephew of well known pop and ballad singer Chucho Avellanet...
  
  
• Lisandro Mesa
• Descarga Boricua
• Limi-T 21
  Limi-T 21
  Limi-T 21 is a popular merengue group from Puerto Rico. The group was formed in 1991 and have been together since....
  
  
• Matecaña Orquesta
• Fernando Echavarría y La familia André
• Sin Limite
  Sin Límite
  Sin Límite is the seventeenth album of Puerto Rican singer Ednita Nazario. It was released in 2001.-Track listing:# "Devuélveme"# "Después De La Lluvia"# "Bajo Cero"# "Vida"# "Dime"# "Lo Que Fue No Será"# "No Te Quiero Más"# "Cada Vez"...
  
  
• Willy Rivera
• Charlie Sepulveda
• Rubén Sierra
  Rubén Sierra
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• Yorman
• Yari Moré
• Jerry Galante
• Issac Delgado
  Issac Delgado
  This article is about the musician; for the New Orleans philanthropist with a similar name, see Isaac DelgadoIssac Delgado is one of the founders of the band NG La Banda and is a popular salsa and timba performer.-Early life and family:His father, Luis Delgado, was a tailor and his mother,...
  
  
• Dave Valentin
  Dave Valentin
  Dave Valentin is a jazz flutist.He learned latin percussion first when he was a teenager, and then switched to flute. Valentin's teacher, Hubert Laws, suggested that he not double on saxophone because of his attractive sound on the flute. He studied at the Bronx Community College...
  
  
• Chamy Solano
• Grupo Raices
• Puerto Rico All Stars
  Puerto Rico All Stars
  The Puerto Rico All Stars was a salsa & latin jazz ensemble band that was founded in 1977 by Frankie Gregory. Based in Puerto Rico, the Puerto Rico All Stars were an alternative and rival to the New York based Fania All-Stars created by Johnny Pacheco.PRAS...
  
  
• Aramis Camilo
• Marcos Caminero
• Monchy
  Monchy
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• Ravel
• Cuco Valoy
  Cuco Valoy
  Cuco Valoy is Dominican salsa and merengue singer. He is the father of Ramón Orlando with whom he formed the band Los Virtuosos...
  
  
• Mickey Perfecto
• Jandy Feliz
  Jandy Feliz
  José del Carmen Feliz Matos better known as Jandy Feliz is a singer-songwriter from the Dominican Republic.-Biography:Feliz began his career as a member of the group Chichi Peralta y Son Familia. He was the lead vocalist on the group's biggest hit to date, "Procura". In 2001, he decided to go...
  
  
• Tres Equis
• Aníbal Bravo
• Vivanativa
• La Misma Gente
• Paymasi
• Cesar Flores
  Cesar Flores
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• July Mateo "Rasputín"
• Los Nietos y Sergio Hernández
• Aleo
• Wichy Camacho
• Angelito Villalona
• Grupo Heavy
• Alberto Barros
• Henry Rosario
• Michel Camilo
  Michel Camilo
  Michel Camilo is a pianist and composer from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He specializes in jazz, Latin and classical piano work...
  
  
• Deddie Romero
• Jerry Medina
• Raul Paz
  Raul Paz
  Raúl Paz was born in 1969 in the province of Pinar del Río, in the west of Cuba. Commonly nicknamed the « French Cuban », he is known for having revolutionized the 21st century Cuban music.- Biography :...
  
  
• Hilton Ruiz
  Hilton Ruiz
  Hilton Ruiz was a Puerto Rican American jazz pianist in the Afro-Cuban jazz mold, but was also a talented bebop player....
  
  
• Fausto Rey
  Fausto Rey
  Fausto Ramón Sepúlveda, better known by his stage name Fausto Rey, was born December 1, 1950 in the Higuey province, on the east coast of the Dominican Republic....
  
  
• Antonio Cabán Vale "El Topo"
• K´stalia y Los Salchichas
• He´Pepo
• Cali Alemán
• Aleo
• Checo Acosta
• Alto Voltaje
• Andrés Mercedes
• Azucarado
• Lucecita Benítez
  Lucecita Benítez
  Luz Esther Benítez , better known in the music world as Lucecita, is a Puerto Rican singer.-Biography:Lucecita was a member of what is historically known in Puerto Rico as the New Wave, or Nueva Ola of popular music, created by Alfred D. Herger, alongside Lissette and Chucho Avellanet, among others...
  
  
• Celinés
• Cherito
• Chrissy
• Conexión Salsera
• El Combo Show
• Bobby Cruz
  Bobby Cruz
  Bobby Cruz is a salsa singer and religious minister. He is well known for his success beginning in 1965 as part of the duo Richie Ray & Bobby Cruz. His seminal professional pairing with Richie Ray is one of the longest-lived partnerships in Latino music, lasting over 45 years...
  
  
• Paquito D’Rivera
• DJ Karlos
• Freddie Gerardo
• Pancho Gómez
• Grupo ABC
• Grupo Mandarina
• José Octavio
• La Artillería
• La Orquesta Joven
• Latino Man
• Los Bravos
• Jesse Márquez
• Luisito Martí
• Johan Minaya
• Glen Monroig
• Nettai Tropical Jazz Big Band
• José Nogueras
  José Nogueras
  José Nogueras is a composer, singer, guitarist, and performer of modern-day typical Puerto Rican music.In 2006, he received a liver transplant after suffering from acute cirrhosis and cancer. and was able to begin performing again in 2007...
  
  
• Nora
• Orchestra 7
• Mickey Perfecto
• Millie Puente
• Sandy Reyes
• Roc & Kato
• Kike Santana
• Super Cuban All Stars
• José Manuel Taveras
• Juan Pablo Torres
• Charlie Valens
• Wellington
• Yolanda Duke
• Familia RMM
• TropiJazz All-Stars
• Sergio George
  Sergio George
  Sergio George is a pianist and record producer, known for working with many famous performers of salsa music, although he has worked in other genres as well...
  
  

RMM labels

• SOHO Latino
• Sonero Discos
• RMM International
• TropiJazz
• Merengazo
• RMM Rocks