Palmieri, Eddie

Palmieri, Eddie * December 15, 1936Palmieri, EddieEddie Palmieri Eddie Palmieri was born in New York City to a family of Puerto Rican and Italian ancestry. Like the families of a number of other major salsa stars, Palmieri’s family moved from Ponce, Puerto Rico to Spanish Harlem. His older brother Charlie had attained a professionally sophisticated competence on piano by his teens, but Palmieri and his older brother had a noncompetitive relationship to music and often practiced music together…