# Discos Fuentes
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{{Infobox record label
| image = File:Logo de Discos fuentes.jpg
| parent =
| founded = 1934
| founder = Antonio Fuentes Estrada
| status =
| distributor =
| genre = [Latin](/source/Latin_music_(genre)), [cumbia](/source/cumbia), [salsa](/source/salsa_music)
| country = [Colombia](/source/Colombia), [South America](/source/South_America)
| location = [Medellín, Colombia](/source/Medell%C3%ADn%2C_Colombia)
| url = {{Official website|http://www.discosfuentes.com/}}
}}
'''Discos Fuentes''' is a [record label](/source/record_label) based in [Medellín](/source/Medell%C3%ADn%2C_Colombia), [Colombia](/source/Colombia), [South America](/source/South_America). Founded in 1934 in [Cartagena, Colombia](/source/Cartagena%2C_Colombia), by Antonio Fuentes Estrada, Discos Fuentes was the country's first notable record label.[{{cite web |url=http://www.theworld.org/?q=node/10682 |title=Global hit: The Golden Age of Discos Fuentes, 1960–76 |accessdate=5 January 2008 |date=June 2007 |work=The World}}][{{cite web |url=http://www.salsaartists.com/index.php3?text=flabel |title=Discos Fuentes Record Label |accessdate=5 January 2008 |work=SalsaArtists.com}}] The label was instrumental in introducing Colombia to such Afro-rhythm genres as [cumbia](/source/cumbia), [fandango](/source/fandango), [merengue](/source/merengue_music), [porro](/source/porro), [salsa](/source/salsa_music) and [rock and roll](/source/rock_and_roll).[{{cite web |url=http://www.timeout.com/newyork/articles/music/1821/colombia-the-golden-age-of-discos-fuentes-196076 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130204122850/http://www.timeout.com/newyork/articles/music/1821/colombia-the-golden-age-of-discos-fuentes-196076 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-02-04 |title=Album review: Colombia! The Golden Age of Discos Fuentes, 1960–76 |accessdate=5 January 2008 |author=K. Leander Williams |date=March 2007 |work=Time Out New York }}][{{Cite web |last=Vega |first=Luis Daniel |title=Una idea descabellada: instantáneas del rock en Bogotá (1957 - 1975) |url=https://bibliotecadigitaldebogota.gov.co/resources/3648839/ |access-date=2024-04-25 |website=bibliotecadigitaldebogota.gov.co |language=es}}] The label also helped forge the early careers for such musicians and composers as [Guillermo Buitrago](/source/Guillermo_Buitrago), [Rafael Escalona](/source/Rafael_Escalona), and Julio César Bovea.
Discos Fuentes has often been described as Colombia's version of "[Motown](/source/Motown)", peaking in the 1960s and early 1970s.[{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UykEAAAAMBAJ&q=%22miami+records%22&pg=PA31 |title=A brief history of Miami Records |date=10 July 1965 |accessdate=January 23, 2013}}] Formed in 1950 by Colombian immigrant, Carlos Diaz-Granados, Sr., Miami Records also managed the manufacture and/or distribution of Latin music for other South American labels as well as for such [American](/source/United_States) labels as [Columbia Records](/source/Columbia_Records).