{{Infobox record label <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music --> | image = File:Logo de Discos fuentes.jpg | parent = | founded = 1934 | founder = Antonio Fuentes Estrada | status = <!--Leave blank unless "Inactive" or "Defunct"--> | distributor = | genre = Latin, cumbia, salsa | country = Colombia, South America | location = Medellín, Colombia | url = {{Official website|http://www.discosfuentes.com/}} }} '''Discos Fuentes''' is a record label based in Medellín, Colombia, South America. Founded in 1934 in Cartagena, Colombia, by Antonio Fuentes Estrada, Discos Fuentes was the country's first notable record label.<ref name="theworld">{{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}}</ref><ref name="salsa">{{cite web |url=http://www.salsaartists.com/index.php3?text=flabel |title=Discos Fuentes Record Label |accessdate=5 January 2008 |work=SalsaArtists.com}}</ref> The label was instrumental in introducing Colombia to such Afro-rhythm genres as cumbia, fandango, merengue, porro, salsa and rock and roll.<ref name="TONY">{{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 }}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> The label also helped forge the early careers for such musicians and composers as Guillermo Buitrago, Rafael Escalona, and Julio César Bovea.
Discos Fuentes has often been described as Colombia's version of "Motown", peaking in the 1960s and early 1970s.<ref name="theworld" /> The label achieved a series of firsts for Colombia: the first compilation album (1960) and the first Compact Disc release (1987).<ref name="salsa" />
After the death of the label's founder, Antonio Fuentes Estrada, in 1985, the company expanded into video production and purchased several other music labels, including Discos Tropical and Curro.<ref name="salsa" />
==US distribution== In the United States, the manufacture and/or distribution of Discos Fuentes releases was eventually handled by Miami Records, a Miami, Florida-based label specializing in Latin American music.<ref name="A brief history of Miami Records">{{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}}</ref> 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 labels as Columbia Records.<ref name="A brief history of Miami Records"/>
==Select artists== thumb|Discos Fuentes LP record <!--Note: Artists should be placed in alphabetical order based on the first word in the artist's or group's name.--> {{columns-list|colwidth=30em| *Afrosound/The Afrosound *Rodolfo Aicardi *Sonora Cordobesa *Edmundo Arias *Guillermo Buitrago *Joe Arroyo *Lucho Bermudez *Ariza y Su Combo *Lito Barrientos *Los Bestiales *Clímaco Sarmiento *Combo Los Galleros *El Combo Loco *Los Corraleros de Majagual *Rafael Escalona *Tata Guines *Fruko y sus Tesos/Fruko El Bueno *Rufo Garrido *Alfredo Gutiérrez *Eliseo Herrera *Fela Kuti *Andrés Landero *The Latin Brothers *Pedro Laza y sus Pelayeros *Los Lideres *Calixto Ochoa *Los Pico Pico *Joe Rodríguez y su Grupo Latino *Julio Bovea *La Sonora Carruseles *La Sonora Dinamita *Los Teen Agers *Michi Sarmiento y sus Bravos *Pastor López *Puerto Rican Power *Rodolfo y su Tipica RA7 *Wganda Kenya *Lisandro Meza *Catalino Tejedor *Aníbal Velásquez }}
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==External links== *[http://www.discosfuentes.com/ Official website]
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Category:Record labels established in 1934 Category:Colombian record labels Category:1934 establishments in Colombia
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