Johnny Pacheco has been played on NTS in shows including Rachel Grace Almeida, featured first on 2 April 2015. Songs played include Quimbara, Yembe Laroco and Descarga Fania.

Johnny Pacheco (March 25,1935 - February 15, 2021) was a Dominican-American musician, arranger, composer, bandleader, and record producer. He became one of the leading exponents of a new dance in the late 1950s called the pachanga, a blend of Cuban rhythms and merengue, which propelled him to worldwide notoriety, and had an important role in the evolution of Latin music.

Pacheco inherited his passion for music from his father, Rafael Azarias Pacheco, who was the bandleader and clarinetist…