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Archive Home > 2009 > March > 13 > Mercado shaped careers of Latin stars

Mercado shaped careers of Latin stars

By Douglas Martin / The Bulletin
March 13, 2009

Ralph Mercado, a promoter who took his passion for Latin music and built an empire around it, not only staging concerts but creating a recording and publishing label, a film and video company, and nightclubs and restaurants, died Tuesday in Hackensack, N.J. He was 67.

The cause was cancer, said....

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