Tito Puente's specialty was MAMBO, a musical genre and dance style that originated in Cuba in the 1940s. It is a combination of Afro-Cuban music and rhythms with elements of jazz. Puente was a renowned Latin jazz musician and composer who was known as 'The King of MAMBO'. He was a Grammy Award-winning artist who released over 100 albums and was credited with popularizing Latin music in the United States.