Founder
]Ralph Mercado Jr. (September 29, 1941 – March 10, 2009) was born in Brooklyn to a Puerto Rican mother and Dominican father, Mr. Mercado began in the music business as a teenager, organizing parties and dances as president of a neighborhood social club. In the 1960s, he promoted R & B and soul artists like James Brown and twinned them with Latin artists like Mongo Santamaria. In the 1980s-1990s, Mercado was a promoter of Latin American music — Latin Jazz, Latin rock, merengue and salsa — establishing a network of businesses that included promoting concerts, managing artists, Radio Mundo Musical (RMM) as gigantic as the Fania Records label.
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