Jerry Rivera

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Jerry Rivera (born July 31, 1973, in Humacao, Puerto Rico) is a well known Grammy Award and Latin Grammy Award-nominated Puerto Rican salsa singer. <p>Rivera, born Geraldo Rivera Rodriguez in Humacao on the eastern coast of Puerto Rico, moved with his family as a baby to the Puerto Rican capital San Juan, where he received his primary and secondary education. His entire family consists of talented musicians, including tropical recording artists Edwin Rivera and younger sister Saned. Two other brothers, Ito and Jose, are professional instrumental musicians. <p>His parents, also musicians, inspired him to become a musician and as a child he would often accompany his mother Dominga, a singer, and father Edwin, a guitarist and director of Los Barones Trio, during their shows. <p>His favorite singers are Eddie Santiago, Lalo Rodriguez and, in particular, Frankie Ruiz. In 1986, when he was 13 years old, he accompanied his father who was performing at a hotel in Isla Verde, San Juan. Ruiz, who was a...