Photograph of Moncho Leña at Tropicana Ballroom

Photograph of Moncho Leña during performance with Hector Rivera at the Tropicana Ballroom in The Bronx, New York. The Tropicana Ballroom was one of many venues in The Bronx of the 1950s and 1960s that hosted a vibrant local Latin and jazz music scene. This earlier dynamic musical culture in the borough set the scene for the emergence of hip hop later on.