Editing Roberto Roena (section)

{{Short description|Puerto Rican musician (1940–2021)}}
{{family name hatnote|Roena|Vázquez|lang=Spanish}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Roberto Roena
| image       = Roberto_Roena_en_el_Teatro_Municipal_de_Cali,_Colombia.jpg
| image_size  = 
| caption     = Roena in 2011
| birth_date  = {{Birth date|1940|1|16}}
| birth_place = [[Mayagüez]], [[Puerto Rico]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|2021|9|23|1940|1|16}}
| death_place = [[Carolina, Puerto Rico]]
| nickname   = "El Gran Bailarín" ("The Great Dancer")
}}
'''Roberto Roena Vázquez''' (January 16, 1940 – September 23, 2021)<ref name="Hora 2021"/> was a Puerto Rican [[salsa music]] percussionist, orchestra leader, and dancer. Roena was one of the original members of Cortijo y su combo and later with [[El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico]]. He later became the leader of his own band, "Roberto Roena y Su Apollo Sound",<ref name="Larkin1995">{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|title=The Guinness encyclopedia of popular music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wdAzAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=8 June 2012|year=1995|publisher=Guinness Pub.|isbn=9781561591763|pages=1837–}}</ref> widely considered one of the best [[Latin]] [[Salsa music|salsa]] bands in Puerto Rico.  Roena had also been a long-time member of the [[Fania All Stars]], a salsa [[Supergroup (music)|supergroup]] that has enjoyed worldwide success since the 1970s.