Hi everybody, my name is Manny Cepeda and I am a composer, lyricist and arranger of Tropical style music. I was giving this talent by God trough my family (a fifth generation music family) and I have always felt that if I did not do music I would be commiting a sin. After all, God placed this talent in my hands and I must do him right. What it takes to make a song? how do you come up with the lyrics, and what about the arrangement to accompany your song. I've been doing this now for over 50 years and I feel I can give you some insight on the subject.

Listen to some of my compositions and let me know if you are interested in learning more about how I created the song. I am also looking for companies who would like to sign or publish my work. I have intentionally created these works to be very commercial with a potential of being # 1 in the Tropical music genre.

I grew up with such amazing Salsa artists such as Ismael Rivera, El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico, Eddie Palmieri, Tito Puente, Joe Cuba to say just a few. I've been playing Tropical music here in San Diego now for about 3 years. I notice that the type of Tropical music played here is more Latin Jazz and not so much Tropical. The few bands that are performing such as Rico Tumbao have a great sound and do some neat classic salsa but other than Rico Tumbao and my band "Ritmo Caribe" the other bands don't really play tropical at all. It sound pretty square and with no groove what so ever. I'm requested a lot here and when people listen to us play they always come up and say, "we never heard anything like this in San Diego". Well, the reason being why the syncopations that we use and the way we write our musical arrangements. Let me hear from people who have experience the same things as I have.