| Pete Rodríguez | |
| Alias: | "Pete Rodriguez y su Conjunto" |
| Birth Date: | 16 April 1932 |
| Birth Place: | Bronx, New York City, U.S. |
| Genre: | Latin boogaloo |
| Occupation: | Musician |
Pete Rodriguez (April 16, 1932 – March 11, 2024) was an American pianist and bandleader born in The Bronx, New York, to Puerto Rican parents.
Rodriguez's band, Pete Rodríguez y Su Conjunto, specialized in Latin boogaloo. Their most successful song, "I Like It Like That" (1967), made it to the national Billboard charts and has since been covered several times, including by the Blackout All-Stars[1] for the soundtrack of the 1994 movie I Like It Like That. It received renewed exposure as the soundtrack to the main ident at Odeon Cinemas from 1998 to 2003.[2] It featured in the soundtrack of the video game on the fictitious Latin music radio station "Radio Espantoso". It, along with "Oh, That's Nice!" (1967), was then sampled in the 2018 song "I Like It" recorded by Cardi B, Bad Bunny, and J Balvin.[3] [4] "I Like It Like That" was also used in film Chef (2014).[5] "Oye Mira" was sampled in the 2021 song "Vielen Dank" recorded by the German hip-hop band 187 Strassenbande. It hit the #5 spot on Germany's Offizielle Deutsche Chart on May 28, 2021.
Rodriguez died on March 11, 2024, at the age of 91.[6]