NEW YORK — Jimmy Sabater, a singer and timbales player who was one of the architects of the hybrid Latin style known as boogaloo in the 1960s and ’70s, died Feb. 8 at his home in New York. He was 75.

Throughout the 1960s and '70s, Jimmy Sabater was the "velvet voice" of Latin soul. Sabater died on Wednesday, February 8 in New York City of natural causes, according to his son, Jimmy Sabater, Jr. He ...