Pete Rodriguez (April 16, 1934– March 07, 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[2] 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.
[6] "Oye Mira" was sampled in the 2021 song "Vielen Dank" recorded by the German hip-hop band 187 Strassenbande.