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Izzy Sanabria

real name Israel Sanabria

Izzy Sanabria is credited on 1,253 pressings across 269 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1961–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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1,253

Credits

269

Albums

7

Decades active

85

In collections

Biography

Art director, graphic designer and photographer, responsible for many groundbreaking album cover designs of Salsa and mambo records that helped shape the visual identity of Fania Records, Alegre Records and other important Latin labels; former editor of Latin New York Magazine ("Latin N.Y.").
As a host of the early 1970s TV show “Salsa,” Sanabria is also credited for spreading and establishing the term as a denomination for Afro-Cuban and NuYorican music of the era.
Thus, he also goes by the moniker “Mr. Salsa.”

Bio from Discogs

Credited work

1,253 releases · 269 albums · active 1961–2025

  • Other credits · 1,443
  • Mastering · 17
  • Performance · 2
  • Production · 1

Studios: Good Vibrations Sound Studios · Broadway Recording Studios · La Tierra Sound Studios · Impact Sound Studio

Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

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