Janis Joplin (Whole Lotta Love, Ball and Chain) and Tito Puente. You definitely have excellent taste in Rock and Roll R&B an Latin Jazz.
I also get the reference to "What? Y'know, one day, Tito Puente will be dead, and you'll say, "Oh, I've been listening to him for years . . ." Alas, he and Señorita ¡Azucar! are both dead. But his last ten years of recordings are amazing.
Maybe a little Paquito de Rivera, too?