{"id":160831,"date":"2025-05-23T15:10:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T19:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/05\/23\/dan-storper-ceo-co-founder-of-putumayo-world-music-dies-at-74\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T15:10:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T19:10:25","slug":"dan-storper-ceo-co-founder-of-putumayo-world-music-dies-at-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/05\/23\/dan-storper-ceo-co-founder-of-putumayo-world-music-dies-at-74\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Storper, CEO & Co-Founder of Putumayo World Music, Dies at\u00a074"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tDan Storper, the co-founder and CEO of Putumayo World Music, died on Thursday (May 22) at 74, just two days after his birthday. Sources confirm that he passed peacefully at home in New Orleans, surrounded by family, after a battle with pancreatic cancer.<\/p>\n

\n\tJacob Edgar<\/strong>, founder of the label Cumbancha and Storper\u2019s longtime friend and colleague, shared a heartfelt statement with Billboard Espa\u00f1ol<\/em>: \u201cJust three days ago, I posted birthday wishes to Dan Storper, the founder of Putumayo World Music and my colleague and friend for nearly 30 years. I knew then that Dan was in his last days, but I couldn\u2019t imagine a world without him. He passed away yesterday after a battle with pancreatic cancer.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tEdgar, who began working with Storper in 1998 after being offered what he called \u201cthe dream job no one could dare dream of,\u201d described the late visionary as \u201can exceptional human,\u201d he wrote. \u201cFunny, energetic, passionate, micromanaging, and compulsive. A workaholic to the extreme. He could drive you crazy, but you loved him anyway because his heart was in the right place, and he was a good soul.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tPutumayo Founder Dan Storper Talks 30 Years of Celebrating World\u00a0Music\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n

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\n\tIn 2023, the globetrotting entrepreneur marked 30 years of his groundbreaking label.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut Storper\u2019s journey with Putumayo began long before the label existed. Originally launched in the 1970s in New York as a store selling handcrafted goods and musical finds from his travels in Latin America, Africa, India, and beyond, the shop gradually shifted its focus to music. By 1993, it had transformed into Putumayo World Music, a record label dedicated to curating global sounds for a wider audience, co-founding it with Michael Kraus.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe label became an international success, celebrated for its uplifting and culturally diverse compilations. Known for its signature brightly illustrated album covers and expertly sequenced playlists, Putumayo invited listeners to embark on musical journeys across continents, introducing many to the rhythms, traditions, and languages of faraway lands. Storper\u2019s leadership helped bridge cultural divides through the universal language of music.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn an interview with Billboard Espa\u00f1ol <\/em>in 2023, Storper reflected<\/a> on what he saw as Putumayo\u2019s mission. \u201cI look back with a certain measure of pride at the fact that we\u2019ve really introduced so many people to music that they were not familiar with \u2014 whether it be Latin, African, Caribbean, European, and more,\u201d Storper said at the time, as he reflected on his company\u2019s three-decade legacy. He also mentioned that Carlos Santana met several African bands through the Putumayo catalog that the guitarist later ended up collaborating with.<\/p>\n

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\n\tStorper also spoke fondly of how the label crafted its signature compilations. \u201cPutumayo\u2019s strength is not only selecting some great songs with that human touch, but putting together a sequence to take you on a musical journey, and as we say, it\u2019s guaranteed to make you feel good,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\n\tEven as his health declined, Storper\u2019s commitment to preserving global music remained unwavering. This April, he and Edgar donated their shared archive of 37,000 CDs \u2014 a collection built over more than 30 years \u2014 to the Harvard Music Library and the ARChive of Popular Music. \u201cHe and I listened to almost every one of those albums and scrawled notes over most of them marking out the tracks we thought had a chance to make into a Putumayo collection someday. I\u2019m glad to know that legacy will be preserved,\u201d said Edgar.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Dan Storper, the co-founder and CEO of Putumayo World Music, died on Thursday (May 22) at 74, just two days after his birthday. Sources confirm that he passed peacefully at home in New Orleans, surrounded by family, after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Jacob Edgar, founder of the label Cumbancha and Storper\u2019s longtime friend and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}