Famous People with Name Tite

Tite Curet Alonso            Origin/Culture/Country: Jamaican

Tite Curet Alonso: was a renowned composer of over 2,000 salsa songs.After he graduated from high school, he enrolled in the University of Puerto Rico where he studied journalism and sociology. He worked for the United States Postal Service, a job which he held for more than twenty years. All the while he continued to compose songs. In 1960 he moved to New York City and worked for the newspaper "La Prensa" as a sports journalist. In 1965, Alonso met salsa singer Joe Quijano who recorded Alonso's Efectivamente which became a hit. Alonso developed a unique style of his own which is known as "salsa with a conscience". He wrote songs about social and romantic themes which told about the poor blacks and the hardships that they faced. He also focused many of his songs on what he called the beauty of the black caribbeans.[3]

Luis Enrique "Tite" Arroyo,            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Luis Enrique "Tite" Arroyo,: born on February 18, 1927 in Peñuelas, Puerto Rico, is a former Major League Baseball pitcher.

Gheorghe Titeica            Origin/Culture/Country: Romanian

Gheorghe Titeica: was a Romanian mathematician with important contributions in geometry. He is recognized as the founder of the Romanian school of differential geometry.

Giedrius Titenis            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Giedrius Titenis: is a swimmer from Lithuania. He participated in the 2008 Summer Olympics and won bronze in the 2009 World Aquatics Championships.