By Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, Music Orlando Puerta, a veteran of Warner Bros. Records, where he worked from 1997 to 2009 as director of dance marketing, and a longtime advocate of dance music, died in the early morning hours of Saturday (April 4) of an upper respiratory infection.
Although he was tested for the coronavirus, the results had not been returned before his passing. Puerta was a cancer survivor, as noted on his social media.
The Los Angeles-based Puerta most recently returned to running his own company Citrusonic LLC and Citrusonic Label Group, where he served as president.
He specialized in club promotion, marketing and A&R over his 30 years in the business and was known throughout the industry as a staunch Madonna
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