El Rego

Pioneering Benin funk and spirit musician Théophile Do-Rego, recognized to most as “El Rego,” was created on, may 3, 1936 in Porto-Novo, Dahomey. He started his profession in music in Burkina Faso as an associate from the L’Harmonie Voltaique orchestra. After time for Dahomey (today Benin) in 1961, Rego produced his first music group, La Filda, and produced his definitive device, the Commandos, five years afterwards in 1966. Sketching on hard R&B, spirit, and funk, Rego & the Commandos combined these American forms with rumba trappings, Latin percussion, wah-wah electric guitar, a lot of outrageous accordion, dense basslines, and traditional tribal rhythms to create the musical template that lots of African rings would stick to in ensuing years. In every, Rego and his rings created some eight SPs (a 7” structure), four LPs, four cassette tape albums, and five CDs, and undoubtedly performed countless dances, concerts, and night clubs throughout a 50-calendar year operate. In 2011 Daptone Information released Un Rego, which gathered twelve of Rego’s greatest 45s through the middle-’60s to the first ’70s, as chosen by Afro-soul collector and DJ Frank Gossner.