Tag Archives: Afro-Cuban

Bass participant and vocalist Sammy Kasule may be the head of Makonde, a Stockholm-based music group comprised of music artists from Sweden, Zaire, and Gambia. Merging components of African soukous and Afro-Cuban rhythms, the group is well known because of its slick, pop-oriented audio. Kasule initially seduced attention as an …

The Star Music group de Dakar was formed in 1960 to celebrate the independence of Senegal, however, not only achieved it start to see the birth of a country, in addition, it ushered in a fresh wave of local bands who played Cuban dance music. The Celebrity Band — never …

Percussionist, composer, and arranger Roberto Juan Rodriguez, whose exclusive blending of Latin and Jewish music provides essentially created a complete new hybrid, was created in Cuba, the kid of veteran horn participant Roberto Luis Rodriguez. Younger Rodriguez examined violin, piano, and trumpet in Havana, and discovered to try out drums …

A member of family of influential Cuban composer and pianist Ignacio Cervantes, Chispa (or “the Spark”) has led his 13-piece orchestra, Chispa con Los Cómplices, through a mixture of traditional salsa as well as the newer funk-influenced timba design since the later ’90s. Their initial record, Mew Pa’ Que Vea, …

Often weighed against Philadelphia-born trumpet participant Ziggy Elman (1914-1968), Julio Cueva played an important part in the evolution of Afro-Cuban music. The first choice of an extremely successful band, through the 1940s, he helped to introduce such later on Afro-Cuban celebrities as vocalist Orlando “Cascarita” Guerra and pianist/arranger Rene Hernandez. …

Johnson moved to Senegal in the 1950s and enjoyed massive recognition like a horn participant with both Star Band as well as the Super Etoile Music group.

Founded like a stylistically wide-ranging Latin-themed part task of Martin Perna of Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, Ocote Soul Seems often includes Adrian Quesada of Grupo Fantasma and it is associated with Eighteenth Street Lounge Music, the label of Thievery Corporation. Perna (vocals, saxophone, flute, acoustic guitar, body organ, percussion), who founded …

Bandleader, music movie director, arranger, and business lead vocalist of 14-piece music group Charanga Habanera, David Calzado offers played an important part in the development of contemporary Cuban music. Although he was pressured to reorganize the group in 1997, Calzado offers stayed among Cuba’s most important music artists. Under his …

Affectionately nicknamed “Rapindey,” Marcelino Guerra enjoyed tremendous longevity among the premier segunda voz (second voice, or harmony) singers in Cuban music. Also, his numerous track compositions (chiefly in the bolero and child forms) helped bring about filin, a method which bridged the space between Cuban well-known music as well as …

Leadership from the active Grupo Afrocuba continues to be passed on just like a body fat stalk of sugarcane among brilliant instrumentalists who also inevitably first go through the rates of band regular membership. Saxophonist Nicolas Reinoso was the initial movie director of the group, starting in 1977 with the …