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Bo Diddley’s music movie director and electric powered violinist from 1966 until 1967, along with a former sideman for Mongo Santamaria, Ray Barretto and Ike and Tina Turner, Eddie Drennon brought a Latin advantage towards the disco period from the 1970s. Credit scoring a significant disco strike, in 1975, with …
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The Bronx-based Charanga America was among the premier charangas in NEW YORK during the later ’70s and early ’80s, and even though the group’s profile waned over time as the dance fell out of style, the remained fitfully active on-stage in the decades that followed. Structured around bandleader/conguero George Maysonet …
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