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Los Chicos certainly are a popular rhumba music group from Spain whose legacy spans many years and whose success peaked through the early to mid-’80s. The band’s musical design evolved over time, fusing rhumba flamenca with pop/rock and roll to varying levels, and was frequently in comparison to that of …

Donald Kachamba continues to be attracting attention along with his music virtuosity since his early teenagers when he was called “the Malawian Mozart”. Regarding his sibling, Daniel (1947–1987), he brought the metropolitan dance music of southern Africa towards the global stage as the Kachamba Brothers. Since his brother’s loss of …

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 …

The Latin American dance craze from the 1940s spread to Japan through the playing of Tokyo Cuban Boys. Greater than a half a hundred years later on, the 19-piece is constantly on the inspire dancing using their mixture of mambos, boleros, and cha cha chas.

Selma Reis is a talented singer who’s focused on a private repertory. Her family members had a solid enthusiasm for serestas, that was fundamental for the shaping of her like for music. Reis researched vocal technique in Brazil and France. In 1987 she documented her first recording, Selma Reis (self-employed). …

The Runn Family members play an attractive mixture of music, combining traditional mbira-based melodies with reggae and rhumba and so are especially known for his or her sizzling brass section. Created in the first ’80s, they accomplished prominence using the launch of their solitary, “Hachina Wekutamba Naye,” which mourned the …

Led by attention-shunning John Chibadura, the Tembo Brothers have grown to be perhaps one of the most popular youthful rings in Zimbabwe, playing the mbira-rhumba fusion referred to as rumbira. The music group shaped in 1985 and instantly drew attention due to Chibadura’s intense tone of voice and achingly poignant …

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.