Tag Archives: Danny Flores

b. 11 July 1929, Santa Paula, California, USA, d. 19 Sept 2006, Huntington Seaside, California, USA. Flores’ parents had been immigrant Mexican field employees but he had taken to music, playing saxophone and composing modern Latin music, which he ably combined with nascent rock and roll. He performed beneath the …

An interesting small figure in the introduction of West Coastline rock & move along with a pioneer within the entry of Chicanos into rock music, Chuck Rio was the person behind the raunchy sax breaks within the Champs’ number 1 instrumental in 1958, “Tequila.” Given birth to Danny Flores, Rio …