Tag Archives: Latin Folk

Ritmo con Lenguaje (Tempo and Vocabulary) is a Canadian music group who plays a number of Latin music, including traditional Cuban, South American, and Haitian. Produced in the middle-’90s by School of Toronto learners Rob Fekete, Dave O’Neill, and Julio Enriquez (all from the town of Hamilton), Ritmo con Lenguaje …

Detroit-based Latin jazz percussionist Francisco Mora (who in addition has recorded beneath the name Francisco Mora Catlett) has already established a surprisingly lengthy and exciting career. Given birth to in Washington, D.C., Mora gained his level in music at a Mexican university or college and worked like a program musician …

Two accomplished performers who’ve performed internationally aswell as throughout SOUTH USA constitute this long-running duet that performs the sugary, melodic, and sentimental folk music of Paraguay. Both guys are in the Chirigua tribe, owned by the guarani vocabulary group. These Indians resided in Central SOUTH USA for quite some time …

Puerto Rican multi-instrumentalist, educator, and longtime conductor from the Children’s Chorus of Puerto Rico Griselle Bou, along with Victor Meléndez and Annette Bou, earned a Best Latin Children’s Recording Grammy nomination for Canciones y Cantos — Juegos Infantiles del Folklore Puertorriqueño.

The pianist’s middle name was “Valentine” and someone could certainly have a nice swim through the French words in the surname of Eddie Bonnemere. That is all quite ideal musically with regards to a playing profession that progressed from the cathedral towards the cocktail lounge and went back towards the …

Jazz orchestra. Hispanic Musician Association of LA Big Music group: Repertory orchestra has hip Afro-Cuban music. Not used to national audiences. Value your attention.

Though los Gaiteros de San Jacinto from Colombia have been using gaitero music (the original type of cumbia) for quite some time, many of them, including Antonio “Toño” Fernández, lived in poverty and without recognition within their indigenous property. It wasn’t until 2003, whenever a film over the music arrived, …

The singer Cláudia had her biggest hits with “Jesus Cristo” (Roberto Carlos) and “Mais de 30” (Marcos Valle/Paulo Sérgio Valle). Her top was her functionality in the musical Evita, a global production staged in a number of countries. It continued to be open for just two consecutive years in Rio …

Pedro J. Gonzalez experienced an important part in Mexican-American music from the twentieth hundred years, as both a performer and, to a larger degree, a popularizer from the design. His best musical achievement was founding Los Madrugadores, which with numerous personnel recorded continuously through the 1930s, getting perhaps one of …

This Latin-jazz and progressive ensemble is led by multi-percussionist Tag Holen.