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The brainchild of Teddy Osei, a Ghanaian sax player, composer, and drummer who found London to review music, Osibisa was among the first African bands to win worldwide popularity. Their mixture of African (specifically highlife) and Caribbean forms produced them a feeling in the middle 70s and their recognition continues …

Ray Camacho is really a bandleader, trumpeter, and multi- instrumentalist whose music variety is legendary. He’s most widely known for the solitary “Si Si Puede,” released in 1970 by Ray Camacho & the Teardrops. It became a rallying cry for Latin People in america who resisted the Vietnam Battle in …

Based in LA, Quetzal can be an eclectic, unstable Mexican-American attire that combines a number of Latin affects (Mexican in addition to Cuban, Spanish, and South American) with rock and roll, soul, jazz, and folk. The music group doesn’t focus on mariachi, ranchero, or Tejano — three varieties of music …

Roberto Perera merges a vintage device, the folk harp, with modern noises on his new Mind Up release, Within the Feeling. In Perera’s able hands, the Paraguayan device becomes the automobile for an amazing selection of jazz, pop, Latin, and Afro-Caribbean rhythms coupled with arousing syncopation, uniting all the Americas …

The youngest of three brothers, Jorge Santana had his greatest musical success because the leader of the early-’70s Latin rock-band, Malo. Their self-titled debut recording, released in 1972, included the very best Twenty strike, “Suavecito.” In the beginning attracted to blues, Santana started playing guitar soon after moving, along with …

Drummer/percussionist Francisco Aguabella emigrated to NEW YORK from his indigenous Matanzas, Cuba — where African music was a custom — in 1957. He implemented a long type of Cuban drummers who produced their mark in the us: Chano Pozo, Patato Valdez, Candido, and Mongo Santamaria. Aguabella’s music fuses traditional African …

Although underappreciated and woefully overlooked throughout their initial tenure jointly, the great early-’70s outfit Cymande (pronounced Sah-mahn-day) was among the initial to merge African rhythms with rock, funk, reggae, and soul. Made up of people who hailed from such spectacular locales as Guyana, Jamaica, and St. Vincent, the nine-man lineup …

Azteca was a big Latin rock-band founded by percussionist Coke Escovedo (Apr 30, 1941 – July 13, 1986), formerly of Santana, in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA in early 1972. Escovedo earned his brother, vocalist/percussionist Pete Escovedo, and another percussionist Victor Pantoja; performers Errol Knowles, Wendy Haas, and Rico Reyes; horn …

One of rock and roll & roll’s most distinctive guitarists along with his clear but streamlined blues-influenced design, ZZ Best co-founder Billy Gibbons branched out into new music place in 2015 with the forming of his solo task Billy Gibbons & the BFG’s. which added an Afro-Cuban highlight to Gibbons’ …