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Does anyone have a Favorite Latin music artists they want to share?

Ken Cooke - 9-20-2008 at 10:57 AM

To kick things off, I want to share about Felipe Pelaez. Pelaez is a native of Northern Colombia - the city of Barranquilla to be exact. His music style/genre is Vallenato. Felipe has a killer voice, and his backing musicians are top-notch.

Augusto Polo Campos

woody with a view - 9-20-2008 at 11:24 AM

My wife's father is a cousin to this man. i don't really get into the older Peruvian crooners, but you might dig it.:lol:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Polo_Campos

not to go off topic but on her dads side (Polo) they can trace their lineage all the way to the first Polo to arrive in Peru, Juan Polo de Ondegardo.

on mom's side (Montero), mom's great grandfather was a president of Peru, Lizardo Montero.



[Edited on 9-20-2008 by woody in ob]

BajaGringo - 9-20-2008 at 11:26 AM

A few of my favorites:

Aleks Syntek
Alex Ubago
Cafe Tacuba
Charly Garica
Diego Torres
Dunca Dhu
Enanitos Verdes
Eros Ramazzotti
Fey
Fito Paez
Franco DeVita
Gustavo Cerati
Ilan Chester
Juan Luis Guerra
Marcos Llunas
Moenia
Nicho Hinojosa
Patricia Sosa
Seru Giran
Son by Four

capt. mike - 9-20-2008 at 01:46 PM

chango is good

shari - 9-20-2008 at 01:49 PM

I LOVE MANA...when I first heard them many years ago....I thought it was Sting singing in spanish....these guys rock and I love their lyrics...all their music is wonderful. I also like Elefante and Julieta Venega from TJ.

Shark18 - 9-20-2008 at 02:02 PM

Cuco Sánchez, descanse en paz .


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zeA1O_avxM&feature=relat...

Bob H - 9-20-2008 at 02:27 PM

Pancho Sanchez! You will hear the best Salsa Cubano ever heard on this earth. Check out a CD called "Conga Blue". You will not be disappointed.

And his new CD.... Out of Sight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BjSCBDhlxY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV7hy7FCT9E

He can teach also...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNQ3dLJKgro

Bob H



[Edited on 9-20-2008 by Bob H]

VICENTE FERNANDEZ

ELINVESTIG8R - 9-20-2008 at 02:45 PM

Bob H - 9-20-2008 at 02:45 PM

More Pancho Sanchez....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7TbKGO4liM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SvTrptAuvs

Bob H

[Edited on 9-20-2008 by Bob H]

Skeet/Loreto - 9-20-2008 at 02:54 PM

Viciki Carr

Ken Cooke - 9-20-2008 at 02:56 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Skeet/Loreto
Viciki Carr


Who is that? :?:

Makes us feel young...Don't it Skeet

Dave - 9-20-2008 at 03:02 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Ken Cooke
Quote:
Originally posted by Skeet/Loreto
Viciki Carr


Who is that? :?:

To be fair... It's Vikki

Dave - 9-20-2008 at 03:05 PM

http://www.vikkicarr.net/

Music

tehag - 9-20-2008 at 03:50 PM

Ska Cubano, Gotan Project, Novalina, Gypsy Kings, Buena Vista Social Club, Johny Chingas, Texas Tornados

lingililingili - 9-20-2008 at 04:08 PM

Luis Miguel

woody with a view - 9-20-2008 at 04:22 PM

shakira

edit::o

[Edited on 9-20-2008 by woody in ob]

ecomujeres - 9-20-2008 at 04:25 PM

A few more:

Los Mocosos (group out of San Francisco, CA)--bilingual synthesis of various musical styles. You can sample their work on the net.

Guardabarranco (brother and sister from Nicaragua)--folk, political music

Mercedes Sosa (por supuesto)--argentina, folk music or "nueva cancion"

Ana Gabriel (una mexicana)

Linda Ronstadt

DENNIS - 9-20-2008 at 04:27 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Shark18
Cuco Sánchez, descanse en paz .




Great choice. I whole-heartedly agree. Passed on around ten years back,

Oh, well, back to the living....Carlos Santana. Did somebody already mention him?

DENNIS - 9-20-2008 at 04:28 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by ecomujeres
Linda Ronstadt


Another great choice.

BajaGringo - 9-20-2008 at 04:50 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by ecomujeres
Mercedes Sosa (por supuesto)--argentina, folk music or "nueva cancion"


Mercedes Sosa is a "Tucumana" from the northwest province in Argentina and where I went as a foreign exchange student at the age of 16 for a year more moons ago than I can count. Had a chance to meet her in person - a very charming and talented woman that is the voice and soul of her pueblo...

Packoderm - 9-20-2008 at 04:58 PM

Texas Tornadoes is about as close as it's going to get as far as what I have in my collection.





[Edited on 9/21/2008 by Packoderm]

SDRonni - 9-20-2008 at 05:05 PM

Marc Anthony

DENNIS - 9-20-2008 at 05:05 PM

You wanna hear some real Latin music, go to a High Mass in Saint Peters Cathedral. Wherever the Pope walks, there are a thousand voices that follow him around singing in Latin. Very exciting...I would imagine. Saw it on Discovery channel.

Barry A. - 9-20-2008 at 05:07 PM

For outstanding guitar-----Antonio Bribiesca "La Guitarra de Mexico"

Bud & Travis "Latin Album"

[Edited on 9-21-2008 by Barry A.]

Don Alley - 9-20-2008 at 05:10 PM

I'll add Los Tigres del Norte. And Lila Downs.

bajabound2005 - 9-20-2008 at 05:17 PM

Jorge Drexler -- from Uruguay.

Loretana - 9-20-2008 at 05:31 PM

Still loving...
Los Lonely Boys

Up and coming

Los Cafres.....Reggae Argentino :dudette:

capt. mike - 9-20-2008 at 05:43 PM

Dennis - you are without a doubt a nut case.
i need to have a few pops with you some time. bring the drums - whatever.

latin music with the Pope. yeah!!:lol::lol::lol:

BajaGringo - 9-20-2008 at 06:02 PM

I'll bring my congas and bongos...

jeans - 9-20-2008 at 06:09 PM

Tribalistas - from Rio De Janiero

vacaenbaja - 9-20-2008 at 10:04 PM

Buenavista Social Club Album and contributing individuals
Julio Jaramillo
Olimpo Card##as
Pedro Vargas

Paula - 9-20-2008 at 11:35 PM

A little norteno:

Los Nietos
Grupo Primavera
Sergio Vega
Miguel y Miguel
Conjunto Bernal

Muy Romantica:

Trio Los Panchos
Los Tres Caballeros (Chamin Correa)


Vintage Oaxacan:

Trio Montealban

k-rico - 9-21-2008 at 08:00 AM

Mexican Classics - Los Panchos





[Edited on 9-21-2008 by k-rico]

mulegemichael - 9-21-2008 at 09:05 AM

Alejandro Fernandez, The Gipsy Kings, Miguel de Hoyos; all good stuff

JaraHurd - 9-21-2008 at 09:40 AM

Julieta Venegas
Miguel Bose
Bebe
Juan Luis Guerra
Daddy Yankee
Ivy Queen
Laura Pausini (Italian but some Spanish songs)
Ana Torroja/Mecano
Shakira (her Spanish stuff)
Wisin y Yandel. . .

Yes, I do like SOME reggaeton..but not most of it..

Pandora is a great way to find new music

bajabeachbabe - 9-21-2008 at 01:33 PM

I have two personal radio stations I created on Pandora.com, one is a Ricky Martin station and the other is Los Tigres de Norte. Pandora adds other similar artists and you get to find lots of new (and some old) musicians.

Some of my other favorites are Lila Downs and Herzon (from Loreto).

I will admit, though, that after listening to my Los Tigres de Norte station I often have a craving for bratwurst and Pacifico! Must be the accordian and polka beat :lol:

Oso - 9-21-2008 at 01:49 PM

Definite ditto on Lila Downs, 3 (or more) languages and what a range! I have 4 of her CDs so far.

Also like Molotov for "modern" stuff.

Loved the Texas Tornadoes, but now with Freddy gone I doubt the rest are still together. I have a big collection of his stuff going way back to LPs when he was Baldemar Huerta.

For the oldies, the list is too long... ALL the old trios etc.

wake up call

BFS - 9-21-2008 at 05:12 PM

For my early am mate sessions I always listen to the one and only Jorge Cafrune

Jose Jose!!

thebajarunner - 9-21-2008 at 05:28 PM

In his prime his strong but mellow voice was absolutely the best.
Too bad the booze and the broads brought him down. And then, the comeback was even better.

Nicely profiled last week on Univision.

Still around, but that great voice is literally a tiny, raspy whisper.

So sad.

DENNIS - 9-21-2008 at 05:41 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by thebajarunner
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Too bad the booze and the broads brought him down.
So sad.



Yes Yes........Terrible way to go. And his memories of the carnage must be unbearable. :lol:

Not trying to disparage your sentiment, Runner but, we are what we did to ourselves. No more...no less. Booze and broads didn't bring him anywhere he didn't want to be.
He, and we, is what he, and we, is. Don't feel bad for him.

vandenberg - 9-21-2008 at 06:21 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by DENNIS

He, and we, is what he, and we, is. Don't feel bad for me.


Very profound.

I want that on my tombstone.:saint:

LOSARIPES - 9-22-2008 at 01:46 AM

Tania Libertad....... check her out

Don Alley - 9-22-2008 at 08:04 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by bajabeachbabe
I have two personal radio stations I created on Pandora.com, one is a Ricky Martin station and the other is Los Tigres de Norte. Pandora adds other similar artists and you get to find lots of new (and some old) musicians.

Some of my other favorites are Lila Downs and Herzon (from Loreto).

I will admit, though, that after listening to my Los Tigres de Norte station I often have a craving for bratwurst and Pacifico! Must be the accordian and polka beat :lol:


I recently checked out Pandora and liked it, but I spend 10 months of the year in Loreto and Pandora is blocked overseas, and may go out of business soon due to the new royalty rates for internet radio.

I have, however, upgraded to iTunes 8 with a similar "artificial intelligence" system called Genius. It's new, and in it's first version, but does give hints on new music to acquire. However, some posters here have reported problems with the upgrade, although I've had none on my Mac.

I'm looking forward to being back in Loreto, dining at Biznaga and hearing Herzon play.

The Gull - 9-22-2008 at 10:45 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Oso
Definite ditto on Lila Downs, 3 (or more) languages and what a range! I have 4 of her CDs so far.

Also like Molotov for "modern" stuff.

Loved the Texas Tornadoes, but now with Freddy gone I doubt the rest are still together. I have a big collection of his stuff going way back to LPs when he was Baldemar Huerta.

For the oldies, the list is too long... ALL the old trios etc.


Lila performed last night at the Hollywood Bowl with Spearhead and Ozomatli. Great concert. She was really revved up. Her Paloma Negra brought the house down.

The Gull - 9-22-2008 at 11:00 AM

Expert on lots of things, are you?

Please list the names of the artists and the burrito joints where they are performing for the next 3 months.

If you cannot do as requested, then you must remove the NO from your username and add in PURE.

This isn't a burrito joint...

[Edited on 9-23-2008 by The Gull]

patsydiamo - 9-22-2008 at 11:08 AM

PERLA BATTALA---she has the voice of an angel.:bounce:

Martyman - 9-22-2008 at 11:41 AM

It is Poncho Sanchez (not Pancho). Mongo Santamaria, Willie Colon.
Whatever happened to Dr. Loco and the Rockin' Jalapenos?

wsdunc - 9-22-2008 at 11:41 AM

Susana Baca-self titled CD

Oso - 9-22-2008 at 04:16 PM

Life Is looking up for singer Lila Downs

LOS ANGELES - Lila Downs is an artist who always seemed to have her act together. The Mexican-American singer has a stunning voice, a confident multicultural vision grounded in her Indian roots and a successful 15-year career in global music circles.

What she doesn´t have is a child.

Downs faced her inability to conceive children as she approached her 40th birthday in September. Depressed and drinking, she fell apart.

"What ... the hell am I doing in this life if I can´t have children?" she asked herself. "That´s the whole point of living as a woman."

Back home in her beloved Oaxaca, the deteriorating political situation wracked by a violent teachers strike two years ago made matters worse. As a champion of her culture, she felt powerless and angry, and she started taking it out on her band. Once, in the middle of a concert in the Canary Islands, she walked off the stage, thinking, "You guys work it out yourselves. See how far you get without me."

"The devil came out in me," recalled Downs, who performs Sunday at Hollywood Bowl with Ozomatli and others as part of the world music series of KCRW, a southern California National Public Radio affiliate.

"I was engendering the anger in my band and suddenly everybody started fighting. Oooh, yeah, it´s very interesting, because the seed of evil, I can see how it infects things," she said.

Today, Downs has won her fight with the devil. She laughs frequently, even while discussing personal problems. She dresses in a sexier way, sporting a short skirt to help announce the recent Latin Grammy nominations at the House of Blues in West Hollywood.

And she´s started plucking eyebrows that she used to keep thick, a la artist Frida Kahlo, without realizing the look made her feel manly, even fearsome.

"It´s liberating to suddenly pluck your eyebrows and be more feminine," she said.

But Downs´ biggest transformation is in her music.

Her new album, "Shake Away," marks a pinnacle in her attempts to find a natural fusion of disparate strains of music and different sides of herself. The title tells you where she´s at. She took that evil and shook it off.

Her previous album makes more sense now too.

"La cantina" (2006) was a collection of Mexican "rancheras," drinking songs for broken-hearted people. It was her release for all that pain, though she didn´t talk about it much at the time. Even now, when she sings a snippet from the Cuco Sánchez classic "La cama de piedra" ("Bed of Stone") in her trademark deep voice, she can summon profound sadness.

"From the cantina to the cure" - that´s a line she´s using to describe what has happened to her between albums.

The "cure" refers, in part, to the healing she underwent with a "curandera" from Oaxaca, Doña Queta. The famed folk healer and midwife prescribed a regimen of herbal teas and massage to awaken her femininity.

"I really did feel better physically after Queta gave me those teas," said Downs during a recent interview in West Hollywood. "She has the wisdom you can´t find in Western medicine. She knows the connection between the physical, the emotional and the spiritual, and that´s something you will not find in the scientific world."

With long braids, colorful woven clothing and strong sense of mysticism, Downs´ artistic persona is immersed in the indigenous culture of Oaxaca. Her early albums in the mid-to-late 1990s were essentially showcases for the folkloric music of the region southeast of Mexico City, less popular here than the "norteña," banda and mariachi music from other parts of Mexico.

Downs´ importance, however, lies with her ability to transform folk tradition into a modern, living genre - what she calls "re-conceiving" the music. She now uses it as part of a Pan-American palette of sounds that includes blues, jazz and rock, reflecting the half of her lineage inherited from her Scottish-American father.

Multicultural fusions are not a matter of taking something from column A and something from column B, which can sound self-consciously eclectic. With the new album, Downs and Paul Cohen, her husband and longtime collaborator, finally have hit on a natural formula. But like the instinctive recipes of great cooks, they can´t quite tell you how it´s done.

"Musically, it´s kind of hard to explain things anymore because it flows so much," Downs said.

The evolution was helped by the couple´s move a few years ago from Mexico City to New York, where Downs and Cohen live in an apartment in Chinatown. The city´s multinational melange has energized her band, La Milagrosa, which includes a drummer from Chile, a guitarist from Venezuela, a bassist from St. Louis and percussionists from Colombia and Cuba.

"New York City is the place where musicians are willing to risk more," said Downs, who co-writes all the music with her husband-arranger. "You can find a musician from Morocco or Paris or Colombia, and they´re willing to put in their bid for 200 bucks a session and see what happens when coming together with different artists from different cultures."

The album´s open, expansive feel is enhanced by Downs´ duets with guest singers, including Mari from Spain´s flamenco-chill band Chambao, Rubén Albarrán of Mexico´s Café Tacuba and New Mexico-born Raul Midon on a tribal reworking of Carlos Santana´s "Black Magic Woman."

After 15 years, Downs remains one of the most interesting and compelling artists from Mexico. She tours constantly throughout the world and even performed at the Oscars in 2003, singing a duet with Brazil´s Caetano Veloso on "Burn It Blue," a nominated song from the movie "Frida," to which she contributed other music.

Through it all, Cohen has been by her side, sharing dreams for a better world.

"I´ve become a much more peaceful person, thanks to him," Downs said, laughing again.

Keeping the cultural torch ablaze hasn´t been easy. Even Mexicans don´t think it´s hip to do Mexican music these days.

"Swimming against the current can be hard work because you have to deal with this notion that what we´re doing is somehow backward," Downs said.

"I come from a culture that is very negative and very ashamed in many ways. The Mixtec people I meet in New York, they´re afraid to say they´re Mexican. And I try to tell them, `No, keep your heads high. We have to show that we, too, are worth something here."

By AGUSTIN GURZA Los Angeles Times

tripledigitken - 9-22-2008 at 04:37 PM

Another vote for Lila Downs, Ozomatli, Mana, Freddy Fender, Molatov, and Mongo Santamaria.

Some more...

Ruben Blades (Actor, Lawyer and very good Salsa Vocalist)
Ruben Ramos (Vocalist from Sugarland, Texas)
Los Lobos (Just another band from East LA)
Orlando Cachaito Lopez ( The hearbeat of Buena Vista Social Club) check out his release.. Cachaito
Hugh Masakala (Latin Jazz Trumpeter)

Ken

movinguy - 9-22-2008 at 07:01 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by lingililingili
Luis Miguel


I'm pretty sure I was the only gringo out of about 20,000 at his concert last night in SD.

A bit dramatic but pretty good overall . . . :cool:

windgrrl - 9-22-2008 at 07:07 PM

Oscar de Leon - King of Salsa!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_D'Le%C3%B3n

Jesse Cooke - flamenco style
http://www.jessecook.com/

Ottmar Liebert - Canadian
http://www.lunanegra.com/index.php

Afro-Cuban All Stars, Elias Ochoa, Celia Cruz, Otmara Profuondo & Ibrahim Ferrer - Cuban Classics (ask me if you want more!), sample:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE1ijoIxMo0

The Mexican trio of gentlemen who make the rounds and seranade the tables at the Los Barriles joints!


...and of course, the transcendental C. Santana tops my list...well Los Lobos is not far below!

windgrrl - 9-22-2008 at 07:15 PM

Just one more!

Cold Play and Buena Vista Social Club:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k85X3ZGwYtk

Muy Sabroso!

Roasty - 9-22-2008 at 10:52 PM

Wow it took 3 pages before Ruben Blades got a mention!
His Fania stuff is top-draw, also for people who like compilations, a label from the UK "Soundway" has two compilations out 1. Colombia "The Golden Age of Disco's Fuentes" (featuring some great 60's and 70's "Fuentes" vinyl classics) 2. Panama (again classics from yesterday from Panama). Great stuff for under the palapa with a cold one - or three !

larry - 9-22-2008 at 11:03 PM

Quote:

Miguel y Miguel




Performers of one of the greatest corridos--or at least one of my faves--Sonora y sus Ojos Negros

larry - 9-22-2008 at 11:30 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by The Gull
Expert on lots of things, are you?

Please list the names of the artists and the burrito joints where they are performing for the next 3 months.

If you cannot do as requested, then you must remove the NO from your username and add in PURE.


Let me answer on behalf of nobullchit since you seem to be calling into doubt his innocent statement in an unfriendly way.

Regional Mexican artists (durangense, banda, norteno, sierreno) with hit records tour regularly in the United States. It is as lucrative a market for them as Mexico. They perform at fairgrounds concerts and jaripeos (music with rodeo performances) and at clubs. Frequently those clubs are Mexican restaurants during the day and live music clubs on weekend nights. And although some of these may be "burrito joints" admission to these shows is usually $30-50.

As an example, in the last year I have seen the following highlevel Mexican artists at El Rancho Restaurant in Concord, California: Julio Preciado y su Banda, Los Dareyes de la Sierra, German Lizarraga y sus Estrellas de Sinaloa, and El Potro de Sinaloa. Over the past ten years, I have seen most of the major stars of regional Mexican music in Northern California.

Another restaurant here in the Bay Area that presents touring Mexican acts is La Finca in Bay Point/Pittsburg. The combo of Mexican restaurant/club is even more common in areas of the US where there is a smaller Mexican population that in California.

As for asking for artist itineraries three months in advance, these shows are generally not booked that far in advance and are usually advertised only 7-10 days in advance.

I hope that clarifies things Gull. So let's allow our friend to use whatever name he likes.

Larry

The Gull - 9-23-2008 at 05:30 AM

Embrace who you wish.

I never doubted that performances of all types are held at small locations. I saw the Stones at the Wiltern a few years back and Canned Heat at a bar on Cannery Row in Monterey about five years ago.

What I believe is that some posters need removal and that is NOBULLchit.

[Edited on 9-23-2008 by The Gull]

larry - 9-23-2008 at 08:04 AM

I guess there is some personal bad blood--I did not pick up on that for the simple comment you responded to.