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Montuno Swing - San Francisco
Montuno Swing is a salsa band that produces a big crisp sound, one of the Bay Area's most popular orquestas. Montuno Swing is setting the bar even higher for live music in the SF Bay Area. We are a salsa band composed of world-class musicians, whom many are also band leaders as well!
Lucky 7 Mambo - Los Angeles
Inspired by the multi-ethnic music-fusion of 1950s and 60s’ Spanish Harlem, "Lucky 7 Mambo" brings to the west coast the high energy sounds of the classic mambo. "Lucky 7 Mambo" features the haunting harmonies of the vibraphone, an unlikely instrument now, as much as it was in the 50s and 60s. This uniquely American-made style draws the best of the Cuban son, African-American jazz and Puerto Rican soul.
Pacific Mambo Orquesta - San Francisco
Pacific Mambo Orchestra has changed the salsa landscape of the San Francisco Bay Area. This 19-person band plays one set on Mondays, from 9:30 to 11pm, at Café Cocomo in San Francisco. It plays salsa, mambo, bolero and cha-cha with the unique and full sound only a well-synchronized group of talented musicians can. Many are well-known in the salsa scene while others are less so, but one exposure to their collective sound makes it evident that every single member is a contributing and solid part of the whole.
Willie Colon
Willie Colón, Bronx-born of Puerto Rican grandparents, has fused his musical talent, his passion for humanity, and his community and political activism into an extraordinary, multifaceted career.
His achievements in all his activities are widely recognized. As musician, composer, arranger, singer, and trombonist, as well as producer and director, Colón still holds the all time record for sales, he has created 40 productions that have sold more than thirty million records worldwide. His collaboration with Ruben Blades, "Siembra", is the biggest selling album of all time for this genre. His collaboration with Hector LaVoe was the milestone that spread this fusion of tropical/urban music throughout Latin America. He is a strong catalog sale artist, whose songs are included in almost every Salsa artist’s repertoire.
Pepe y su Orquesta - San Francisco
En este nuevo milenio, en el cual el género musical Salsa, se mantiene a la vanguardia en superación musical talentos, Pepe y su Orquesta mantiene el firme proposito de hacer vibrar a la gente con su ritmo típico tropical y letras destinadas al corazón acompañado por su calidad musical y elegante presentación.
Pepe y su Orquesta nace en San Francisco, California en la decada de los noventas, con un espíritu lleno de energia y superación. Como toda buena arquitectura, Pepe y su Orquesta goza de buenos cimientos, ya que los tres vocalistas son hermanos; Pepe, Luis, y Tony Gonzáles, una alianza destinada al triunfo.