Africando

Africando
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Styles: Salsa, Mambo, Son
Group Members: Bobby Allende, Medoune Diallo, Oscar Hernandez, Ite Jerez, Papo Pepin, Mario Rivera, Hector "Bomberito..., Eddie Zervigon, Gnonnas Pedro, ...View All
Biography: Africando represents a cross-cultural collaboration between top-ranked, New York-based, Latin musicians and African vocalists. While lyrics are sung in Yoruba, Wolof, Mandigo and French, the group's sizzling-hot dance rhythms blend classic mambo, Cuban son and mandigo traditions. Africando was initially ...Read full biography
Mandali
Released: 2000
Label: Stern's Africa
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Mandali is Africando's fifth album and features no less than eleven of the world's greatest singers. It is nonstop dance music and salsa of the highest caliber. The only things missing are the slower cha-chas ...Read full review
Baloba!
Released: 1998
Label: Syllart
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Baloba! digs deeper into theme of African-Latin unity. The grooves find ground that transcends ethnicities and geography. David Byrne has said that the "music of the African Diaspora has colonized the ...Read full review
More Africando albums: Main Albums (9), DVD/Video (2)
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