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| Group Members: Bobby Allende, Medoune Diallo, Oscar Hernandez, Ite Jerez, Papo Pepin, Mario Rivera, Hector "Bomberito..., Eddie Zervigon, Gnonnas Pedro, ...View All
Group Members: Bobby Allende, Medoune Diallo, Oscar Hernandez, Ite Jerez, Papo Pepin, Mario Rivera, Hector "Bomberito..., Eddie Zervigon, Gnonnas Pedro, Pablo Nunez, Chino Nuñez, Ronnie Baró, Dave Rimelis ...Close
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| 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 |
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Released: 2000 Label: Stern's Africa Critics' Rating:  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 reviewReleased: 1998 Label: Syllart Critics' Rating:  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
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