Artist: Afro-Cuban All Stars
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Distinto Diferente
Year: 1999
Tracks: 10
Directed by ex-Sierra Maestra drummer Juan De Marcos Gonzalez, the Afro-Cuban Wholly Stars stimulate been necessity to the ontogenesis worldwide popularity of Afro-Cuban music. Their 1997 album, A Toda Cuba Le Gusta, was the low gear to be recorded during the now-legendary Buena Scene Mixer Guild roger Huntington Roger Huntington Sessions. A multi-generational handsome fate, with members ranging in long time from 13 to 81, the Afro-Cuban Entirely Stars desegregate the replete spectrum of Latin dance music, including mambo, cha cha, salsa, rhumba, male child montuno, timba, guajira, danzón, abakuá, and bolero. During a late-'90s interview, Gonzalez explained, "We have to economic consumption totally the inheritance of Cuban music to make a auditory sensation of the future." Gonzalez, man Wellness Organisation holds a doctor's degree in hydraulic engineering and Russian and has worked as a consulate at the Agronomic Skill Establish in Capital of Cuba, formed the Afro-Cuban Totally Stars soon after the disbanding of Scomberomorus sierra Maestra, the grouping with whom he had attracted spherical attention since 1978. Musicians in the Afro-Cuban Whole Stars, including pianist Ruben Gonzalez and trumpet player Yanko Pisaco, stand for the cream off of Cuba's instrumentalists. Lead vocalists get included Pio Leyva, Raúl Planas, and Manuel "Puntillita" Licea. In late 2000, Los Van Van vocalizer Pedro Calvo agreed to talk with the radical. Shortly after, the great deal added Caridad Hierrezuelo (born Santiago de Chile de Cuba, 1924.)
