Genre: Latin
Decades Active: 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s
Alfredo Gutierrez is one of the top-ranked performers of Colombian folk music. Together with his band, which includes accordion, drums, guaracharaca, scrapper, bass, guitar, trumpet, Gutierrez combines the Colombian traditions of vallenato, a folk music intially played on the Atlantic coastline for smuggler barons and their gangs, and cumbia, a... [+] Read More
Genre: Latin
Decades Active: 90s, 00s
Tango pioneer Anibal Troilo was born in 1914, cutting his teeth playing bandoneón behind Ciriaco Ortiz, Julio De Caro, Angel D´Agostino and Enrique Santos Discépolo prior to founding his own orchestra in 1937. During the 1940s he ranked among the most influential figures in Argentinian music, famed for his oft-imitated "Troilo Sound" -- a rich,... [+] Read More
Genre: Latin
Decades Active: 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s
Colombian arranger/composer Lucho Argain (born Luis Guillermo Pérez Cedrón) made his first record in 1959 after signing up to Antonio Fuentes Estrada's label Discos Fuentes. Soon, the talented musician and the visionary entrepreneur teamed up to assemble a major orchestra inspired by the success of Cuban Sonora Matancera. Unfortunately, the... [+] Read More
Genre: R&B/Soul/Urban
One of the first bands to combine the folk rhythms of Colombia's Buenaventura region and the cumbia of Cuba, Peregoyo Y Su Combo Vacana were known for their unique electric guitar-dominated sound. Reviewing a reissue of their early-70s album, Tropicalismo, RootsWorld claimed that Peregoyo Y Su Combo Vacana “never lets up as it hurls groove after... [+] Read More
