Orchestre Rock-a-Mambo was a Congolese rumba band from Brazzaville of the 1950s. It was a studio band of the Esengo music studio. It was reconstituted...
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Mambo is a genre of Cuban dance music pioneered by the charanga Arcaño y sus Maravillas in the late 1930s and later popularized in the big band style by...
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Ornette Coleman, Jazz Musician Le Grand Kallé, African Rumba Musician Rock-a-Mambo, African Rumba Orchestra Dr. Nico, African Rumba Musician Marie Daulne...
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Pérez Prado (redirect from Il Re del Mambo)
a Cuban bandleader, pianist, composer and arranger who popularized the mambo in the 1950s. His big band adaptation of the danzón-mambo proved to be a...
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Representing the Mambo is the ninth studio album by the American rock band Little Feat, released in 1990. It peaked at No. 45 on the Billboard 200 and...
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Mambo Kurt (born Rainer Limpinsel; 11 April 1967 in Hagen) is a German comedy and novelty act who performs covers of mainstream and classic rock hits....
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Africa. In the song Moyibi, there's a part at the end that says Bakule, bakule. The bakule part is taken from a Rock-a-Mambo song named Bakoule (Bidama), written...
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Tito Puente (category Mambo musicians)
He composed dance-oriented mambo and Latin jazz music. Puente and his music have appeared in films including The Mambo Kings and Fernando Trueba's Calle...
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Editions Esengo was a record studio in the Congo, which is noted for assembling to their label Rock-a-Mambo, African Jazz, and Conga Jazz, three of the...
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Following the closing of Editions Esengo and the breakup of Rock-a-Mambo, in 1960 her career took a brief hiatus until she reappeared in Brazzaville with the...
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Brazzaville, OK Jazz and Orchestre Rock a Mambo. On 11 October 2006, UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura designated him a UNESCO Artist for Peace. "[AFRIQUECHOS...
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Martinez and His Mambo Freddie Bell and His Bellboys "Rock Around the Clock" - Bill Haley and His Comets "See You Later Alligator" - Haley "Rock-A-Beatin' Boogie"...
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Rhythm and blues (redirect from Rock&B)
Otis released the R&B mambo "Mambo Boogie" in January 1951, featuring congas, maracas, claves, and mambo saxophone guajeos in a blues progression. Ike...
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Glass Animals (redirect from Black Mambo)
Kaya Records, a subsidiary and imprint of XL Recordings (part of the Beggars Group of labels). In 2013, the band released Black Mambo / Exxus EP in Europe...
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"Make Believe Mambo" is a 1989 single by David Byrne from the album Rei Momo. The song peaked at No. 11 on the U.S. Modern Rock Tracks chart. The song...
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Chelsie Kay Hightower (born July 21, 1989) is a ballroom dancer. She is known for being a regular dance partner, trainer and choreographer on the ABC...
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Cómo Va" on the album Mambo Birdland, said "Everybody's heard of Santana. Santana! Beautiful Santana! He put our music, Latin rock, around the world, man...
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Zaba (album) (category Album chart usages for BillboardRock)
Epworth, they released their second, self-titled EP. A song from the EP, "Black Mambo", in addition to a re-recorded version of "Cocoa Hooves" from Leaflings...
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List of music genres and styles (redirect from List of genres of music (A-M))
Pagode Samba rock Caribbean Baithak Gana Bouyon Cadence-lypso Calypso Cha-cha-chá Chutney Chutney soca Chutney parang Compas Dancehall Mambo Mento Merengue...
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month of October for published Canadian writers. In 2003, the indie rock trio Mambo Sons released the Stegner-influenced song "Little Live Thing / Cross...
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(1953), "(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean" (1953), "Oh What a Dream" (1954), "Mambo Baby" (1954), and "Don't Deceive Me" (1960), some of which were...
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Leggy Mambo (1990) is the second studio album by the Leeds-based indie rock band Cud and released through Imaginary Records. An extended version called...
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Pinkan Ratnasari Mambo (born 11 November 1980), also known as Pinkan Mambo, is an Indonesian actress and singer-songwriter. She achieved success as the...
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Arsenio Rodríguez (section Diablo, the proto-mambo?)
modern-day salsa. He claimed to be the true creator of the mambo and was an important as well as a prolific composer who wrote nearly two hundred songs. Despite...
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cáscara. Common stroke patterns include abanico, baqueteo (from danzón), mambo, and chachachá. Timbales have average diameters of 33 cm (13 in) (macho...
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Gordon Matthews, Can't Buy a Thrill features an upbeat soft rock style. Music journalist Paul Lester said it incorporates mambo, swing, jazz, and Latin musical...
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later in the fusion of Rock-a-Mambo and African Jazz. Despite her popularity, Lucie Eyenga was not primarily recognized as a vocalist but as the hostess...
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performed. Night 1 (Women) Night 2 (Men) Each couple performed either the mambo or the quickstep. Couples are listed in the order they performed. Each couple...
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Argentine rock (known locally as rock nacional [ˈrok nasjoˈnal], "national rock" in the sense of "local", "not international") is rock music composed or...
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Kenny Aaronson (category American rock bass guitarists)
Eyes (1999) With Tom Guerra and Scott Lawson (Mambo Sons) Mambo Sons (1999) With John Eddie Guy Walks into a Bar (2001) Who the Hell is John Eddie (2003)...
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