Steve Salas, a cofounder of the Los Angeles R&B band Tierra and an activist in Chicano politics, died Thursday morning at age 69, according to his family. Salas had been battling myeloma for two years ...
Born out of a small café in Little Tokyo and driven by Chicano rock, rhythm and blues, Afro-Cuban rhythms, rancheras, salsa and soul, for the past three decades the Los Angeles-based ensemble Quetzal ...
The genre commonly referred to as "Chicano soul" has that "you know it if you hear it" kind of sound. It's a bicultural interpretation of late 1950s and early '60s African American R&B ballads by ...
El Chicano made the scene in 1970 with a Gerald Wilson composition 'Viva Tirado" which garnered them with being named #1 Jazz group of the year. And went on to earn their first gold record.Have ...
Talking about what it means to be Latino growing up in Los Angeles, Gabriel Rowland, writer and creator of the Chicano vintage soul group Los Yesterdays, made it clear that performing at the Fool in ...
He was one of the first to introduce R&B rock n’ roll and soul oldies to the West Coast and quickly gained popularity from the Chicano community. Laboe was not only notorious for his iconic radio ...