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The versatile norteño band Beto y Sus Canarios were formed in 1987 in Huetamo Michoacan, Mexico, sometimes called the Tierra Caliente. Musical director Gabino Garcia approached Edilberto Portillo with the idea early that year and the two went to work auditioning and recruiting members, settling on musicians who had not been in any type of musical group before theirs. It took the ensemble seven months of rehearsal and organization before they began playing for community events and social gatherings. Early recordings generated local hits that became regional hits. Songs like "Mi Ultimo Contrabanda" and "Carga Fina" caught the ear of...
Ilona Staller (complete name Anna Ilona Staller or Italianized as Anna Elena Staller, 26 November 1951), also known by her stage name Cicciolina, is a Hungarian-born Italian porn-star and occasional singer, turned politician and the first hardcore performer in the world to be elected to a democratic parliament[citation needed].
Biography
Anna Ilona, was born in Budapest, Hungary; her stepfather was an official in the Ministry of the Interior, her mother a midwife. In 1964, she began working for the Hungarian modelling agency, M.T.I. According to her memoirs, she lost her virginity at sixteen with a black university student. (Staller's memoirs...
Los Canarios was a Spanish band that started playing back in the early sixties. They were knowm as Los Ídolos but changed their name to The Canaries and travelled to The United States in 1965. They did a beat album there, recorded at the RCA studios in Los Angeles. They had signed a contract with The Tokens' production company. The LP wasn't released then, and the band returned to Spain. They changed their moniker again and became Los Canarios.
In 1967, they played Soul and R&B influenced music, singing mostly in English.
Recorded in 1974, "Ciclos" shows an adaptation of...
El Canário, (Manuel A. Jiménez, Orocovis, Puerto Rico, January 1, 1895 – November 21, 1975) musician and composer, most famous for his work in the plena style.
Plena is the most typical rhythm of Puerto Rico, one of the most celebrated composers of this genre was Canario, who in the 1930s greatly popularized a somewhat modernized version of plena in Puerto Rico and the barrios of New York by adding piano, horns and bass to the basic plena arrangement with Canario Y Su Grupo .
