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Candido Fabre began singing in the Charanga orchestra "La Original de Manzanillo", and is known as a supremely gifted and talented improviser or "sonero" (improviser), able to create a son from any given situation or expression. Candido Fabre was the songwriter, arranger and main vocalist with the Orquesta Original de Manzanillo in the 80's before forming his own band Candido Fabre Y Su Banda in 1993. As a Latin American songwriter, Candido has written over 1,000 songs which have been performed by artists such as Orquesta Aragon, Los Van Van, Manguare, Issac Delgado, Orquesta Ritmo Oriental and Los Karachi. On...

Romina Cohn started at a very early age, while she was just 11 years old, buying and involving herself in the vinyl's world, thank to her cousin, a DJ by that time. But according to her words, that was a time of learning and observation. "I couldn't say that i was already a DJ by that time, would be ridiculous, i was just learning by listening different kinds of music styles, playing with the turntables, and having fun". Romina's destiny as a DJ-producer was inevitable, because one year later, she moved to her actual Palermo's house (Buenos Aires) in which...

Al Cohn (Alvin Gilbert Cohn, Brooklyn, New York, November 24, 1925 – Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, February 15, 1988) was an American jazz tenor-saxophonist and arranger and composer. Al Cohn was initially known in the 1940s for playing in Woody Herman's Second Herd as one of the Four Brothers, along with Zoot Sims, Stan Getz, and Serge Chaloff. Unlike the better known tenors Sims and Getz, Cohn contributed arrangements to the Herman band. Cohn had a reputation as a lyrical flowing soloist. After leaving the Herman group Cohn went on to play with a variety of other musicians, but his best-known association...

Candido Camero is credited with being the first percussionist to bring conga drumming to jazz. Well known by his first name alone, Candido is a key figure for jazz aficionados to know. Born in Havana in 1921, Camero is know for his contributions to the development of mambo and Afro-Cuban jazz. In the early 1950s, Camero was a featured soloist with the Stan Kenton Orchestra. He created a unique playing style by tuning his congas to specific pitches, so that he could play melodies. The 2005 documentary, "Candido: Hands of Fire" captures the remarkable energy of a performer who continues...

Marc Cohn (born July 5, 1959 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a Grammy-award winning American singer-songwriter, best known for his song "Walking in Memphis" (often misattributed to Bruce Springsteen or Michael Bolton) from his self-titled 1991 album Marc Cohn. According to the Walking In Memphis Songfacts, Cohn was discovered by Carly Simon in the mid-'80s when he was with a 14-piece band called The Supreme Court. Atlantic Records signed him in 1989, but the first attempts to record his debut album with Tracy Chapman 's producer David Kerschenbaum failed. Ten months later, he tried again, producing the set himself with help...