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Ay Valeria!
Ricardo Lemvo & Makina Loca
Ay Valeria!
Genres: Dance & Electronic, International Music, Latin Music
 
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Ricardo Lemvo has added a new touch to rumba music over the years, mixing Cuban and West African sounds. Born in Kinshasa, the capital of Zaire, Lemvo started out by playing in bands that covered American R&B, learning...  more »

     
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All Artists: Ricardo Lemvo & Makina Loca
Title: Ay Valeria!
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Mopiato Music
Release Date: 7/29/2003
Genres: Dance & Electronic, International Music, Latin Music
Style: World Dance
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 608228199126

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Ricardo Lemvo has added a new touch to rumba music over the years, mixing Cuban and West African sounds. Born in Kinshasa, the capital of Zaire, Lemvo started out by playing in bands that covered American R&B, learning his English phonetically from the song lyrics. But he heard the rumba incessantly on the radio, and also in his cousin's large record collection. After moving to Los Angeles and paying his dues in the music scene, he formed his own group, Makina Loca (a deliberate misspelling of maquina loca, Spanish for crazy machine) On Ay Valeria, Ricardo and friends serve up fiery salsa with explosive African Soukous guitars.

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Cuban piano mixed with African guitars, pulsating horns
WorldDiscoveries.Net | Petaluma, California | 09/01/2004
(4 out of 5 stars)

"Many African bands have tried to sound Cuban: some have succeeded, but nobody has successfully captured the essence of both the way Ricardo Lemvo and Makina Loca have.

Imagine Tito Puente or Johnny Pacheco at their salsa best mixed with occasional dashes of Franco or Tabu Ley Rochereau. Hot, hot, hot!"