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El Chicano was an American brown-eyed soul group from Los Angeles, California, whose style incorporated various modern music genres including rock, funk, soul, blues, jazz, and salsa. [1] The group's name came from the word Chicano , a term for United States citizens of typically Mexican descent.
El Chicano also created the theme song for the television series Baretta, which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1978. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] After spending 12 years with El Chicano, Regalado formed his own Latin Jazz All-Star Band in 1983, which included a select group of musicians from Los Angeles.
Rudy Salas (5 January 1949 – 29 December 2020) [1] [2] was a musician who was a member of the group El Chicano. He was also the co-founder of the L.A. Latin R&B band, Tierra. Along with his brother Steve, he was a major part of the Eastside sound from the mid 1960s.
Ersi Arvizu, (born September, 1948) is an American singer and composer who was famous in the 1960s as part of The Sisters, the first girl-group singing and recording Chicano rock music. Until 1970 she was the lead singer of El Chicano. She is notable for her contribution to Chicano music.
The band which was previously called Mickey & The Cavaliers, was led by Mike James Aversa aka Mickey. [11] [12] He left the band in the mid-1960s to join the VIPs, a Chicano band. [13] This group which was formed in 1965 by bass player Freddie Sanchez was a night club covers band. Espinosa was the first member brought into the band by Sanchez. [14]
After they disbanded, Albert continued to write and perform with the band's leader and vocalist, Ruben Guevara. [citation needed] In the following years, Albert was a member and co-leader of original keyboardist Bobby Espinosa's version of the Latin rock band El Chicano. They released several US regional singles in the early 1980s, such as ...
Thee Midniters were an American rock group, among the first Chicano rock bands to have a major hit in the United States.They were one of the best known acts to come out of East Los Angeles in the 1960s, with a cover of "Land of a Thousand Dances" that charted in Canada in 1965, and an instrumental track "Whittier Boulevard" in 1965.
They influenced other Chicano rock bands and Chicano music, because they were among the first Mexican rock musicians to express a kindred spirit with the Chicano movement. On their early recordings, Maldita Vecindad y Los Hijos del Quinto Patio (BMG Ariola 1989) and Circo (BMG Ariola 1991), Maldita's music delved into Chicano culture with songs ...