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Jean Rohe, Hector Morales & Afrodita
Music Style: Afro Portuguese & Afro Peruvian Jazz
The music of Jean Rohe, Hector Morales & Afrodita is a collective of similar but subtly different musical souls, connected by a desire to build bridges and create powerful cultural statements. Jean Rohe's vocals weave a soundscape that is hard to resist-full of air and light one minute, forceful and committed the next. Whether fronting her own unique group or adding presence to Afroditas'dynamic Afro Peruvian style, she brings beauty and imagination to the song.Hector Morales, a native of Lima Peru, is the founder, composer, percussionist, and lyricist, for the eclectic Afrodita; the sound of Afro-Peruvian music in the NYC metropolitan area. Under his guidance, the complex rhythms and melodies take shape and fly.Through these eight amazingly talented musicians, a sound is being created that reflects the multicultural tapestry of our world today. Earthy grooves from the black Peru style, Rumba, Arabic motives, and floaty rock digressions, are sewn together with a spirit that couples meaningful, positive lyrics with greater social consciousness.Listen up and bring something very special to your event.
The music of Jean Rohe, Hector Morales & Afrodita is a collective of similar but subtly different musical souls, connected by a desire to build bridges and create powerful cultural statements.
Jean Rohe's vocals weave a soundscape that is hard to resist-full of air and light one minute, forceful and committed the next. Whether fronting her own unique group or adding presence to Afroditas'
dynamic Afro Peruvian style, she brings beauty and imagination to the song.
Hector Morales, a native of Lima Peru, is the founder, composer, percussionist, and lyricist, for the eclectic Afrodita; the sound of Afro-Peruvian music in the NYC metropolitan area. Under his guidance, the complex rhythms and melodies take shape and fly.
Through these eight amazingly talented musicians, a sound is being created that reflects the multicultural tapestry of our world today. Earthy grooves from the black Peru style, Rumba, Arabic motives, and floaty rock digressions, are sewn together with a spirit that couples meaningful, positive lyrics with greater social consciousness.
Listen up and bring something very special to your event.
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Mambo Machine
Music Style: Salsa
Hypnotic and exciting, the Mambo Machine represents the proud musical traditions of Puerto Rico, through the energetic styles of salsa, to crowds from Atlantic City to DC.Based in the Northeast corridor of the US, they integrate the best young talent with some of the most respected Latin recording and touring musicians. Their fresh, rhythmic approach keeps the dance floor alive and vibrant.Through a mix of conga, timbale, brass, keyboard, and vocals, the band is a perpetual motion machine, mixing Salsa, Cha Cha, Rhumba and Meringue.They are also one of the few performing Latin groups on the East Coast who can glide easily between event scenarios- from pure Latin Salsa, to Smooth Jazz, as well as event background music. The Mambo Machine is pure Latin Dynamite and will make any occasion one that your guests will be talking about for months.
Hypnotic and exciting, the Mambo Machine represents the proud musical traditions of Puerto Rico, through the energetic styles of salsa, to crowds from Atlantic City to DC.
Based in the Northeast corridor of the US, they integrate the best young talent with some of the most respected Latin recording and touring musicians. Their fresh, rhythmic approach keeps the dance floor alive and vibrant.
Through a mix of conga, timbale, brass, keyboard, and vocals, the band is a perpetual motion machine, mixing Salsa, Cha Cha, Rhumba and Meringue.
They are also one of the few performing Latin groups on the East Coast who can glide easily between event scenarios- from pure Latin Salsa, to Smooth Jazz, as well as event background music.
The Mambo Machine is pure Latin Dynamite and will make any occasion one that your guests will be talking about for months.
Minas
Music Style: Brazilian Bossa Nova, Samba, Traditional Carnaval
Orlando Haddad and Patricia King formed Minas to bring Brazilian music to stateside audiences.Today Minas is one of the most sought after Brazilian bands in the US. Built upon the duo's multiple talents as vocalists, instrumentalists and composers, they exude an impressive grasp of the full range of Brazilian musical idioms -from Samba to Carnaval.At the core of any Minas show are the voices, the blending of which reflects two decades of harmonizing. Warm and engaging, this magical blend becomes infectious when Minas adds bass, drums, percussion and horns to Orlando's guitar and Patricia's keyboards. Minas has won Best of Philadelphia awards from Philadelphia Magazine twice, in 1989 and 1997. Performance Highlights Lincoln Center, SOB's (NYC), Kennedy Center (Washington DC), Mellon Jazz Festival, Academy of Music, International House, Painted Bride Arts Center (Philadelphia), Bethlehem Music Festival, King of France Tavern (Annapolis MD), and many Philadelphia music clubs, hotels, convention centers and Atlantic City casinos. TV and RADIOEmeril Live", Food Network; Interviews on Fresh Air and Radio Times (NPR); Sounds of Brazil with Sergio Mielniczenko (KPFK/PRI) Trem Azul with Milton Nascimento (syndicated in Brazil), many interviews with WXPN, WRTI, WHYY (3 of Philadelphia's NPR affiliates), Voice of America, and other stations.
Orlando Haddad and Patricia King formed Minas to bring Brazilian music to stateside audiences.
Today Minas is one of the most sought after Brazilian bands in the US. Built upon the duo's multiple talents as vocalists, instrumentalists and composers, they exude an impressive grasp of the full range of Brazilian musical idioms -from Samba to Carnaval.
At the core of any Minas show are the voices, the blending of which reflects two decades of harmonizing. Warm and engaging, this magical blend becomes infectious when Minas adds bass, drums, percussion and horns to Orlando's guitar and Patricia's keyboards. Minas has won Best of Philadelphia awards from Philadelphia Magazine twice, in 1989 and 1997.
Performance Highlights
Lincoln Center, SOB's (NYC), Kennedy Center (Washington DC), Mellon Jazz Festival,
Academy of Music, International House, Painted Bride Arts Center (Philadelphia),
Bethlehem Music Festival, King of France Tavern (Annapolis MD), and many
Philadelphia music clubs, hotels, convention centers and Atlantic City casinos.
TV and RADIO
Emeril Live", Food Network; Interviews on Fresh Air and Radio Times (NPR); Sounds of Brazil with Sergio Mielniczenko (KPFK/PRI) Trem Azul with Milton Nascimento (syndicated in Brazil), many interviews with WXPN, WRTI, WHYY (3 of Philadelphia's NPR affiliates), Voice of America, and other stations.
Billy Price Band
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