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but you really have to get people accustomed to your particular sound. The force of the group is in themusic".... the music executives wanted
Bamboleo to play undemanding “salsa romántica,” maybe, or better yet something along the lines of what Carlos Santana ... At a stand still, Bamboleo was doing surpassingly well by Cuban standards — and just fairly well by world standards.
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Bamboleo famous, the dominance of a matched pair of women singers? Wasn't it like serving coffee with no sugar? Lazarito gave another shrug. “That was important until the public got used to the sound of our music. The singers are the visual element,
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and Vannia Borges, but Haila Mompié left the band after the first album and Valdés contracted various other singers. Overall the feminine voice element of the band was later pulled back, with Valdes explaining in interview "That was important until the public got used to the sound of our music. The
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2003 "At the same time, many followers of Cuban music in and outside of Cuba were looking to a younger group of musicians who were taking the momentum created by timba and taking it further. Bamboleo, formed in 1995, has become one of the primary proponents of timba brava, a timba with no holds
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The group was founded by Lázaro Valdés, a keyboard player, and initially fronted by two female singers, with a distinctive female "voice" and perspective in the lyrics. This was reflected on the first album cover,
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