RPM International

01/15/2022

On the air!! Tune in and have a listen to Desi Ambrozak and I with guest record selector Rudy De Anda!

RPM International on now! 5-6PM Pacific 99.1FM Klbp.org International music radio program featuring selections from the vinyl collections of
and special guests!

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10/15/2020

une in tomorrow to hear Sandro perform "Atmosfera Pesada" (Heavy Atmosphere).

Bio:
Roberto Sánchez-Ocampo (August 19, 1945 – January 4, 2010), better known by his artist names Sandro or Sandro de América, Gitano, and the Argentine Elvis, was a notable Argentine singer and actor.

You might not have heard of Sandro. While he was one of the biggest selling Spanish-language musical artists in history (outselling all others in the world in 1969), and the star of 16 films and several telenovelas, he was not widely known outside of the Spanish-speaking world. He began his career as something of an Elvis impersonator, singing tunes by the King, Jerry Lee Lewis, and the Rolling Stones in the mid-1960s. As he ventured into his own signature tunes, he gained fame as one of the stars of popular/youth music in Argentina, the man who hybridized Anglo-Saxon rock with Spanish romance and pop.
While you might not “see” Elvis in his style, he captured the essence of that 60s male crooner, sex-symbol, rock idol archetype an image he projected to his adoring fans (known as “las chicas”). In an English-language context, he was much like a Robert Goulet, Tom Jones, or Englebert Humperdink, people who appropriated a popular musical image and style and made a career out of it.
Sandro, who received a lung and heart

10/13/2020

Encore Today/ Tuesday
S01EP08

Tune in today to listen to Vincent Ahehehinnou sing Ou C'est Lui Ou!

Bio:

In early 1978, Vincent Ahehehinnou left the Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou after he had been one of their principal vocalists since 1968. His track “Ou C’est Lui Ou C’est Moi” never saw a release in Benin. Recorded with Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou, his music – with mellowed-out, highlife-like guitars, psychedelic synths, French chanson and a Cuban sorongo clave – is representative of the influences that swept Beninese culture in the 1970s.

Vincent helped transform them from a hard-charging nightclub band into a musical powerhouse and Africa-wide sensation. By the end of 1977, after an explosive performance at the pan-African arts and culture festival (Festac77) in Lagos, the band had reached the very pinnacle of their success. They were poised for break-out success throughout Africa. But the band's manager Adissa Seidou, whose label Albarika Store had released most of the band's recordings had a vision for Poly-Rythmo that didn't always line up with that of the musicians and, more often than not, it was Vincent who spoke up for the band.

'I asked him if there is a way we could sort out our differences,' Vincent says, 'to which he replied that the only solution was for me to leave the band, adding, "If not I will kill you"'.

He then tried his hand at various business ventures and, while On a business trip to Nigeria, Vincent met with Ignace de Souza of Benin's Black Santiago band. He agreed to arrange Vincent's songs, assemble musicians, and book a session at the legendary Decca Studios in Lagos. The nine-piece band, handpicked by de Souza, learned the songs and set them to tape in the span of only a week. These recordings were released as his first solo EP 'Best Woman' and Vincent went on to have a long a successful career and is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of the Afrobeat sound to emerge from West Africa in the 1970's.
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