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Pepe Castillo & Cuatromania
12+ albums
latinpuerto rico
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The 'truth' of Pepe Castillo José "Pepe" Castillo musician, composer, singer and arranger. He articulates his words with the cadence of the fifth plenero: open, dry, forceful and strong, with a good critical sense of the rhythm of life. The truth is that, contrary to what was proclaimed in the classic "The Time Machine" by Rafael Cortijo, our "lololai" no longer rolls on the ground. So says the singer Pepe Castillo, who has worked for 11 years as an interpreter in the family room of the Court of New York and who - despite the ups and downs in the Puerto Rican folklore circuit cultivated by the Puerto Rican diaspora in the Babel de Hierro - has never stopped composing. Pepe, as an exponent of folklore, remains active, although he acknowledges that the popularity of rap and reggaeton has affected the medium of salsa. "The bomb, the full and the jíbara music is something else. The regimen does not affect us in the same way that it affects the sauce. " As he usually does since he settled in New York in the mid-1970s, Pepe is a promoter of our culture in the Hispanic communities of the City of Skyscrapers. Then the bomb and full groups were scarce. "They could count on a hand and had fingers left over. They were Víctor Montañez and the Pleneros of the 110 and Angel Luis Torruellas. When we formed our pump and full group it was a rarity for the Puerto Rican community, because before it was salsa, salsa and salsa. Canario was in New York, but it was another generation. The on
