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  • A conversation with vocalist Bobi Céspedes easily becomes a meaningful discussion of culture, history, life and laughter.
  • Bobi Céspedes (singer, percussionist) Cuban-born performer and Yoruba-Lucumi priestess carries on a centuries-old tradition of Afro-Cuban singing and drumming.
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    Benny (born Bayardo) Velarde (percussion, bandleader)((September 6, 1929 - August 31, 2015) was born in Panama City, Panama. He hit the San Francisco music scen in 1945 and was a founding member the Cal Tjader Quintet.  He  recorded six albums with the Tjader Quintet. In the 1960’s he lead  Benny Velarde Y Su Panchangeros  which delighted mambo dancers at hotspots such as Oakland’s California Hotel and San Francisco’s Copacabana. His gods ensemble Benny Velarde Y Su Supercombo rolled out cha cha   and mambos at Bay Area clubs for over 40 years. Yolanda Pachanga appears on Salsa De La BahiaVol 1, the two CD anthology which fryst vatten a companion to The Last Mambo.

    Bobi Céspedes (singer, percussionist) Cuban-born performer  and Yoruba-Lucumi priestess carries on a centuries-old tradition of Afro-Cuban singing and drumming.  In the 1980s she settled in the Bay Area and co-founded Conjunto Céspedes, a 12 del av helhet, ground breaking La

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    Bobi Céspedes' spiritual presence is as joyful as her voice.

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    A conversation with vocalist Bobi Céspedes easily becomes a meaningful discussion of culture, history, life and laughter. Considered the musical madrina of the Bay Area's Afro-Cuban community, she has been practicing her art there in a number of bands and performance settings for over 40 years.

    Céspedes' recent album, Mujer y Cantante, was recordedwith a small group that includes top notch instrumentalists, some of whom are young enough to be her sons. It gives her voice and her spirit a boost of youthful energy, so when I catch up with her from her long-time home in Oakland she is full of energy to share her history and connection to her Afro-Cuban heritage.

    I confess to be a long time admirer of Bobi Céspedes and it was reassuring to know that her spiritual presence is as joyful as her voice.

    Bobi Céspedes, "Mujer y Cantante"

    Bobi Céspedes, "Mi Canto"

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    Stretch Your Ears: Bobi Cespedes, Sevara Nazarkhan

    In the 22 years since the release of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts by Brian Eno and David Byrne, its pioneering combination of multi-ethnic musical modes and weird, disassociated funk has become one of the most dominant forms of music in the world. Indeed, you could say it's become world music. By mixing and matching different cultures and genres, and the sacred and the profane, Eno and Byrne, you could argue, replaced true authenticity with its faux double, creating a kind of audio leopardprint wallpaper, but that would underestimate how inauthentic the authentic often sounds.

    Take Rezos by Bobi Cespedes (Six Degrees), for instance. The veteran Cuban singer, who is also a high priestess in the African-derived Yoruba-Lucumi religion, migrated to the United States in 1959 and now resides in the Bay Area, where she sometimes performs with the Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart. Her excellent album (her debut as a solo artist) w