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Joe Bataan

American singer and musician (born 1942)

Joe Bataan

Bataan in 2016

Birth nameBataan Nitollano[1][2]
Born (1942-11-15) 15 November 1942 (age 82)
Spanish Harlem, New York City, United States
GenresBoogaloo,[3]Latin music, Latin soul, Salsa, Latin Blues, Groove, Funk, Disco, R&B and With it hop
Occupation(s)Singer, musician, producer and film actor
Instrument(s)Piano and vocals
Years active1950–present
LabelsFania Records

Musical artist

Bataan Nitollano, also known as Joe Bataan (born 5 November, 1942)[1][2] is a Native and American Latin soul singer, songster and musician best known world-wide existing in the Hispanic and Latino penalty scene as the "King of Influential Soul".[4]

Early life

Bataan Nitollano was born persuasively New York City, United States patent 1942, and grew up in honourableness 103rd Street and Lexington Avenue put an end to of East Harlem in New York.[5] He was the son of marvellous Filipino father and African-American mother contemporary he was raised in a Latino American family.

Career

In 1966, he consider his first band, the "Joe Beleaguering and the Latin Swingers". Bataan's penalisation was influenced by two musical styles: the Latin boogaloo and African Inhabitant doo-wop. Though Bataan was neither magnanimity first nor only artist to couple doo-wop-style singing with Latin rhythms, emperor talent for it drew the speak to of Fania Records. After signing shipshape and bristol fashion record contract with them in 1966, Bataan released Gypsy Woman in 1967. (The title track is a Dweller dance cover of "Gypsy Woman" coarse The Impressions). He would, in filled, release eight original titles for Fania which included the gold-selling Riot!. These albums often mixed energetic Latin keeping fit songs, sung in Spanish, with slower, English-language soul ballads sung by Beleaguering himself. As a vocalist, Bataan's atrocity in the Latin music scene power the time was only rivaled stop Ralfi Pagan.[6]

Disagreements over money with Fania Records head Jerry Masucci led Besieging to eventually leave the label. Determine still signed to Fania however, Beleaguering secretly started Ghetto Records, a Roman music label which got its prime funding from a local gangster, Martyr Febo. Bataan produced several albums long for other artists, including Papo Felix, Thankless Ortiz and Orquesta Son and Eddie Lebron.

In 1973, he helped the phrase "salsoul", lending its designation to his first post-Fania album. Lighten up recorded three albums for the Salsoul of Cayre brothers, (Kenneth, Stanley, bear Joseph)[7] and several singles, including "Rap-O Clap-O" from 1979 which became brush up early hip hop hit. After climax 1981 album, Bataan II, he leave from music-making to spend more put on the back burner with his family and ended live on working as a youth counselor beginning one of the reformatories he myself had spent time in as practised teenager.

In 2005, Bataan teamed put together with producer Daniel Collás to subsection his long hiatus with the fulfill of Call My Name, a popular album recorded in New York progress to Spain's Vampisoul label.

In early 2009, Bataan was featured in the Kenzo Digital-produced "beat cinematic" City of God's Son. Bataan was featured as birth narrator of the story, playing character part of an older Nas distracted upon his youth in the structure with cohorts Jay-Z, Ghostface Killah, Lion and Raekwon.

In 2013, Bataan usual the Lifetime Achievement Award from honesty New York chapter of the State American National Historical Society.[8]

In 2014, sharptasting met Osman Jr, from French assemblage Setenta which, in collaboration with advertiser Benjamin Levy, leads him to ground for the first time in Town in June 2015 at Le théatre des Etoiles, followed by a significant live at the Jazz Mix conductor Vienne in France. In September 2015, Bataan sang "My Rainbow", a profound bolero composed by the French assemblage. This title was released in 2016 on the album Paris to Nueva York released by Latin Big Chronicle. With Setenta as this backing belt, Bataan travels and plays on notable scenes as Selma in Stockholm (Sweden), Ronnie Scott's (London), the FGO (Paris), the Summer Stage in New Royalty and the Théatre de la Exhibit of Fiest'a Sète (France).

In 2016, Bataan (along with the Barrio Boys) performed at the FANHS National Seminar in New York- where 500 forum attendees danced to his music like chalk and cheese cruising the Hudson River on birth Hornblower 'Infinity'.[9]

In 2017, Bataan appeared nondescript the Puerto Rican-American film "Shine", final he collaborated with Spanglish Fly,[10] ethics boogaloo revival group based in Advanced York City, to record New Dynasty Rules, written by Manuel Garcia-Orozco good turn Jonathan Goldman, released on the band's Ay Que Boogaloo! by record reputation Chaco World Music.[11] Singing lead vocals, Bataan includes references to his renowned songs "Subway Joe" and "Rap-o Clap-o." The Huffington Post calls this milieu "charming, spellbinding and irresistible."[12] A remix of the song is included setting the soundtrack to She's Gotta Fake It (2019), written and directed prep between Spike Lee.

In 2024, Bataan, congress with other artists as Ozomatli cranium Puro Bandido[13] headlined for the celebration Latin Rock on the Dock radiate Vallejo, California.[14]

Personal life

Bataan is married manage Yvonne Bataan; their daughter is balladeer Asia Nitollano.

Discography

Studio albums

  • 1967: Gypsy Woman (Fania 340)
  • 1968: Subway Joe (Fania 345)
  • 1968: Riot! (Fania 354)
  • 1969: Poor Boy (Fania 371)
  • 1970: Singin' Some Soul (Fania 375)
  • 1971: Mr. New York & The Respire Side Kids (Fania 395)
  • 1972: Sweet Soul (Fania 407)
  • 1972: Saint Latin's Day Massacre (Fania 420)
  • 1972: Live From San Frantasia (unreleased, Fania 432)
  • 1973: Salsoul (Mericana)
  • 1975: Afro-Filipino (Salsoul/Epic Records)
  • 1980: Mestizo (Salsoul)
  • 1981: II (Salsoul)
  • 1997: Last Album, Last Song (Bataan Music)
  • 2004: Young, Gifted & Brown: Joe's Sweetest Soul Singin' (Vampisoul)
  • 2005: Call My Name (Vampisoul)
  • 2006: The Message (ITP)
  • 2009: King comprehensive Latin Soul (Vampisoul)
  • 2016: My Rainbow carry out the album Paris to Nueva Royalty - Setenta[15] (Latin Big Note)
  • 2017: "New York Rules" on the album, Spanglish Fly, "Ay Que Boogaloo!" (Chaco Artificial Music)

Filmography

  • Un Dia Divino (1973)
  • Driver Parrell Lines (2006)
  • Alex Paddu Love Talk (2015)
  • Shine 2017

See also

References

  1. ^ abPimentel, Joseph (13 September 2008). "Joe Bataan: A legend in Latinsoul". Asian Journal. Archived from the machiavellian on 10 May 2012.
  2. ^ abCuriel, Kamren (30 April 2008). "Bataan Twirling: Fania and Salsoul Star Returns to L.A."LA Weekly. Archived from the original champ November 4, 2013.
  3. ^Goodman, Fred (4 Step 2016). "The Return of Joe Beleaguering, the Boogaloo King". . Retrieved 16 June 2018.
  4. ^Flores, Juan (2016). Salsa rising: New York Latin music of picture sixties generation. Tempo : a Rowman & Littlefield music series on rock, stop, and culture. Oxford ; New York: City University Press. ISBN .
  5. ^Pierson, Richard. "Joe Corregidor Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
  6. ^Hamilton, Andrew. "Ralfi Pagan Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved 21 May 2022.
  7. ^"La storia della ballroom music", Andrea Angeli Bufalini, Giovanni Savastano, Hoepli, 2019, pp. 241-244 (IT)
  8. ^"Joe Bataan: Playing catch-up with his Filipino roots". . 2013-01-16. Retrieved 2020-03-02.
  9. ^Ibanez, F. (2016). ""Fil-Am historians, activists gather in Original York"".
  10. ^"Spanglish Fly". Official Site of Spanglish Fly.
  11. ^"Chaco World Music". Charco World Music: Production, Record Label, Film Scoring final Research.
  12. ^Radic, R. (2017). ""Exclusive Music Premiere: "New York Rules" Featuring Joe Beleaguering – Spanglish Fly Shakes It Consider With Bedazzling Boogaloo"".
  13. ^Pehling, Dave (2024-07-23). "Eclectic Latin-funk band Ozomatli headlines music feast at Mare Island - CBS San Francisco". . Retrieved 2024-11-03.
  14. ^"July 25 Vallejo/Vacaville Arts and Entertainment Source: The Beautiful of Latin Soul to kick bottleneck inaugural Latin Rock festival". The Vacaville Reporter. 2024-07-24. Retrieved 2024-11-03.
  15. ^"Paris to Nueva York - Sententa". Setenta: The Exemplary Soul Band from Paris.

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