SPANGLISH FLY is New York City’s premier band dedicated to cooking up the spicy musical dish called bugalú, that hybrid of Latin rhythm and soul/R&B that emerged out of 1960s El Barrio. Two pounds of hot mambo stirred together with 15 ounces of Motor-City Motown, deep fried for three hours and you get a bucketload of mouth watering Latin Soul! With twelve members whose origins are in Puerto Rico, Cuba, Mexico, Japan, Canada, “Loisaida” and the Upper West Side, Spanglish Fly comes together in New York to play music born in 1960s Spanish Harlem. The band’s live shows are explosive Latin Soul parties filled with original tunes that pay homage to the genre while refreshing it for a new generation, and revivals of bugalú classics, all featuring stirring soulful melodies, danceable grooves and instant crowd engagement, including the popular Bugalú Dance Lesson.
“Spanglish Fly are single-handedly reviving sixties bugalú in NYC. . . . Go soak up a full measure of their brass-heavy Latin funk. ”Elizabeth Bougerol - NBC New York “What Sharon Jones did for oldschool soul, what Antibalas did for Afrobeat and what Chicha Libre is doing for chicha, Spanglish Fly is doing for bugalu. . . . It’s about time somebody brought this stuff back and it’s a good thing it’s this band because they have authentic saber” Lucid Culture “Five horns, a six strong rhythm section, a pianist and a tattooed singer who dances and sings and moans: put together they make a dazzling show.”Diederik von Hoogstraten (translation by Google) - North Sea Jazz BAND WEBSITE | EPK | STAGE PLOT | GO TO ROSTER |
