Born in poverty, she became the lead singer of Cuba's greatest dance band, La Sonora Matancera.
Another New Orleans dance band Tom Brown's Band From Dixieland had already had success playing there at local restaurants.
Elvis Costello and the Pixies canceled performances, as did the British dance band Klaxon and the Gorillaz Sound System.
Famous for their experimentation in percussion and electric guitar, they are regarded as one of the most influential Latin dance band in decades.
He also played with his father's dance band before turning professional.
Around the time of his 25th birthday, Hines was asked to lead a full-size dance band at the Grand Terrace, a new ballroom being launched in Chicago, and there he would remain in residence (except for the occasional tour) until the end of the big-band era in 1945.
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Besides being keyboardist and guitar player for globe, the trendy dance-sound band, he is composer, arranger and producer for the techno group trf, and for the wildly successful fashion and music phenomenon Amuro Namie.
In the lyrics, courting couples ride on bicycles built for two, chase rainbows and dance waltzes while the band plays on.
There will also be a pop-up gallery, a pipe band, dance performances, a traditional boat building display and a ceilidh on the day.
Equally upbeat is "Q of T, " which finds the band embracing indie dance pop with a heavy, jumpy bassline and jittery guitars in the song's energetic chorus.
By the end of this show, Kidjo had danced her way through the audience and back up, pulling dozens of fans onto the stage to dance with her and the band.
Phenomenal Handclap Band tosses together classic rock, dance music and electronica, and its delightful "Form and Control" (Tummy Touch) manages to be both retro and of the moment.
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"It wasn't a band all wearing white doing highly choreographed dance routines to slightly cheesy pop tunes, " he says.
As it was being pulled by a tugboat, the duck was serenaded for 30 minutes by the city's official police band and greeted by girls from a dance school pirouetting in orange tutus and yellow feather headdresses.
It sounds like a stretch for a band that specializes in klezmer, the clarinet based dance music of Eastern European Jews to record a whole album of Woody Guthrie songs.
Corey Pierno's fight choreography and Barry McNabb's dance steps enliven the proceedings, and the live four-piece band, led by musical director John Bell, adds wonderfully to the light-hearted ambience.
Inspired by what they'd just been through, in October they formed a company called the Family Dog, and on October 15, they rented Longshoreman's Hall and put on a dance with music by the Charlatans, Jefferson Airplane, and a band that lived a couple of doors away from the Charlatans, the Grateful Dead.
The Fighting Irish players, wearing championship hats and T-shirts, set up a dance line to celebrate and did an Irish jig in front of the school band.
"I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance with You" was a U.K. chart hit and a sleeper here, helping the band land considerable press attention along the way.
The soundtrack, with original music by Malaysian composer Adam Mansor, combines urban dance music with traditional Malay folk music -- in harmony with the storyline about a hip-hop band in Kuala Lumpur who head east into the Malay heartland, on the run from loan sharks because they can't repay the money they borrowed for their equipment.
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