Punta Rock and Paranda: A Guide to Garifuna Music

November 19, 2014


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Along with James Lovell, Rolando “Chi Chi” Sosa is one of the contemporary torchbearers of Garifuna music. “He’s our Quincy Jones,” says Pablo Blanco. Sosa played on Andy Palacio’s last album Watina, and is also credited as one of the arrangers. Here he is performing his song “Beiba” at the New York nightclub S.O.B.’s: