Aurelio Martinez – review

Union Chapel, LondonAurelio Martinez has all the makings of an internationally successful artist. He has a fine soulful voice and a highly individual style; his songs are based around the traditional rhythms of the Garifuna people, the descendants of escaped slaves from Africa who intermarried with the local people on the island of St Vincent, and who can now be found across Central America. This is music that fuses Caribbean, Latin and African influences, and was initially popularised in the we...

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