Angel AND THE MAMBOKATS’ “BLACK MAMBO”
TO REPRISE ON “SO wewe THINK wewe CAN DANCE” SEPTEMBER 2ND
Hollywood, CA, August 25, 2009— As a performer, recording artist, dancer and choreographer for zaidi than twenty years, Angel Ferreira has grown up in the muziki business. He’s performed with everyone from Madonna to Vanessa Williams. After a strong career as a dance artist, Angel adopted a new style and became a bandleader, fronting the Afro-Cuban soul band Angel and the Mambokats. He’s recently seen one of the tracks from his self-produced and released album Horizontal Mambo break huge—on TV. Twenty millions of viewers heard the track “Black Mambo” as the dance number for Benji and Heidi on Season Two of So wewe Think wewe Can Dance? Then, millions zaidi saw Olympic dhahabu medalist Misty May Traynor and Maksim dance to “Black Mambo” on Dancing with the Stars. inayofuata week, millions of viewers will see and hear Black Mambo again on So wewe Think wewe Can Dance: juu Dances Special The onyesha airs Wednesday, September 2nd on fox, mbweha at 8:00PM Pacific/7:00PM Central Time (check local listings for precise air times) and the song has breathed new life into Angel Ferreira’s career.
I’m delighted these dance programs and artists have embraced Angel and the Mambokats,” Angel says. “The muziki of the Mambokats is sexy, sultry and tribal with an unmistakably Latin flavor, so it’s only natural people would want to dance to it. I’m just grateful the likes Benji and Misty May have chosen to dance to it. It’s really propelled downloads of my music.”
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Trained in dance and music, Angel Ferreira developed a potent, appealing mix of mitaani, mtaa and slick growing up in Los Angeles. For Angel, early skate culture with an Aerosmith and Ted Nugent soundtrack thrived along study with the Cleveland Ballet, and he won a scholarship to the Joffrey Ballet in New York before being cast as an extra on the film BEAT mitaani, mtaa in 1984.
He danced his way from the Cat Club in Manhattan to a featured dancing gig on Madonna’s “Who’s That Girl?” world tour. From there, he started recording music, making muziki videos, koki commercials and stints with daisy Fuentes, Paula Abdul, Color Me Bad, Coolio, and more. Oh, and he also recorded and released “Angel,” an album of dance/pop songs, the singles “Wet Jam” and “Your upendo Just Ain’t Right”. These records spun off several videos.
Today, the musical hybrid of afro-Cuban, soul, jazz and hip hop Angel calls Afro-Cuban Soul defines both his heritage and his music—reaching all the way back to the Tito Puente and Celia Cruz records his parents played at home. As times changed, so did his sound—into something that became a musical culmination of his personal life. The album Horizontal Mambo features nourishing songs of Lost and found upendo in L.A.'s well-heeled districts. The track “Black Mambo” is a fast mambo that describes Angel’s quest for infinite upendo and was first captured in the essence of dance kwa America’s inayopendelewa male and female dance contestants of 2007, Benji and Heidi. mashabiki and pundits agree this was one of the juu ten dances ever on SYTYCD. Earlier this year, Angel went to China where he helped choreograph Wu Ling Da Wei, a Chinese version of Dancing with the Stars that is the country’s most maarufu show. 50 million people saw that performance. “Now THAT’s a lot of people,” Angel quips."
Angel’s polishing his latest effort, an EP called Mambophonic. It features three tracks: two news songs, “Friday Night Rhvthm,” that was also used in another episode of So wewe Think wewe Can Dance; and “Do wewe Wanna Mambo?” as well as a cover of the famous Haircut 100 hit, “Favorite Shirts (AKA Boy Meets Girl).” “People need muziki in their lives!.....It’s part of the rhythm of life!” Angel concludes. “Do wewe wanna mambo?”
Angel and the Mambokats’ Horizontal Mambo is available on iTunes au from www.myspace.com/angelandthemambokats. mashabiki can purchase the full-length CD from www.angelandthemambokats.com.
TO REPRISE ON “SO wewe THINK wewe CAN DANCE” SEPTEMBER 2ND
Hollywood, CA, August 25, 2009— As a performer, recording artist, dancer and choreographer for zaidi than twenty years, Angel Ferreira has grown up in the muziki business. He’s performed with everyone from Madonna to Vanessa Williams. After a strong career as a dance artist, Angel adopted a new style and became a bandleader, fronting the Afro-Cuban soul band Angel and the Mambokats. He’s recently seen one of the tracks from his self-produced and released album Horizontal Mambo break huge—on TV. Twenty millions of viewers heard the track “Black Mambo” as the dance number for Benji and Heidi on Season Two of So wewe Think wewe Can Dance? Then, millions zaidi saw Olympic dhahabu medalist Misty May Traynor and Maksim dance to “Black Mambo” on Dancing with the Stars. inayofuata week, millions of viewers will see and hear Black Mambo again on So wewe Think wewe Can Dance: juu Dances Special The onyesha airs Wednesday, September 2nd on fox, mbweha at 8:00PM Pacific/7:00PM Central Time (check local listings for precise air times) and the song has breathed new life into Angel Ferreira’s career.
I’m delighted these dance programs and artists have embraced Angel and the Mambokats,” Angel says. “The muziki of the Mambokats is sexy, sultry and tribal with an unmistakably Latin flavor, so it’s only natural people would want to dance to it. I’m just grateful the likes Benji and Misty May have chosen to dance to it. It’s really propelled downloads of my music.”
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Trained in dance and music, Angel Ferreira developed a potent, appealing mix of mitaani, mtaa and slick growing up in Los Angeles. For Angel, early skate culture with an Aerosmith and Ted Nugent soundtrack thrived along study with the Cleveland Ballet, and he won a scholarship to the Joffrey Ballet in New York before being cast as an extra on the film BEAT mitaani, mtaa in 1984.
He danced his way from the Cat Club in Manhattan to a featured dancing gig on Madonna’s “Who’s That Girl?” world tour. From there, he started recording music, making muziki videos, koki commercials and stints with daisy Fuentes, Paula Abdul, Color Me Bad, Coolio, and more. Oh, and he also recorded and released “Angel,” an album of dance/pop songs, the singles “Wet Jam” and “Your upendo Just Ain’t Right”. These records spun off several videos.
Today, the musical hybrid of afro-Cuban, soul, jazz and hip hop Angel calls Afro-Cuban Soul defines both his heritage and his music—reaching all the way back to the Tito Puente and Celia Cruz records his parents played at home. As times changed, so did his sound—into something that became a musical culmination of his personal life. The album Horizontal Mambo features nourishing songs of Lost and found upendo in L.A.'s well-heeled districts. The track “Black Mambo” is a fast mambo that describes Angel’s quest for infinite upendo and was first captured in the essence of dance kwa America’s inayopendelewa male and female dance contestants of 2007, Benji and Heidi. mashabiki and pundits agree this was one of the juu ten dances ever on SYTYCD. Earlier this year, Angel went to China where he helped choreograph Wu Ling Da Wei, a Chinese version of Dancing with the Stars that is the country’s most maarufu show. 50 million people saw that performance. “Now THAT’s a lot of people,” Angel quips."
Angel’s polishing his latest effort, an EP called Mambophonic. It features three tracks: two news songs, “Friday Night Rhvthm,” that was also used in another episode of So wewe Think wewe Can Dance; and “Do wewe Wanna Mambo?” as well as a cover of the famous Haircut 100 hit, “Favorite Shirts (AKA Boy Meets Girl).” “People need muziki in their lives!.....It’s part of the rhythm of life!” Angel concludes. “Do wewe wanna mambo?”
Angel and the Mambokats’ Horizontal Mambo is available on iTunes au from www.myspace.com/angelandthemambokats. mashabiki can purchase the full-length CD from www.angelandthemambokats.com.
