New swing sextet biography
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A product of New York City and the excitement and turbulence of the 60s, the New Swing Sextet (NSS) made it’s professional debut at the New York World’s Fair in 1965.
New swing sextet biography
The band was to become very popular in the United States and Latin America, including the Caribbean, as exponents of an innovative new sound that emerged in the mid-60s known as Latin Boogaloo.
Though the New Swing currently has 7 members, when the group first got together it was composed of 6 members (popularly called a Sextet).
During that era (1960s), so many young musicians growing up in New York were exposed and influenced by rock-and-roll, pop, and soul music (in addition to Latin music) which, in our opinion, helped give birth to the latin boogaloo (which was in term related to the cha-cha-cha and guajira rhythms).
During the boogaloo’s peak years of popularity, there was also a slight decline in the popularity of mambo and salsa. But the young new bands of that era such as Willie Colon, Johnny Colon, the Lebro