José Luis Pardo, a.k.a. DJ Afro, plays guitar for the ubiquitous Los Amigos Invisibles, that New York-based crew of Venezuelans that have been making raunchy disco-Latin blends for more than a decade.
Pardo discovered his DJ persona, he says, once he became tired that before the Los Amigos’ gigs, the fans had to listen what club owners considered Latin music — the top 40 sounds of artists we won’t mention in this space.
Now DJ Afro has become associated with the up and coming National Geographic music label/website, Nat Geo Music, which this week had an event at music club Le Poisson Rouge.
[WATCH interview at NY1 Noticias]
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José Simián (1975) is a New York-based bilingual writer, producer and reporter. His articles and columns on politics, media and culture have been published by the New York Daily News, Mediaite, The Huffington Post, Sports Illustrated Latino, Billboard en Español, Latina, Qué Pasa, Etiqueta Negra, La Tercera and El Mercurio. He is also the host and producer of Contraportada, a weekly interview segment with Latino artists and intellectuals on 24-hour news cable station NY1 Noticias, and Executive Editor of Manero. Before becoming a writer, José worked as a lawyer (JD Universidad de Chile, 2002; LLM Columbia University, 2005) and taught Jurisprudence and Law and Literature in Chile. He lives in Brooklyn.
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