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Lived in Chicago Joe Becker (musician) Jun 23, 1976: Guitarist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Born in Chicago Taylor Bennett: Jan 19, 1996: Rapper Born in Chicago Franz Benteler: 1925: 2010: Violinist, "Ambassador of Music for Chicago" Lived in Chicago Andrew Bird: Jul 11, 1973: Singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Born in ...
Sones de México Ensemble Chicago formed in 1994 to keep the Mexican son tradition alive in its many regional forms, including the regional styles of huapango, gustos, chilenas, and son jarocho, among others. As performers and recording artists, the ensemble has developed and popularized many original arrangements of Mexican traditional tunes ...
Chicago a cappella has presented new music from composers such as Joseph Jennings, Chen Yi, Stacy Garrop, Rollo Dilworth, Tania León, and Ezequiel Viñao. Chicago a cappella has performed more than 350 concerts and assembled over 200 performances through its Chicago-based sequence. When touring, the ensemble has performed in 13 different ...
Several mestizo-bands in Ecuador made use of indigenous musical elements in rock music since the 1990s. Rocola Bacalao integrated Andean rhythms and made in their song-texts references to emblematic rural towns, such as Pujilí in Cotopaxi. Sal y Mileto and Casería de Lagartos coined the genre of new Ecuadorian Rock. Nevertheless, in the 1980s ...
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The Committee on Mexican American Interests promoted Mexican American student councils to encourage students to participate in higher education, promoted the G.I. Bill in the post-World War II period, and established a project with the Mexican Community Committee of South Chicago to gather potential recipients of scholarships and applicants to ...
Ecuadorian Americans (Spanish: ecuatorio-americanos, norteamericanos de origen ecuatoriano or estadounidenses de origen ecuatoriano) are Americans of full or partial Ecuadorian ancestry. Ecuadorian Americans are the 9th largest Latin American group in the United States .
The Music Conservatory was founded in 1867 as the Chicago Musical College, a conservatory.In 1954, the Chicago Musical College became part of Roosevelt University.In 1997, the Chicago Musical College joined with the university's theater program to become the College of the Performing Arts; and in 2000, it was renamed The Music Conservatory of the Chicago College of Performing Arts.