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Joe Bataan

Música tropical

The next Joe Bataan concert is scheduled for Sunday, July 20, 2025 at Pershing Square in Los Angeles, CA, United States. See all 3 upcoming concerts
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Top Songs By Joe Bataan

Listen to The Prayer by Joe Bataan, see lyrics, music video & more!
The PrayerJoe Bataan
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My CloudJoe Bataan
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Upcoming Concerts for Joe Bataan

  • Jul
    20
    Jul 20, 2025
    Pershing Square
    Los Angeles
  • Aug
    17
    Aug 17, 2025
    The Jazz Cafe
    London
  • Oct
    25
    Oct 25, 2025
    The Ford
    Los Angeles

Latest Release

Listen to Riot! (Remastered 2024) by Joe Bataan
ALBUMRiot! (Remastered 2024)Joe Bataan

More albums from Joe Bataan

Listen to SalSoul by Joe Bataan
ALBUMSalSoulJoe Bataan
Listen to The Lost Sessions - New York 1976 by Joe Bataan
ALBUMThe Lost Sessions - New York 1976Joe Bataan
Listen to Call My Name by Joe Bataan
ALBUMCall My NameJoe Bataan
Listen to Joe Bataan II by Joe Bataan
ALBUMJoe Bataan IIJoe Bataan
Listen to Mestizo (Bonus Version) by Joe Bataan
ALBUMMestizo (Bonus Version)Joe Bataan
Listen to Afrofilipino by Joe Bataan
ALBUMAfrofilipinoJoe Bataan
Listen to Sweet Soul by Joe Bataan
ALBUMSweet SoulJoe Bataan
Listen to Mr. New York and the East Side Kids by Joe Bataan
ALBUMMr. New York and the East Side KidsJoe Bataan
Listen to Saint Latin's Day Massacre by Joe Bataan
ALBUMSaint Latin's Day MassacreJoe Bataan
Listen to Poor Boy by Joe Bataan
ALBUMPoor BoyJoe Bataan
Listen to Singin' Some Soul (Bonus Track Version) by Joe Bataan
ALBUMSingin' Some Soul (Bonus Track Version)Joe Bataan
Listen to Subway Joe by Joe Bataan
ALBUMSubway JoeJoe Bataan
Listen to Gypsy Woman by Joe Bataan
ALBUMGypsy WomanJoe Bataan

Joe Bataan's Popular Music Videos

Watch I Wish You Love, Pt. 21 (feat. JOE BATAAN , Orestes Vilató & LAMOUR EVANS ) music video by Michael ACE
I Wish You Love, Pt. 21 (feat. JOE BATAAN , Orestes Vilató & LAMOUR EVANS )
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About Joe Bataan

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Hometown
Harlem, NY, United States
Born
November 15, 1942
Genre
Música tropical
No recording artist has more impeccable street credentials than Joe Bataan, the originator of the New York Latin soul style that paralleled Latin boogaloo and anticipated disco. His musical experience began with street corner doo wop in the 1950s, and came to include one of the first rap records to hit the charts, 1979's "Rap-O, Clap-O." In between these milestones, he recorded classic albums like Saint Latin's Day Massacre, a perennial favorite in the salsa market, Salsoul, which gave the record label its name and helped spark the national explosion of urban dance music, and Afrofilipino, which included one of the very earliest New York disco hits, an instrumental version of Gil Scott-Heron's "The Bottle." Born Peter Nitollano, of African-American/Filipino parents, Joe Bataan grew up in Spanish Harlem, where he ran with Puerto Rican gangs and absorbed R&B, Afro-Cuban, and Afro-Rican musical influences. His music career followed a pair of stints in Coxsackie State Prison. Self-taught on the piano, he organized his first band in 1965 and scored his first recording success in 1967 with "Gypsy Woman" on Fania Records. The tune was a hit with the New York Latin market despite its English lyrics sung by Bataan, and exemplified the nascent Latin soul sound. In early anticipation of the disco formula, "Gypsy Woman" created dance energy by alternating what was fundamentally a pop-soul tune with a break featuring double-timed handclaps. Bataan would take this tendency even further on his influential Salsoul, which fused funk and Latin influences in slick yet soulful orchestrations. Salsoul remains influential as a rare groove cult item, and pointed to the future at the time of its release. The LP embodied the artist's highly deliberate and culturally aware musical concept. Bataan theorized the '70s next big thing as a hybrid: an Afro Cuban rhythm section playing Brazilian influenced patterns over orchestral funk. In many ways, his vision was on the money, though most of the money would go to others and mainstream stardom would elude him. He did, however, get in on the ground floor of the new trend as an early hitmaker. His biggest commercial move was a Salsoul production released under the Epic umbrella, and promoted to the new disco market as Afrofilipino, which included 1975's "The Bottle," a much-anthologized classic that drives an R&B horn arrangement with a relentless piano montuno. Always in touch with the street, Joe Bataan picked up on rap very early in the game. His minor rap hit, "Rap-O, Clap-O" was a bit more successful in Europe than in the States, and is remembered as rap's debut in the European market. Nevertheless, his legacy remains his gritty and realistic Latin soul lyrics, his self-identification as an "Ordinary Guy", and his highly personal and prophetic merger of Latin and soul influences. ~ Richard Pierson

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