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Joe Bataan – Call My Name


Joe Bataan (also spelled Bataán) (born 1942, in Spanish Harlem, New York City) is an Afro-Filipino American Latin R&B musician from New York. In 1965, he turned his attention to music and formed his first band, Joe Bataan and the Latin Swingers. Bataan was influenced by two musical styles: the Latin boogaloo and African American doo-wop. Though Bataan was neither the first nor only artist to combine doo-wop-style singing with Latin rhythms, his talent for it drew the attention of Fania Records. After signing with them in 1966, Bataan released “Gypsy Woman,” in 1967. (The title track is a Latin dance cover of “Gypsy Woman” by The Impressions.) He would, in full, release eight original titles for Fania which included the gold-selling “Riot!”. As a vocalist, Bataan’s fame in the Latin music scene at the time was only rivaled by Ralfi Pagan and Harvey Averne.

After his 1981 album, “Bataan II,” he retired from music-making to spend more time with his family and ended up working as a youth counselor in one of the reformatories he himself had spent time in as a teenager. In 2005, Bataan broke his long hiatus with the release of “Call My Name,” a well-received album recorded for Spain’s Vampisoul label.

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