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Crooked Stilo: at the Vanguard of Music by Fusing Latin Rythmes with Contemporary Hip-Hop
Debut album “Puro Escandalo” (Pure Scandal)… is packed with rhythm, sensuality and pleasure
Woodland Hills, CA -- Fonovisa Records is proud to present Crooked Stilo who are spearheading the new generation of contemporary Latin music. Creating a fusion of the hip-hop genre that goes beyond novel trends and that has everything to do with their cultural upbringing. On their debut album “Puro Escandalo” available this week in the United States, the group offers a high dose of rhythms, sensuality and pleasure on each of their tracks.
Crooked Stilo are anything but a typical urban regional/hip-hop act.
The 12 songs that make up their debut album “Puro Escandalo,“ on Fonovisa Records, introduces Crooked Stilo as a group who have fused their musical origins of hip-hop to that of a mix with Latin music influences resulting in a concoction of cumbia, salsa, merengue, sonidero rhythms with that of modern rap and hip-hop in Spanish.
Lyrically the group voices their identity, both ethnic and personal, in a ‘sensually scandalous’ album. Tracks such as “Acepto Mi Derrota”, “Mis Colegialas”, “Bonita y Mentirosa” and “No Soy De Una Sola Mujer” are prime examples of the groups’ musical prowess. In addition the album features special guests renowned urban regional group Akwid on the track “Es Un Escandalo.” Lastly, the album includes English language versions of the tracks “Ya Lo Saben“ and Chicas del Reventon.“
Already climbing the music charts, the first single titled “Ya Los Saben” is a cumbia-ridden provocative track that features a ‘sampling’ of a popular tropical song ‘La Boa.’ The video of the single features a very special cameo appearance by Jorge Hernandez leader of Norteño music icons Los Tigres del Norte who embraces the new generation and the convergence of music genres in the United States.
Crooked Stilo combines Latino music that they heard from their parents with the new sounds they encountered in Los Angeles. They bring together: Celia Cruz, Willy Chirino, Angeles Negros, Rigo Tovar, Sonora Santanera, Camilo Sesto, Los Hermanos Flores, Orquesta San Vicente, Los Bukis with NWA, Gangstarr, EPMD, Big Daddy Kane, Mellow Man Ace, Biz Markie, Cypress Hill, ALT, Snoop Dogg, Tupac, and Notorious BIG. They baptized their new style as ‘crooked’ because, “it consists of combining Latin music and new hip hop music,” says Johnny.
Crooked Stilo are the Lopez brothers: Victor AKA ‘Luna’ Lunatiko and Johnny AKA ‘El Duke’ who were born a year apart in San Salvador, El Salvador. Raised by their parents in a country with a bleak future and torn by civil war, the family fled El Salvador and moved to the United States to start a new life.
The family first arrived to the East Los Angeles housing projects and then moved to Central Los Angeles, where the brothers faced not only cultural shock but the plight of survival in the streets, soon making the brothers stray from the right path.
One too many trips to the local police station forced their parents to send Victor and Johnny back to El Salvador. Two years later upon their return to the United States in a positive life- changing experience, the brothers met a neighbor who was an up and coming rap star that brought new meaning to their lives forever.
In 1998 Crooked Stilo started writing songs in both English and Spanish spending their hard-earned cash recording albums independently. The group released their own albums, which garnered them sales of more than 40,000 units at shows, indie stores and swap meets.
Puro Escandalo,” represents the solidification of a musical genre that has arisen from the barrios of Los Angeles with songs that paint a true mosaic of the duo’s musical influences, from hip-hop, “Crooked Stilo’s music will not pass inadvertently as just another trend, they will remain as a Stilo (true style).”
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