Biography: Joe Arroyo, Joe Bataan, Joe Cuba, Joe Davis, Joe Flores, Joe Holiday, Joe King, Joe Loco, Joe López, Joe Posada,

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A diverse sampling of Caribbean music styles, including salsa, compas, merengue, reggae and soca, is fused into the dance-inspiring sounds of Colombia-born vocalist Joe Arroyo (born: Alvaro Jose Arroyo Gonzalez)

No recording artist has more impeccable street credentials than Joe Bataan, the originator of the New York Latin Soul style that paralleled Latin bugalu and anticipated disco

Joe Cuba’s music career started with La Alfarona X in 1950 In 1955 the Joe Cuba Sextet came into being and his vibraharp sound caught on In 1962, when the group recorded “To Be with You” for Seeco Records, the band began to soar to popularity because of Nick Jimenez’s arrangements and the vocals of Cheo Feliciano and Jimmy Sabater

In the Latin and bossa nova market, Joe Davis is known as the producer of progressive, nova bossa ensembles as well as the creator of a popular series of compilations including the best-selling Brazilian Love Affair collections

Considering how popular “la musica norteña” eventually became, there was nothing pompous about Joe Flores kicking off an album side with a song by Rolando Pena entitled “A Todo Dar,” or “giving to everyone

Joe Holiday is a bassist working out of San Francisco who is associated with bands such as the popular salsa unit Azabache ~ Eugene Chadbourne, All Music Guide

There are not that many Latin artists who get confused with the leaders of American punk rock groups, the obvious reason being that the names of performers in the former genre usually sound just as Latin as the music they are making

A composer of numerous hit recordings, quality music orchestrator and top contender for the title of “most melodic pianist” Started with Montecino’s Happy Boys in 1938

Singer/guitarist Joe López met Jimmy González while attending high school in Brownsville, TX Sharing a passion for popular music, they assembled a band called Grupo Mazz in 1978, becoming one of the first Tejano acts to introduce keyboards

In addition to being one of Tejano’s greatest saxophone players, Joe Posada is the most skillful composer to fuse jazz and Tejano in the ’90s Citing John Coltrane, Jeff Lorber and Alfonso Ramos as influences, his ability to integrate jazz chord progressions and scatting into the polka beat has brought Tejano one step closer to the multi-genre fusion claimed, but not always achieved, by the genre’s boosters

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