Biography: Pena Branca & Xavantinho, Pepe Aguilar, Pepe Aranda, Pepe Cabrera, Pepe Guízar, Pepe Vásquez, Pepe y J.R., Pepeu Gomes, Peppino Di Capri, Pagode Jazz Sardinha's Club,

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Pena Branca & Xavantinho Biography, Photos, Pictures

Pena Branca e Xavantinho were one of the most artistic and original duos of the contemporary “caipira” (hillbilly) universe They were also innovative by including in their repertory pieces by urban composers like Djavan, Caetano Veloso, and Milton Nascimento

Pepe Aguilar Biography, Photos, Pictures

Born in the US but raised in Zacatecas, Mexico, son of recording legends Antonio Aguilar and Flor Silvestre, Pepe Aguilar was influenced and supported by his parents to start singing

Classically trained as a child, Pepe Aranda has grown into one of Latin music’s foremost pop singers Residing in Ecuador, Aranda is a two-time winner of the OTI (National Songwriter) Awards

Pepe Cabrera Biography, Photos, Pictures

Hailing from the drug-rich city of Culiacana, the capital of Sinoloa, located between the Pacific Ocean and the Sierra Madres Mountains of northwestern Mexico, Pepe Cabrera has emerged as the region’s leading songwriter

In regional Mexican music, Pepe Guízar has often been fondly referred to as El Pintor Musical de México — the Musical Painter of Mexico — and that is an appropriate name for the late composer because many of his songs vividly paint musical pictures of his country

Pepe Vásquez Biography, Photos, Pictures

Son of musician and researcher Porfirio Vásquez, singer/songwriter Pepe Vásquez started singing and playing guitar at a very young age, performing a folk genre originated in black Peruvian communities to preserve their heritage

Pepe Y JR are a pair of brothers — Jose de Jesus (“Pepe”) and Juan Ramos (“JR”) Ibarra — that perform original songs in the classic mariachi and ranchera tradition

Pepeu Gomes is a virtuoso guitarist/mandolinist who had noted participation in the ’70s revival of choro in the band Os Novos Baianos His solo career has been troubled by the hardships that prevent instrumental musicians in Brazil from developing their discoveries, but his recorded material is enough to make clear his uncanny, creative talent

Peppino Di Capri Biography, Photos, Pictures

Affectionately known as “the Italian Buddy Holly,” Peppino Di Capri helped to usher Italy into the rock & roll era of the 1950s Averaging ten singles a year for a decade, he and his band, Peppino & His Rockers, scored with such pre-Beatles hits as “Malatia,” “Voce ‘e Notte,” “Luba Caprese,” “Vicino ‘o Mare,” “Parlami D’amore Mariu,” and “Speedy Gonzalez

Pagode Jazz Sardinha's Club Biography, Photos, Pictures

Calling this band unusual is the least that can be said to describe the sound of the Pagode Jazz Sardinha’s Club Gathering some excellent instrumental musicians who had been working as sidemen for many of the most important artists of MPB and Brazilian instrumental music/jazz, the group produces a skillfully arranged, yet very peculiar and swinging synthesis of carioca/Bahian grooves (jongo, choro, samba, bossa nova) with jazz and funk through remarkable improvisational work

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