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Affectionately known as the “Cucuy in the morning,” Renan Almendarez Coello has been steadily attracting new listeners to his Spanish language radio show on Los Angeles radio station, KSCA, 101
One of the most important groups of the Jovem Guarda, Renato e Seus Blue Caps was formed to play in parties of the Piedade borough in Rio de Janeiro In that period, the market for youth music was just being incepted and they were in the right place at the right time
Renato Borghetti is a unique case of an instrumentalist from a region almost disregarded by the mainstream musical industry in Brazil Nevertheless, he gained national and international recognition from his peers and popular success at the same time, performing instrumental music strongly connected to his roots and spiced with jazz and classical music elements
Renato Piau, composer of around 80 songs recorded by several Brazilian interpreters like Luís Melodia, Tim Maia, and Cássia Eller, moved to Rio de Janeiro in the early ’70s, invited by poet Torquato Neto, with whom he wrote several songs
Renato Russo was a highly successful rock/pop artist and the founder of the Legião Urbana band Even though the band broke up after his death, the band is still Brazil’s best-selling rock group
Renato Teixeira is an urban composer who discovered rather late the bucolic enchantments of the “caipira” (hillbilly) universe, trying to bring the genre to a larger audience
Rene (born 1980, René Darío Velazco Villazmil) from Puerto Cabello and Renny (born Mario Alfredo Donoso Cordoba) from Caracas met while participating in the Venezuelan tropical outfit Salserín
Devotees of this brilliant pianist might bicker about whether he was born in 1905 or 1906, but not about his importance to the country’s music scene Someone doing the tango just might not be doing it if there had been no Rene Cospito, while his Don Goyo quartet brought American jazz styles into the country’s music scene in a way that had been unimagined before
Talented musician of Mexican descent René Ornelas (born René Víctor Ornelas) began getting involved in popular music while singing and playing trumpet in his father’s band, the Mike Ornelas Orchestra, during the early ’50s
Although not as well-known to music audiences as Xavier Cugat or Pérez Prado, pianist and composer René Touzet was easily as influential in popularizing Latin rhythms in the U