Amor, Familia y Respeto
A.B. III Quintanilla
Sheila E., Fito Olivares, Vico-C, Roger Troutman, Nu Flavor, Chris Perez
Engineer: Luigi Geraldo,
Producer: A.B. Quintanilla III
EMI Televisa Music, 1999
1 CD
Catalogue #: 99189
EAN: 0724349918924
UPC: 724349918924
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Full performer name: A.B. Quintanilla Y Los Kumbia Kings.
A.B. Quintanilla Y Los Kumbia Kings: A.B. "Phat Kat" Quintanilla III (bass, background vocals); Jason "DJ Kane" Cano (vocals); Alex "P.B." Ramirez, Cruz "C.K." Martinez (keyboards); Robert "Robbie" Del Moral (drums); Roy "Slim" Ramirez (percussion, background vocals); Jorge "Peanut" Pena (percussion); Andrew "Baby Drew" Maes (background vocals).
Recorded at Kat Kave Studios, Corpus Christi, Texas.
A.B. Quintanilla was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Tejano Performance.
AMOR, FAMILIA Y RESPETO was nominated for the 2000 Latin Grammy Award for Best Tejano Performance.
AMOR, FAMILIA Y RESPETO won the 2000 Billboard Latin Music Award for Album Of The Year by a new artist, and was nominated for the Album Of The Year by a group.
AMOR, FAMILIA Y RESPETO offers up a royal dose of Latin love. Once again, the Kumbia Kings deftly and coquettishly support the yearning boy-voice of leader Quintanilla. The Kings' matching outfits--part cricket, part tennis, part Adidas--mark the unified personality of this versatile and talented band. A sweet and forlorn ballad follows a happy "Super Mario Brothers"-esque synth mix of steel drum and calypso beats on "Reggae Kumbia." Things slip seamlessly from there into a groovy return of the classic "Azucar." They coo softly on "Together" and sweetly on "Con El Tic Tac Del Reloj." And clearly, it's not just the ladies to whom this set is directed; AMOR, FAMILA Y RESPETO is sprinkled throughout with funny clips and sampling. The Kumbia Kings have proven once again that they are an all-around bunch of good-time boys.
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Roger Troutman
Foot soldiers in George Clinton's extended family of funk, Hamilton, Ohio-born brothers Roger, Larry, Lester, Tony and Terry Troutman formed Zapp in the late-`70s, drawing on their love of funk outfits such as Ohio Players and Parliament-Funkadelic. After a series of false starts for obscure local labels, Troutman and Co. signed to Clinton's vanity label Uncle Jam, releasing their sprawling, vocoder-laden debut in 1980--an album that was eventually picked up by Jam's parent label Warner Brothers. They remained on Warner for a decade, honing their electro-funk craft on five albums, ending with 1989's ZAPP IV. Lead singer and talk-box maestro, Roger went on to pursue solo work during the `90s to varying success. The mid-'90s spawned renewed interest in the group when Zapp's (particularly Troutman's) signature cyborgized vocals began to be sampled by countless hip-hop groups, ushering in rap music's "G-Funk" sound.
