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Ghetto Brothers

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The Ghetto Brothers were a gang (or club) and music group founded in New York City's South Bronx in the late 1960s. [1]

24 relations: Bass guitar, Benjamin Melendez, Blake Baxter, Cornell Benjamin, Eddie Perez (politician), Funk, Gang, Garage rock, Guitar, Hartford, Connecticut, Hip hop music, Hoe Avenue peace meeting, Music of Latin America, Musical ensemble, Orlando Voorn, Puerto Rican Socialist Party, Puerto Rico, Rock en español, Rock music, Salsa music, Soul music, Techno, The Bronx, Young Lords.

Bass guitar

The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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Benjamin Melendez

Benjamin Melendez (1952 – May 28, 2017) was best known for brokering the gang truce in the Bronx and Harlem (New York City) in 1971.

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Blake Baxter

Blake Baxter (born 1963) is an American techno musician, associated with the first wave of Detroit techno.

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Cornell Benjamin

Cornell "Black Benji" Benjamin was a peace keeper of the Ghetto Brothers.

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Eddie Perez (politician)

Eduardo Alberto "Eddie" Perez (born 1957) is an American politician who served as mayor of Hartford, Connecticut from 2001-2010.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B).

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Gang

A gang is a group of associates, friends or members of a family with a defined leadership and internal organization that identifies with or claims control over territory in a community and engages, either individually or collectively, in illegal, and possibly violent, behavior.

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Garage rock

Garage rock (sometimes called 60s punk or garage punk) is a raw and energetic style of rock and roll that flourished in the mid-1960s, most notably in the United States and Canada, and has experienced various revivals in the last several decades.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Hartford, Connecticut

Hartford is the capital of the U.S. state of Connecticut.

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Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hopMerriam-Webster Dictionary entry on hip-hop, retrieved from: A subculture especially of inner-city black youths who are typically devotees of rap music; the stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rap; also rap together with this music.

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Hoe Avenue peace meeting

The Hoe Avenue Peace Meeting was an important gathering of New York City gangs on December 8, 1971, in the Bronx.

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Music of Latin America

The music of Latin America refers to music originating from Latin America, namely the Romance-speaking countries and territories of the Americas and the Caribbean south of the United States.

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Musical ensemble

A musical ensemble, also known as a music group or musical group, is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music, with the ensemble typically known by a distinct name.

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Orlando Voorn

Orlando Voorn (born 25 April 1968 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch DJ and electronic music producer.

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Puerto Rican Socialist Party

The Puerto Rican Socialist Party (Partido Socialista Puertorriqueño, PSP) was a Marxist and pro-independence political party in Puerto Rico seeking the end of United States of America control on the Hispanic and Caribbean island of Puerto Rico.

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Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico (Spanish for "Rich Port"), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, "Free Associated State of Puerto Rico") and briefly called Porto Rico, is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean Sea.

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Rock en español

Rock en español (Spanish-language rock) is a term used widely in the English-speaking world to refer any kind of rock music featuring Spanish vocals.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Salsa music

Salsa music is a popular dance music that initially arose in New York City during the 1960s.

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Soul music

Soul music (often referred to simply as soul) is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Techno

Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan, in the United States during the mid-to-late 1980s.

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The Bronx

The Bronx is the northernmost of the five boroughs of New York City, in the U.S. state of New York.

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Young Lords

The Young Lords, later Young Lords Organization and, in New York (notably Spanish Harlem), Young Lords Party, was a Puerto Rican leftist group in several United States cities, notably New York City, and in Lincoln Park, Chicago, the Neighborhood in which they were born.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghetto_Brothers

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