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Chico Mann Transcript
This is Chico Mann, aka Marcos Garcia – a 36-year-old Brooklyn-based musician who likes to blend Latin funk and Afrobeat with vintage drum machines to create a new musical genre he likes to call Afrofreestyle.
His records are unique and funky. And since the release of his first album, Manifest Tone, Volume 1, his fan base has grown steadily.
But when the time came for Garcia to take his one-man-band on tour, he found himself with an interesting problem.
“Well you know the thing is, when I first started recording as Chico Mann, I had no intention of playing it live. That was … I didn’t even really think about that because it was electronic. It wasn’t until Kindred Spirits wanted to release the first album, they were like, ‘So, what’s the band?’ and I was like ‘I don’t know…I have no…’ Like, I didn’t… all of the sudden it was like, wake...
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