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Mike Laure: Mexican Rock ‘N’ Roll Pioneer And King Of Tropical Music
The first electric guitar in Chapala, México is said to have arrived in the hands of Miguel Laurel Rubio, the artist who called himself Mike Laure (pronounced Mikay Lau-rey).
Alumbra luna mike laure biography
In , Laure christened his band Mike Laure y sus Cometas in an unveiled homage to Bill Haley and his Comets. The Mexican group soon had the kids in the Jalisco resort town dancing rock-and-roll at the lakeside Beer Garden restaurant, where they crowded the house performing numbers like “El Estudiante del Rock,” a Spanish version of Fats Domino’s “Ain’t That a Shame.”
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By , Haley himself was living in Mexico, where he arrived along with the twist, and started promoting the new dance craze with songs he surprisingly recorded in Spanish.
Laure, always hip to new sounds, quickly turned out his own singles like “Cacahuete Twist,” which riffs on the Cuban classic “The Peanut Vendor,” “Manzanillo Twist,” and “La Guitarra Fel