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Jugo De Mango / Press

"Actualmente, los artistas latinos alternativos de Chicago, si bien pocos y espaciados, son un elemento estelar en cualquier evento dado que sus sonidos son unicos. Jugo de Mango, Vivian Garcia, Alla, y The Luna Blues Machine son ejemplos de este exquisito talento."...

"At a certain point, you look at what you have accomplished and get scared about what you haven't." For Jugo de Mango's Armando Perez, that was the musical turning point in his life. In 2010, after a decade of playing in rock bands at house shows and all-ages dives like the Fireside Bowl, Perez was broaching 30 and reflecting on his roots. No longer a young punk automatically rejecting the cultural heritage he had as a first-generation American born of Mexican parents, he began to embrace it with a nostalgic heart. Perez and Jugo de Mango co-founder Juan Lugo, who is Panamanian, decided it was time to start writing and singing songs in Spanish, and they began reworking older songs of theirs into an acoustic setting that is heavily influenced by traditional Latin and Afro-Cuban sounds.