Chico Arnéz
Chico Arnéz (real name John Claude Davies)[1] was a London-based Latin bandleader of the 1960s and 1970s.[2][3] Arnez also played bongo drums and authored a textbook on bongo playing (1959).[4][5][6]
Arnéz was born in England. He married Margaret Ketchell, with whom he had two children.[7][8]
He managed the singer Blanche Finlay.
Discography[edit]
- Sound of Chico Arnez
- From Chico With Love
- Chico
- Non Stop Dance Party
- This is Chico, This is Keely
- Unknown Soldier Worships
References[edit]
- ^ "Band star in court mystery". Sandwell Evening Mail. 5 February 1980. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
- ^ David Griffiths - Hot Jazz: From Harlem to Storyville 1998 p62 "My manager at the time sent me down to London to audition for the famous bandleader, Chico Arnez. I remember going along there and only singing four bars, just four bars of music, and he offered me a twenty-five-year contract with a retainer ..."
- ^ The Gramophone Volume 52 - Page 1243 1974 "Chico Arnez is less successful with the rather corny "Non-Stop Dance Party" (Music for Pleasure MFP- 50179)
- ^ Kenneth A. Mueller Teaching total percussion 1972 Page 213 Bongos Made Easy by Chico Arnez (New Sound in Modern Music; 1959) a fully illustrated book on playing the bongos Latin American Rhythm Instruments and ..."
- ^ Mark Miller Jazz in Canada: fourteen lives 1982 Page 52 As a member of a Latin band led by one Chico Arnez he went to Germany to play for personnel on the us military bases there.
- ^ International Who's who in Music and Musicians' Directory 1975 Sound of Chico Arnez; From Chico With Love; Chico; Non Stop Dance Party: This is Chico This is Keely; Unknown Soldier Worships: PRS; Songwriters' Guild; Variety Club of Gt Britain. Hobbies: Football; Swimming; Painting. Address: 102.
- ^ "From Las Vegas to the local". Birmingham Evening Mail. 8 July 1978. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
- ^ "Birth registration of daughter". FreeBMD. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
