This afro-Cuban-soul band is Hot and ready for attention! The leader of the band, L.A. native, Angel Ferreira was a dancer who toured with Madonna on her WHO'S THAT GIRL tour and had a deal with Virgin Records before the EMI buyout. As time changed, so did his sound into something that became a musical culmination of his personal life experiences. The pedigree is long but no need to tell you about it!  You can view Angel's webumentery on youtube at youtube.com/user/mambokats.
Angel's songs which appear on his self-produced CD, HORIZONTAL MAMBO, are nourishing songs of lost and found love in L.A.'s well healed districts. This Afro-Cuban Soul formula has taken years to brew! It all starts with his Momma buying him his first Michael Jackson LP record and learning how to sing the title song "BEN", watching his parents dance mambo and cha cha cha to Tito Puente and Celia Cruz's music, his father teaching him to play the conga drum, choreographing sk8r tricks to Aerosmith and Ted Nugent!, discovering dance as a runaway teen on a rooftop while listening to a transistor radio playing Michael Jackson's "You Got Me Workin Day and Night", witnessing the new sound of Hip Hop on the movie set of Beat Street, dancing and staging caberet show's in New york City, touring on a private jet around the world with Madonna as one of her dancers, getting signed to Virgin Records, To finally taking out of the oven The Mambokats afro cuban soul formula.
The sizzling afro cuban soul sound of Angel & The Mambokats  song called "BLACK MAMBO" has been heard by millions on the hottest TV shows worldwide. BLACK MAMBO is a fast mambo that describes his quest for infinite love and was first captured in the essence of dance by Americas favorite male and female dance contestants, Benji and Heidi from Fox Television's smash hit show, SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE. Then Beijing Olympic Beach Volleyball gold medalist, Misty May Traynor also dancing to BLACK MAMBO on the other monster hit show, DANCING WITH THE STARS.  Come and discover Angel Mambokat style on Facebook here: http://listn.to/ANGELANDTHEMAMBOKATS  Enjoy!