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So we have got to be honest here. At first glance of this group Law Of Attraction you notice two hot vocalists. That was more than enough to get us intrigued. Next you turn on the music and you are drawn from your seat right to the dance floor or empty space in the room you are in. Law Of Attraction is the first Latin group with Reggae influence that we have covered in A2W. They merge various genres together like we have never enjoyed before. There are eight different musicians that make up this group. They all help to create the amazing music that this group is becoming known for. We enjoyed all the tracks we heard but we really loved, “Why’d You Lie.” The vocals and composition are just great. This music grabs you & pulls you in. Grab a partner, turn the volume up and enjoy Law Of Attraction. - Skope Entertainment Magazine
..."Then there’s the kind of soul felt deep down — in the gravy-and-red-chile-tasty sense. The sexy sense, that is, as in Sweet Soul Music. In Albuquerque, there are no finer purveyors of that sort of soul than
Law of Attraction (L of A), the eight-member
funky-salsa jam band that is best
described in one fan’s delirious declaration at a recent show: “They’re like Springsteen’s
E Streeters meet The Supremes and Carlos Santana on Isleta Boulevard!� Hype? Sure, but the L of A sizzle is that good. The front line of Latina vocalist-dancers
Elizabeth Smith and Lydia Garcia
share moves with poet-MC Hakim Bellamy and singer-guitarist Dan Garduño, with Eric Owens on bass, Gabe Harrington on keyboards and drummer Camilo Quinones.
Founder and sax player Delmone Taylor explains that the band’s name “refers to an esoteric principle that you get what you
think about and your thoughts determine your experience.� Put another way: “We’re
New Mexico’s All Star Band,� Taylor says, “a new indescribable fl avor, like gumbo, that downhome sound that gives you a warm fuzzy feeling all over your body. It’s food for your soul.�
A Law of Attraction show can shift
rapidly from hot salsa to r-and-b to witty jibes mixed with choreographed dance moves. The audiences eat it up. You can
get a taste yourself at The Launchpad and other Burque clubs. Check the L of A MySpace page for upcoming shows.
—Bill Nevins is a contributing
editor to albuquerqueARTS.
Catch more original
articles about music at
www.abqarts.com. - albuquerqueARTS Magazine
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We're New Mexico's ALL-STAR band! taking the very best of what the Southwest has to offer, throwing it all together in one pot to cook up what we call GUMBO MUSIC!! you can't duplicate our sound as we ALL march to the beat of a different drum, yet fly on the same plane!! ...plus, have you seen our "eye candy?!" the LATIN LOVELYS are sure to turn heads!
ALWAYS FRONT AND CENTER!! introducing.... THE LATIN LOVELYS of Law of Attraction!! Ms. Lydia Garcia and Elizabeth Smith.
Lydia Garcia (Vocals)-"The Movement"
Quote: "I'm not really out here trying to become an American Idol, I want to take people to that same place where music has taken me: Away from a sometimes turbulent reality."
From where?: Everywhere by way of Los Angeles, California.
From a family where 4 guitars, 15 singers and 20-plus dancers, was their idea of a "get together". On the suggestion of her mother, she picked up a guitar at age 8. At age 19, her mother had a different suggestion...that the daughter of a minister shouldn't be gracing bars after hours and hangin' out with miscreant musicians. Limited to a singin' diet of weddings and quincianeras, she had to get her "Halleluah" voice out from under her parents' roof. Fortunately, she found a new family in the church of music. Her new worship includes the beloved audience and the spirit of world music. She's sung, songwritten and danced for bands that have played Salsa, Reggae, Tejano and Afro Latin music. Classically trained in the "school of life", she's known for adding her own latin feel every track she's fingerprinted. She's received Best Bi-lingual Duet of the Year from the New Mexico Music Awards and been nominated for other songs as well.
Elizabeth Padilla Ortiz Smith (Vocals)-"The Songstress"
Quote: "For only her second time on stage it was evident that this was what Elizabeth was born to do." or "I was Cum Laude, Beyotch!"
From where?: Burque Native
In 1994 at Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church, an 11 year-old gave this world her voice for the very first time at the suggestion of her guitar playing, songwriting father. She's wandered away from this calling since, but it keeps serenading her back in. 5 years after her church debut she entered a contest won a chance to sing in a competition in New York City, placing 4th out of 500 contestants. College life introduced her to her mentor, Choral Professor Bradley Ellingboe, and her future husband, all on her way to a B.A. in Music. Her University of New Mexico singing career included the all women's choir - Las Cantantes, a Department of Music Scholarship, a nomination for the Twenty-Seventh Annual College of Fine Arts Senior Prize and a four year run on the College of Fine Arts Dean's List. A trained opera singer, she's been part of gigs as diverse as the delivering of the beams from the World Trade Center Twin Towers after 9/11 that were used in the reconstruction of a church tower in Albuquerque and singing for a naturalization ceremony in Albuquerque where 450 people became US citizens.
Delmone Taylor (Sax)- "The Chef ... combining all the right and wrong elements"
Quote: "It didn't make sense to me, and I didn't want to give the gift of music to people and not be able to tell them how to earn a living with the very same thing I taught them to be so passionate about."
From where?: Fairbanks, Alaska by way of Seoul, Korea.
Mother from New Orleans and there, he first touched the sax at seven. Sensei's like Mr. "Kidd" Jordan, Brian Dickerson, Dan Goble, Ted DeCorso, Lyle Dockendorff, David Sanchez, Ernie Watts and Wynton Marsalis. At 19, long before a UNM B.A. in Music Education, He toured Europe with the UAF Jazz Band. Since, in Albuquerque, he's been part of such fine musical outfits like La Junta, Felonious Groove Foundation and Mystic Vision. He had a plan to take over the world one show at a time and realized he needed some friends to put in on this. The CEO of Taylor Made Real Estate AND Taylor Made Records, he stays high on this life by being a tireless supporter of the Burque music scene, and passionately suggests that you do the same, "It doesn't have to be my show, or even the bands I play in, but please just go see SOMEONE!!" Get up now, go! Run, flee your homes!
Camilo Quinones (Percussion)- "The Prodigy"
Quote:
From where?: Burque Native
From the storied lineage of Quinones percussionist, he has chosen to follow in the footsteps of his father Tony Quinones, Uncle Rafael Quinones and his brother Marc Quinones. The product of a Puerto Rican Father and a Cubana Mother, he's been studying the sounds made by skins and hollow objects since he was seven. He shared the stage with such giants as Tito Puente Sr., Tito Puente Jr., The Allman Brothers Bands, Carlos Santana, The Spanish Harlem Orquestra, Poncho Sanchez, Polanco y su cunjunto and Ozomatli. He's pretty much been called a "Genius" (or Timbalero of the Year) by the New
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