Tabaco

2) A Salsa artist from Venezuela

1) Generally speaking, in the psychedelic era the further the music was formulated from its English-speaking cultural centers, the stranger and more garbled it became. Such was the case to some degree with the Spanish band Tabaco, which recorded the Desintegracion album in late 1971. Sung mostly in English, the record was a mishmash of punky garage rock with heavy blues and soul influences, fierce Santana-like instrumental rock with rocket noises (the title track), brooding psychedelia introduced by flamenco-like guitar, and easy listening flamenco-flavored pop balladry. Although longer on enthusiastic eclecticism than originality and top-level chops, it was a fitfully imaginative effort that, whether by unconscious virtue of the band's distance from the U.S. and U.K. or not, boasted a ragged eccentricity. The Barcelona group grew out of a band called Los Duendes, which in June 1971 set a world record by playing 27 hours of rock & roll nonstop. Shortly after that, their name was changed to Tabaco and more progressive influences were incorporated. They disbanded in 1973. ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide

Their music was psychedelic and progressive. Their only album was edited by Spiral and just 50 copies were released. It contains both instrumental and vocal tracks, sung in english and spanish. Tabaco kept on the road until 1973, when they dissolved. Mariano abandoned music. Eduardo has been playing until nowadays. Jordi joined a Jazz band and Josep has re-joined Los Duendes (former name of Tabaco, when Jordi, Eduardo and Josep were in it) with a new line-up that preserves the original spirit of the band.

The rarest Spanish psychedelic gem ever. This legendary, almost impossible to get album was recorded in Barcelona in 1971. Re-released for the first time on CD and straight from the master tapes by Prosecco Media, Germany, in 2003.

2) Carlos Quintana (Caracas, September 15, 1943 - Caracas, May 30, 1995), nicknamed "Tabaco" was a Venezuelan bongo player and singer. He was a member of two large well-known salsa groups, the "Sexteto Juventud" and "Tabaco y sus Metales", the latter of which he was the founded.

He began to train as a musician on the corners of San José. His youth coincided with thr emergence of street salsa brava, that of the rebellion of the trombones of Palmieri and Mon Rivera and the Spanglish sound of Joe Cuba's sextet.

He earned his nickname because of his height: he was so tall that they began to call him "tabaquito". Carlos Quintana worked as a shoeshine boy, and when he finished his work, he would run to meet his great passion, music. According to him, he would leave without wasting time going directly towards the 23 de Enero area in Caracas to listen to the rehearsals of a group that was being born and get away from their hard work.

Over time, Carlos Quintana got to know each of the members of the group until in 1963, when he was barely 20 years old, he was recommended by his friend Elio Pacheco to Olinto Medina, the leader of that band. Olinto was getting ready to rehearse "Guasancó" and the singer they were counting on did not reach the tune. They tried Quintana and Elio's recommendation had an effect: "Tabaco" did its thing, very well. Thus the Juventud Sextet had a new voice and something else, because Carlos Quintana was able to walk through all the instruments of the group.