Where in Cuba did Kool and the Gang recently perform?”
In the Popular Orange Bowl Halftime show, Kool and the Gang and their numerous hit songs including, “Jungle Boogie,” “Get Down on It,” Ladies’ Night,” and “Celebrate,” and have performed at places where they apparently were loved unconditionally. Kool and the Gang have sold more than 70 million albums international, and are an American Jazz. R&B (Soul/Funk) and disco group, who originally formed in New Jersey in 1964. But Sunday at the Miami stadium for the Orange Bowl show 2010, the “Gang,” rocked the stadium with a concert that set the halftime crowd ablaze. One of the leading and best bands of the 60’s and 70’s they exactly performed like it was a concert. At the Land Shark Stadium in Florida the band together with Brothers Robert and Ronald Bell along with the rest of the “Gang,” gifted the fans and the audience to a performance not regularly seen these days. No record shop has ever sold their music, and nobody had ever seen them perform live, but the Cubans have engaged them into
No record store here has ever sold their music, and before Sunday, no one in the country had ever seen the band live. Yet for decades Cubans have loved Kool and the Gang, seemingly unconditionally. Cuba filmmaker Gloria Rolando said the band’s funky sound provided the soundtrack for her generation’s coming of age in the late 1960s and 1970s. And even though there was a brief period in the 1960s when the communist government outright banned American music and frowned on it during the subsequent decade when it was rarely heard on government airwaves, Rolando remembers K&G’s music “playing everywhere.” “It was a period of time that we didn’t listen openly, in public, but the people never stopped listening to good American music. There were always underground ways.” She recalls exercising at home to K&G and dancing to the music at teen parties. “The music made you happy when you were down, told you to celebrate life,” Rolando said. Sunday afternoon, Kool and the Gang played in an open-air
