Redbone
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People with the surname
Redbone (band)
Redbone is a Native American rock group originated in the 1970s from brothers Pat and Lolly Vasquez. They reached the Top 5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1974 with their #1 hit single, "Come and Get Your Love". The single went certified Gold selling over half a million copies. Redbone achieved hits with their singles "The Witch Queen of New Orleans" and "Maggie" in the U.S. but predominately overseas. Redbone is known and accredited in the NY Smithsonian as the first Native American rock/cajun group to have a #1 single internationally and in the United States.
History
Originally born in Coalinga, California near Fresno, brothers Patrick (bass and vocals) and Candido "Lolly" Vasquez-Vegas (guitar and vocals) moved to Los Angeles in 1969 to form the group Redbone with mere cents in their pockets due to Pat winning the first ever singing competition held by Coca-Cola. He won a recording contract and travel to create a career which he then put off to move to Los Angeles with his brother Lolly. They began playing local shows on Hollywood and Sunset Blvd, at local clubs like Gazzari's, as well as writing and playing guitar and bass on records by Tina Turner, Sonny & Cher, James Brown, Little Richard, Elvis, and other legendary names.
Redbone (ethnicity)
Redbone is a term historically used in much of the southern United States to denote a multi-racial individual or culture. In Louisiana, it also refers to a specific, geographically and ethnically distinct group.
The roots of the word originate in Jamaica where the word ‘Red Ibo’ was used to describe certain fair-skinned people who lived in the harbor areas. Among the slaves taken to Jamaica from the Bight of Biafra, many were of Igbo descent, an ethnic group comparatively lighter-skinned than other African populations. Today, the term has spread throughout the Americas - and is used to describe a variety of mixed ethnic groups.
Definition
The term has had various meanings according to locality, mostly implying multiracial people.
In Louisiana, the Redbone cultural group consists mainly of the families of migrants to the state from South Carolina following the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. These individuals may have ancestral ties to the Melungeons. The term Redbone became disfavored as it was a pejorative nickname applied by others; however, in the past 30 years the term has begun to be used as the preferred description for some creole groups, including the Louisiana Redbones.
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ALBUMS
- The Essential Redbone released: 2003
- The Very Best of Redbone released: 1991
- Wovoka released: 1973
- Already Here released: 1972
- Message From a Drum released: 1971
- The Witch Queen of New Orleans released: 1971
- Potlatch released: 1970
- Redbone released: 1970
- Greatest Hits released:
The Very Best of Redbone
Released 1991- The Witch Queen of New Orleans
- Come and Get Your Love
- Wovodka
- Niki Hokey
- The Sun Never Shines on the Lonely
- Niji Trance
- Fais-do
- Maggie
- Poison Ivy
- Only You and Rock and Roll
- We Were All Wounded at Wounded Knee
- Chant: 12th Hour
- When You Got Trouble
- Light as a Feather
- Suzi Girl
- Power
- Tennessee Girl
- Message From a Drum
- One More Time
- Alcatraz
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Already Here
by: RedboneFais do-fais do, fais do-fais do
Fais do play the bambula beat - fais do-fais do
Fais do play it out in the street - fais do-fais do
Fais do do it like a bim-bam-boom
Fais do holler like a dog at moon
Dance under the voodoo moon
Dance out of your body's gloom
Dance into your spirit room
Dance, dance, dance
Fais do-fais do, fais do-fais do
Fais do, fais do music man - fais do-fais do
Whip it on me, whip it on me like you can - fais do-fais
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Fais do play bambula beat
Fais do oo-ma-boom-a-bim-bam-boom
Dance under the voodoo moon
Dance out of your body's gloom
Dance into your spirit room
Dance, dance, dance
Fais do-fais do, fais do-fais do ....
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