The Puerto Rican born, and Brooklyn based, brothers developed a unique sound by merging their soul and boogaloo-based grooves of the 1960s with their full embrace of Afro-Caribbean rhythms and the salsa culture being born in the 1970s. Although a central band for Latin Music lovers all over the world, when Fania Records bought the label Cotique, under which they launched many albums, the Lebron Brothers were unfairly placed in the shadow of more legible and marketable artists.

Even if better known songs like “Salsa y Control” and “Temperatura” truly changed the game, we chose “La Vuelta del Mundo”, this album’s opener, to show Pablo Lebrón’s soul and R&B phrasing at its best, as well as the progressive bridges and outros that would characterize Salsa Brava in the years to come, and for which the brothers were instrumental.