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Elmo Preston, Elmo's Fire Blues Band

ELMO PRESTON WAS BORN IN SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO IN 1952.HE STARTED PLAYING MUSIC AT THE EARLY AGE OF 13 YEARS OLD.THERE HE TOURED THE CARIBBEAN PLAYING WITH SALSA AND CALYPSO BANDS. HE MOVED TO CHICAGO IN THE EARLY SEVENTIES, WHERE HE STUDIED MUSIC AT ROOSELVELT UNIVERSITY AND THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO CIRCLE CAMPUS.

HE WAS IN CHICAGO FOR 20 YEARS WHERE HE PLAYED REGGAE AND CALYPSO FOR 10 YEARS WITH NUMEROUS BANDS INCLUDING HIS OWN WORLD BEAT BAND (SCANDAL FRONT). ALSO IS VERYY EXPERINCED IN THE REGGAE MUSIK, SKA CALIPSO AND AFRICAN MUSIC. REGGAE BANDS HE HAS PLAYED INCLUDE, JYPSI FARI, YABBA GRIFFITS & TRAX, ONE LOVE, BIG RED & THE PROFETIONALS,KOFI KONFO ( AFRICAN MUSIC ), SCANDAL FRONT & MANNY MORE

HE ALSO LEARNED THE BLUES WITH THE CHICAGO BLUES GODS.HE FOLLOWED AND ASKED THIS BLUES PLAYERS TO TEACH HIM. CHRONICLED THEIR LIFE HYSTORIES AND PLAYING STYLES, SOME OF THEM BECAME HIS TEACHERS AND MENTORS WICH ARE MANNY AS YOU CAN SEE. (Otis Rush, Magic Slim, Sugar Blues, Lefty Dizz, Dion Payton, James Weller, Big Time Sarah, Buster Benton, Billy Branch, Carey & Lurie Bell, Carlos Johnson, Donald Kinsey, Home Sick James, John Little John, Kennie Kneal, Michael Coleman, Johnny Dollar, Lonnie Brooks, Sammy Fender among many others). IN 1994 HE FORMED AN ORIGINAL LATIN JAZZ BAND, ( EL MALO).

ELMO AN ACOMPLISHED NEW WORLD BEAT, BLUES AND JAZZ GUITARIST AND VOCALIST IS ALSO A MULTI - INSTRUMENTALIST.PLAYS GUITAR, BASS, PIANO AND PERCUSIONS. PRESENTLY HE IS PLAYING WITH HIS BLUES BAND (ELMO'S FIRE AND THE BLUE FLAMES) AND A LATIN JAZZ/ROCK SEXTET. HAS MANNY DIVERSE STILES WICH IS NOW MANIFESTED IN HIS MUSIC.

Plays Blues, R&B, Funk, Blues rock, Latin rock, Calypso, Reggae, and Reggaeton.