{"id":48525,"count":1,"description":"Malo was an American Latin-tinged rock and roll group. The San Francisco-based ensemble was led by Arcelio Garcia and Jorge Santana, the brother of Latin-rock guitarist, Carlos Santana.\nFour of Malo's original members (Santana, Garcia, Tellez, and Bean) had previously played in a band called \"The Malibus\". The other three founding members (Abel Zarate, Roy Murray, and Richard Spremich) had played together in a band called \"Naked Lunch\". \nMalo's 1972 Top 20 hit single, \"Suavecito,\" was written by timbale player Richard Bean, who initially wrote it as a poem for a girl in his high school algebra class. The song has been called \"The Chicano National Anthem\" and was arranged for Malo by Richard Bean, bassist Pablo Tellez, and Abel Zarate. Tellez and Zarate also received co-author credits on \"Suavecito\". Guitarist Abel Zarate gave Malo a distinctive two-guitar sound with intricate harmony and dual solos the norm. The band featured full horn and percussion sections in the style of...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/malo\/","name":"Malo","slug":"malo","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/48525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=48525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}