Based: Cape Town

THE DOCETONES BAND MEMBERS:
LEAD VOCALS AND RHYTHM GUITAR: JAY
SOLOIST GUITAR AND VOCALS: CLOVIS
BASS GUITAR AND BACK VOCALS: PATRICK
DRUMMER AND BACK VOCAS : YONG

Docetones is a four-man band with a unique and soulfully up-tempo sound. They started performing in 2006. “Doce means ‘sweet’ in Spanish, they are a group of talented musicians with an interesting musical background” culture and language diversity, says lead vocalist Jose Vilandy.

We are is truly one innovative band, fusing up-tempo Latin music with the soulful sounds of modern Afro-pop, Zouck, Kinzomba, Semba, Rumba and Kwassa Kwassa in 6 different languages, from Portugues, Spanish, English, French, Swahili, Lingala, and umbundu.

“We are very vibrant, energetic, yet soulful, calm, love vibes jazz soul rhythm and blues musically band’’

Our dynamic mix of music are influenced by the likes of Kassav from Cape Verde Antilhas, Bonga from Angola, Papa wemba from Congo DRC, Jimmy Dludlu from Mozambique, Roberto Carlos from Brazil, Slief Keita from Senegal, Mariem Makeba from South Africa, and much more sounds around the world. The Docetones have faced many challenges of being unrecognised because of their “foreign” and unique sound. But They’ve managed to beat the odds and to deliver their beautiful music to Africans, and hopefully, the rest of the world, with their iTunes released album, called wheel of love.

So if you are looking forward to tapping your fit, move your body and dance to the beat of the Drum, bass, solo and rhythm…. Welcome the DOCETONES…

 

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