Carlos Mora Raps in Spanish for Pepsi
March 6, 2006 – 10:12 pm | by Duncan
I’ve just had a Skype call from Carlos Mora, the guy who raps in Spanish in the Pepsi Samba TV ad with the dancing legs. I’d had an email from Eden, the Song Zu composer responsible for the music, alerting me to the release of the music ‘Asereko’ as a single this week. So I wrote it up at Duncan’s TV Adland.
Carlos grew up in Glebe, Sydney, gaining experience as a choir boy and a punk drummer before going to Cuba to learn the congas. He gave me the lyrics to the new single, some background on his musical influences (Afro Cuban rap and Latin jazz), and a link to his band’s web site.
It’s good being part of the ’spicy tossed leaf salad’ multicultural Australia as opposed to the ‘melting pot’ assimilation version.
Tags: Advertising, Australia, Music
