Steve Salas, a cofounder of the Los Angeles R&B band Tierra and an activist in Chicano politics, died Thursday morning at age 69, according to his family. Salas had been battling myeloma for two years ...

Rudy Salas and his band Tierra perform at the first annual Music 4 the Soul Benefit Concert at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on Oct. 25, 2013. (Maury Phillips/WireImage) Rudy Salas, founding guitarist of ...

The genre commonly referred to as "Chicano soul" has that "you know it if you hear it" kind of sound. It's a bicultural interpretation of late 1950s and early '60s African American R&B ballads by ...

Born out of a small café in Little Tokyo and driven by Chicano rock, rhythm and blues, Afro-Cuban rhythms, rancheras, salsa and soul, for the past three decades the Los Angeles-based ensemble Quetzal ...

Rudy Salas, who was a member of the Latin R&B band Tierra and soul group El Chicano, died on Tuesday, Tierra announced. He was 72. “It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of Rudy ...

Rudy Salas, founding guitarist of the Chicano R&B band Tierra and audacious pioneer of Los Angeles’ soulful Eastside sound, died in his sleep Tuesday morning at age 71. His stepdaughter, Cresi, says ...