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 ...