Marfil
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Marfil is a Costa Rican music group. Its members include Isidor Asash (director y guitarist), Roberto Moscoa (percusonist and trumpeter), Rogelio Royes (vocalist), Omar Gauna (vocalist), Orlando Quezada (bass), Ricardo Espinach (drums) y Armando Conejo (keyboard). The group has been together for many years and count the following three records as their main productions: "Celebrando", "Amuletos" and "Que no paren". These can be purchased online at [1]
Marfil was founded in the Atlantic port town of Puerto Limon in the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. Puerto Limon is known for its Jamaican ancestry and reggae rhythms which had a direct influence on the sound of the band. Their sound blends reggae, soca, soul, and jazz.
In the 1980s, Marfil's greatest hit was "Represento", [2] (I Represent), a salsa tune that was composed by the Puerto Rican songwriter Lou Briel, and that the group converted into cumbia. Although this is an established fact, since the late 1980s there has been a dispute about the author's rights of the song. Most of the people in Costa Rica still think that "Represento" was composed by one of the members of Marfil, even though the song is registered under Lou Briel's name since then, in the Library of Congress, and in the "Composer's and Editor's of Latin American Music Association", ACEMLA (Asociación de Compositores y Editores de Música Latinoamericana). It is still being disputed.
Note:- Marfil refers to 'Ivory', in Spanish.
History of the band can be found at the following links:
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