Teasing the Korean Posted August 8, 2019 Report Share Posted August 8, 2019 Leon "Chaino" Johnson (1927 – July 8, 1999, pronounced: "Cha-ee-no"), the self-styled "percussion genius of Africa,"[1] was an American bongo player. After touring for several years on the Chitlin' Circuit, he released several albums and became popular with listeners of exotica music in the late 1950s and early 1960s. In the promotion of his albums, a fictional biography was developed, depicting Chaino as an orphan from a lost tribe in central Africa who had been rescued by a missionary after his tribe had been massacred. Chaino was actually born inPhiladelphia and raised in Chicago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaino Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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