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Vicky Tafoya & The Big Beat

Ladies and Gentlemen...Vicky Tafoya

About Me

Vicky Tafoya has been singing around California for years(since around 1989), almost exclusively at Doo Wop Society shows. The past few years she has put great backing musicians behind her and has been doing her thing here and there, all around So-cal and the world. Vickys talent has earned her invitations to play some of the biggest roots music Festivals in the world, including numerous performances at the Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly weekender, The Screamin' Weekender in Spain, The Rhythm Riot in England, The Hootenanny Festival in So-cal, as well as the great 1950' Rockin' Fest in Green Bay, From which she just recently preformed again in 2007. Vicky also sings in an Acapella Doo Wop group With Eddie Nichols(Royal Crown Revue) Matt Mazolla, and Jimmy Gimelli, and they call themselves the Redondos. They are pretty amazing, and if you get a chance to check em out, you should. So keep a look out for Vicky Tafoya and we will hopefully see you at the next show! ************************************************************ ************************************************************ ************************************************************ ************************************************************ ********
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/7/2004
Band Website: geocities.com/vickytafoya/
Band Members: The Players on Meet The Beat are: Vicky Yafoya Vocals~ Ramiro Lechuga Guitar ~ Mike Cassio Saxaphone ~ Robert Garcia Drums ~ Christian Kessler Upright Bass ~ Romana Piano~Vince Maldonado Guitar
Influences: Vicky is a HARDCORE DooWop fan. Old school, Like FRANKIE LYMON and THE TEENAGERS, The Moonglows, The Flamingos, The Harptones, The Swallows, The Students, The Marcels, The Skyliners, The Schoolboys, The Mellows, The Crickets( The black vocal group, AND Buddy Holly's) Little Butchie Sanders, The Capris, The Mello-Kings, LOS ZAFIROS, Dubs, The Beach boys early harmonies, Chuck Berry, and the Volumes, ALL that Kiddie DooWop, and of course the Girl Groups, The Shangra-Las, The Chantels, The Crystals, The Marvelettes, The Shirelles and the untouchable Ronettes. as far as newer stuff she likes Greenday, Hagfish, The Cramps, Chixdiggit, The Muffs, BLONDIE, Ramones, Rev. Horton Heat, Transvision Vamp, JOAN JETT, The Dragons, The Diabolics, Cheap Trick, The Huntingtons, The Paladins, Russell Scott, The Donnas, Big Band, Surf, Garage, Punk....all kinds of stuff. Vicky loves great vocalists also. A few of her all time favorites are Little Willie John, Karen Carpenter ( Yes.... Karen Carpenter) and Ella Fitzgerald(her EARLY work, not so much that scating business).
Sounds Like: NO ONE ELSE...
Record Label: El Toro Records (Spain)
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Heart Full of Soul- Rock and Roll Fundraiser for My Nephew

Hi Everyone, On April 20th, my 16 year old Nephew went to the Emergency Room for what we thought was a migraine. The doctors took him in to do a CT Scan on his head. When they came out, they told...
Posted by Vicky Tafoya & The Big Beat on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 05:33:00 PST

If you would like to help my Nephew... The Isaiah Reyes Fund

..> ..>   So many people have written and wished us thier best and are sending prayers to the man upstairs for Isaiah. People have also asked if there is somewhere they can send donations. Yes...
Posted by Vicky Tafoya & The Big Beat on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:11:00 PST

New Vicky Tafoya Yahoo group...

..>..>..>..> ..> Come and check out our new Yahoo group. We set up a new group because we are no longer in contact with the guy who set up the account, and there has been some offensive posts put...
Posted by Vicky Tafoya & The Big Beat on Tue, 01 May 2007 02:08:00 PST

Viva Las Vegas 10 Promo video clip W/ Redondos!

Heres a cool little Video clip with a bunch of pictures from past Viva's with The Redondos music playing behind it. Pretty cool. Just click the link. If that doesnt work, copy and paste this link into...
Posted by Vicky Tafoya & The Big Beat on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 11:18:00 PST

The New Redondos CD!!

For those of you who dig the DooWop, The new Self-titled Redondos CD is out now. If you're interested in getting your hands on one, just email [email protected] and we'll tell you how. 1...
Posted by Vicky Tafoya & The Big Beat on Fri, 21 Apr 2006 06:25:00 PST