Ideal and The Cultural Revolution

CD available from www.cdbaby.com/ideal and downloadable at your favorite digital download shop!Ideal is from La Buga, Livingston, Guatamala. With his grandfather, he learned the basic life of the original Garifuna planting food, fishing, cooking, and growing and preparing the medicinal plants of the tribe. Ideal grew up in Guatemala and across the bay in Belize with the Garifuna communities there. In Belize, Ideal met Rene Crisanto and Chukupen Paulino, and they formed the original Larunihati Band that had a cameo appearance in Mosquito Coast. Later, Ideal learned from Pen Cayetano and Mohobub Flores. Soon, he became the youngest member of the Turtle Shell Band. With the Turtle Shell Band, Ideal grew in his skills in Punta Rock, from its inventor Pen Cayetano. Ideal also expanded his ability with the turtle shells, learning from Mohobub Flores and Higgins Higginio. He even learned some advanced drumming skills and techniques from Isabel Flores, a legendary drummer and leader of the Garifunas. At 21, Ideal returned to Puerto Barrios, Guatemala with his friend and Larunihati Band member Lusby Baltazar. He and Lusby started a culture band called Suamen Boys and a dance group called Amistad Juvenil. It was during this time that Ideal had a major influence in the development of punta rock in the Guatamalan Garifuna community. When Ideal came to the United States, he introduced PuntaRock to the Garifuna people living in the Bronx. He formed the legendary punta rock band Isanigu Punta Rock Soul-Jas. Since then, he has performed and recorded with the Garifuna International Band, and now is working a group of his guys called "Ideal and the Cultural Revolution." Ideal just recorded his first full-length solo CD with TAB Studio's Dayaan Ellis (a.k.a. Nuru).I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4