Can Kings Of Flow Conquer The Latin Charts?

His casual attitude at that moment of pinnacle achievement was hard-earned.Born Carlos I Talavera Alvarez on July 22,1982 -when his mother was just 17-and raised without the benefit of a father,he grew up in a relatively bucolic suburban Nicaraguan setting,but that soured after his family relocated to Los Angeles,CA. Badly bullied and surrounded by gangs throughout his teenage years.The result was an accelerated,knuckle-splitting maturation that found an appropriately untamed outlet in rapping.The Flow was on his way.Despite the fact that his 1996 debut "Los Tiradores vol.1" went virtually unnoticed,within two years,he attained-via "Kings of Flow" the sensational international succes that made him a household name."Kings of Flow" You have to be a glass half-full kind of guy to write lyrics like "Seguire Esperando" and "Lo que seria and what of time" while collecting unemployment. It takes a different level of optimism to write those songs when your car has been repo'd and you're dodging eviction notices. But such is World/Reggea/Latin/Urban Songwriter/Kings of Flow lead singer Carlos (The Flow) Talavera's in the power of "Flow." Does it work? Consider this: "Libertad," which The Flow wrote amid personal crisis,is now the title track of his award-winning recording debut as part of "Kings of Flow" "The premise behind everything i do is NOT only to make people dance,but to empower and encourage,"says The Flow. "There's a lot of job loss and people losing their homes and hope,and dreams right now. It's important to have a message of empowerment out there . Specially within my LATIN community out there: the message that people must speak positively that they create their world by what they say" A MASTERLY LYRICIST BAND WITH AN ABILITY TO ZERO-IN ON TARGETS GUARANTEED TO ELICIT POWERFUL RESPONSES, KINGS OF FLOW ALSO WIELD A RARE GIFT FOR REVEALING PSYCHOLOGICALLY INTIMATE DETAILS OF THEIR OWN INNER SELF. By Donald S. Passman, author of All You Need To Know About The Music Business Click for the latest on Kings of Flow