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Alt.Latino: They opened for Miles Davis and Sly Stone, then disappeared

All Songs Considered by NPR

Jun 24, 202624:29Music

This week's episode is a musical time machine. In the late 1960s, the band Zapata sprang out of a street gang in northwest Washington, D.C., with a sound that combined a variety of contemporary styles: Afro-Caribbean rhy...

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Alt.Latino: They opened for Miles Davis and Sly Stone, then disappeared is an episode from All Songs Considered by NPR. This week's episode is a musical time machine. In the late 1960s, the band Zapata sprang out of a street gang in northwe...

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Published Jun 24, 2026, 24:29 long, audio available.