Chaino

Chaino was a personality of easy listening's exotica era from the late 1950s to the mid-'60s. The bongo player and recording artist, self-referenced as a "percussion genius of Africa," had an unusual marketing strategy devised by himself and producer/impresario Kirby Allan -- Chaino was born and raised in the U.S. An itinerant sideman playing the chitlin' circuit from the '40s through the mid-'50s, his fame was established with half-a-dozen exotica albums and a panoply of jukebox singles. 1957's Unbridled Passions of Love's Eerie Spectre marked his debut (reissued in 2009 as E...