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Making Movies And Rubén Blades Trace Stories Of Immigrant Injustice With 'Ameri'kana'

Latino star Rubén Blades teams up with Making Movies to addresses themes of injustices in the collaborative album Ameri'kana.
Making Movies (pictured) enlist Latin legend Ruben Blades for its upcoming album<em> Ameri'kana.</em>

You might say is a band of brothers. The Kansas City-based group is made up of two Panamanian-Americans — guitarist Enrique Chi and his brother, bassist Diego Chi — and two Mexican-Americans; drummer Andres Chaurand and his brother Juan-Carlos, who plays percussion and keyboards.

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