Hamburg-based Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band

The World

Björn Wagner is the leader of Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band. He and his band love steel pan music from Trinidad, but they fuse it with funk, hip-hop and TV show themes like that 80s cop show “Miami Vice.” 

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