Performance · Production
Celso Piña
Mexican singer and accordionist
Monterrey, Mexico • 1953-04-06 – 2019-08-21
Celso Piña is credited on 34 releases across 15 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1985–2019 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
34
Pressings credited
15
Albums
4
Decades active
2
In collections
Biography
Celso Piña Arvizu (April 6, 1953 – August 21, 2019) was a Mexican singer, composer and accordionist, mainly in the genre of cumbia, being one of the most important musicians in the style of "cumbia rebajada". Piña was a pioneer in the mixture and fusion of tropical sounds, with many of his works having elements of cumbia, regional Mexicano, cumbia sonidera, ska, reggae, rap/hip-hop, R&B, etc. Piña is also known as El Rebelde del acordeón or the Cacique de la Campana.
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
34 releases · 15 albums · active 1985–2019
- Performance · 42
- Production · 6
Studios: Soundworks Recording Studio, New York · The Warehouse Studio · El Auditorio Nacional · AT Studio
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Lila Downs
- Gloria Trevi
- Various
- Los Angeles Azules
- Bacilos
- Doctor Krapula
- El Hijo De La Cumbia
- Benny
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