Local Musician Influenced By Love Of The Classics

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Local Musician Influenced By Love Of The Classics

By Genoa Barrow | Senior Staff Writer Carlos McMillan Fuentes grew up listening to the classics-James Brown, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Donna Summer, and Stevie Wonder. “I was raised in a house with music from the ’70s,” he said. “Lots of soul. Disco, old school R&B, Motown for sure, lots and lots […]

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