Singer Raul Malo emerges from musical melting pot

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Raul Malo, a son of Cuban immigrants, grew up in the 1960s and 1970s in Miami, reveling in the pan-American sounds that washed over him from radio, television and out of the city’s many nightclubs, writes Randy Lewis.

It turned him into a living, breathing testament to the wonders of the musical melting pot, in the ‘90s fronting the eclectic country-rock band the Mavericks and for most of this decade as a solo act. He is now widely regarded as one of the most gifted singers to emerge in the last two decades.

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-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City