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OZOMATLI SGS ABOUT ‘GAY VATOS LOVE’
Salt and PepperIs Freddy Fenr gay or straight? But the chos of this track on the new Ozomatli album is sure to surprise any sual listener: ‘Gay vatos love, ’ the song go. ‘Gay vatos love.
The track that celebrat same-sex relatnships -- and also als wh gay vlence and nial -- is clud the group’s fifth stud rerd, ‘Fire Away, ’ which was released April 20.
) Wh s classic sound but sharply gay-iendly msage, ‘Gay Vatos Love’ breaks to uncharted terrory that borrs on the mic dtry, polics, sexualy and Lato pop culture.
WAS FREDDY FENR GAY OR BI? LOOK AT HIS SEXUALY
The band began puttg together ‘Gay Vatos Love’ durg the height of the Prop. 8 bate California and while one of the band’s members, Asd, was workg on wrg mic for a pennt film project about a Mexin Amerin gay gangster. Although the band didn’t play ‘Gay Vatos Love’ durg this particular show -- ‘Here we need rock, heavy songs, bee that’s what the kids want’ -- Pache said the track had been receivg lots of buzz the media.
They’d played ‘Gay Vatos Love’ live on several recent tour stops, and the reactn was sometim mixed, Pache said.
Some people ask, pecially the Spanish prs, ‘Who’s gay the band? ‘We felt that [gay rights] is jt another a long le of unrdogs, so I thk we nnected to on that level.