Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Frank Colón’s music will move your body and soothe your soul. His sophisticated, hot and soulful music raises consciousness, brings people together, and promotes peace!
Frank is a specialist in Latin-Caribbean, Brazilian and Asian percussion instruments including congas, bongos, timbales, bata drums, shekere, cuica, berimbau, and tabla drums, among others.
On NYC's jazz scene, he quickly went on to perform and record with Julito Collazo (5 yrs.!), Chet Baker, Jaco Pastorious, Michel Camilo, African master-drummer, Babatunde Olatunji, Gato Barbieri, Harry Belafonte, Weather Report, Tania Maria, Flora Purim, and Airto Moreira.
In Brazil, Frank has also performed and/or recorded with Milton Nascimento, Gilberto Gil, Eddie, Motta, João Bosco, Chico Buarque, Wagner Tiso, Ney Matogrosso, Elba Ramalho, Marina Lima, RPM, João Donato, Toninho Horta, Roberto Menescal, and Marcos Valle.
As a sideman with the Manhattan Transfer for 12 years, he collaborated on two of their Grammy awards!
