Steve Skaith ..."A pamphlet, no matter how good, is never read more than once, but a song is learned by heart and repeated over and over" (Phil Ochs)   Steve Skaith was the singer and writer with the UK band Latin Quarter‚ best known for its 1986 single 'Radio Africa'‚ from the hit album ‘Modern Times’. The band made several albums and continued touring throughout Europe until 1998. In 1999, Steve moved to Mexico where he continues to live. There he has teamed up with three Mexican musicians: Javier Gamiz: Spanish guitar, Jarana and Cuatro Venezolano, Beto Tenorio: Bass guitar and Ricardo Serrano: Drums. In 2003 they produced their first album ‘Mexile’‚ and on May 2nd 2005 they released the second, brand new CD entitled "Empires and Us". The music represents a meeting of British folk-rock with different world music feels and influences, as much African as Latin American. The lyrics - many written by Latin Quarter lyricist Mike Jones - are often political, as they were with Latin Quarter, covering such topics as American power in the modern world and Tony Blair’s collusion with that. There is also humour, love, love gone missing, and, finally, a song "Come Alive"‚ requested by South African fans, celebrating the struggle for democracy in South Africa and thus a slight counterweight to the lyric of "Radio Africa", which was ‘hearing only BAD news from Africa’. Steve Skaith website