Geraldo Pino

Gerald Emeka Pine, better known as Geraldo Pino (1 February 1934 - 9 November 2008), was a Sierra Leonean musician. He was one of the early pioneers of modern African pop music.

Born in 1934 in Freetown, Sierra Leone to a Sierra Leone Creole family, Pino was the son of a Sierra Leonean lawyer, and a mother who died when he was young. He co-founded the Heartbeats in the 1960s and was Chairman of th… More