A blend of reggae, rock, jazz and world rhythms. Jimmy Buffet and Bob Marley meets Eric Clapton, The Eagles, Chicago and Billy Joel.

12 MP3 Songs
ROCK: Trop Rock, REGGAE: Pop-Reggae

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Young Rebel Goombas are Richie Saccente, Cosmo Mallardi, Brian "Uncle Bee" Johnson, Randy Knudsen and Kevin McCann. Legendary saxophonist Richie Cannata guests on several tracks.

S. Cosmo Mallardi is a Graduate of Mannes College of Music, Juilliard pre-college and holds a Master of Music degree from the Yale School of Music. He has conducted on Broadway and music-directed the National Tours of Les Miserables, Jekyll and Hyde and Elton John and Tim Rice's AIDA. He also supervised the Japanese and Korean productions of AIDA as well as conducted and produced the Japanese cast album of AIDA. He plays both acoustic and electric bass, keyboards and sings.

Richie Saccente is a veteran song writer and guitar player. His pursuit of music over his career led him to perform with such groups as Night Train, Delusions of Grandeur, Troll, Sweeney and The Mangos. He studied music at Queensboro College. "Duane Allman and Dicky Betts would be my biggest musical influences - along with a lot of the great guitarists from that era," says Saccente.

Both received an Emmy® award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in 2007 for composing the soundtrack for the PBS documentary "Farmboy".