Enrique Javier Chi must inspire butterflies and perspiration in the kids he mentors at the Mattie Rhodes Center, 'cause the soft-spoken, dreadlocked, Panamanian-born musician sure sparkles with charm. It doesn't matter if his lush lips are issuing coffee-shop talk about social issues — in the faintest accent — or he's singing onstage in Spanish (or English). Sweet Chi fronts the band Making Movies, which blends rock and roll with Latin-music traditions. And when he starts tossing his dready head and unconsciously foot shuffling to his band's rock-embedded salsa rhythms, it's hard not to throw a bra and roses.
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