The hybrid music of the group "Kid Creole and the Coconuts" shows traces of every popular music style that has aroused New York City during the past 40 years--big band swing, Latin dance music, calypso, reggae, disco, funk, soul, rock, and movie pop. The fictitious characters the members of the band assume on stage, together with their outlandish costumes (the "Kid" affects the clothes and style of a Latin lounge lizard, while the other band members dress in various nightclub styles), and their heavily choreographed antics, turn their shows into a mixture of rock concert, musical revue, or as one critic has said soundtracks in search of cinema." However, although "Kid Creole and the Coconuts" are cult favorites in their home base of New York City, they fit no current radio formats and receive little airplay on mainstream American radio. In Europe they are recognized for the American caricatures they are, and in Mexico and Latin America they have had more than one hit single. Their albums are sophisticated and witty, sometimes mixing songs in English and in Spanish, but such a visually oriented band may discover that the theater is their real home. (NKA)