I liked them best with their "Chicago Sound" work with Carl Davis, as Chubby and The Turnpikes on Capitol in the late '60s. But, uncharacteristic of my taste, usually disliking almost all post 1960s music, I do like Tavares' '70s music. I love "Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel".
As to their family name and origin, I suspect that it is a Portuguese name, rather than Spanish, as The Portuguese conquered and colonised The Cape Verde Islands and started the West African slave trade, before The Spanish took them over.
"Tavares" means: "descendant of the hermit" in both Portuguese and Spanish, and was likely a surname in the Iberian peninsular original derivitive language version of Latin, before it split into Portuguese, Castillian[[Spanish), Galician, Catalan different dialects, and eventually, different languages. The name originally came from West Semitic Canaanite through Phonaecian, and then Punic [[Carthaginian) into the Iberian Latin dialect, probably as early as the 2nd Century B.C.
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