GTA: Vice City (Radio Espantoso)

Radio Espantoso is a radio station that appears in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, and plays Latin jazz, mambo, son, salsa and Latin funk among other genres. The dialogue in this station is in Spanish, apart from a few snippets in English. In 1986, the setting of GTA Vice City, Pepe is the DJ. In Vice City, Radio Espantoso is one of two radio stations to feature original material written and recorded especially for the game; the other is V-Rock. The word «espantoso» directly translates to as «horrible» or «awful» in Spanish. Its GTA Vice City DJ, Pepe, is either Cuban or of Cuban descent. He has a jolly and cheery attitude towards life, reflexing the style of music he plays and Latin's generally more laid back attitude. He frequently makes humorous remarks like shouting «¡chicharrones musicales!» (musical pork skins). However, at the start of the playlist he says that although he likes the songs, he is becoming tired of playing them over and over again, a reference to the looping audio file of this radio, like all other radios in GTA Vice City. Radio Espantoso is also the preferred radio stations of the Cubans/Los Cabrones.