Cantores de Bayamon

Puerto Rico’s Los Cantores de Bayamon certainly are a charting, award-winning large band of music artists and singers who pass on their nation’s music customs — sacred and secular — through the entire Caribbean, Southern European countries, THE UNITED STATES, and Hawaii. The group produced with an array of professional music artists in 1992 around a straightforward credo: to protect the sacred music from the Puerto Rican Xmas tradition during a time of secular and double-entendre seasonal music. They chose modern forms, but held the message immediate. Their debut one, “Te Llego la Parranda,” was a Xmas rap fused with aguinaldo, a folk genre of Latin Xmas music predicated on traditional Spanish Xmas carols. It had been popular. The record Pa’ Ver Si Me Prendo gained Puerto Rico’s Diplo Award for Greatest Xmas Record. They spent another period touring and marketing their music and message. Released in 1994, Que Rica la Parranda, Oe, Oe, gained another Diplo, that one for Xmas Group of the entire year. The following season they provided a nationally transmit Xmas plan on Puerto Rican tv. They produced their first worldwide trip in 1996, playing Orlando and Tampa, Florida. Information of the shows and annually recordings spread, plus they had been asked to Hawaii the next year with the Association of Puerto Ricans in Hawaii. The group’s annual albums had been found by radio across Latin America and america, and phrase spread of their festival-like concerts. In 1998, they performed in Anchorage, Alaska, implemented in 1999 by travels to Spain as well as the Canary Islands. Every year, Los Cantores de Bayamon albums, such as for example 2000’s Parranda con Tradicion, marketed better and had been distributed more broadly. A year later on, they performed in Chicago and NEW YORK. In the home, they performed not only Xmas occasions, but those celebrating nationwide heritage and additional sacred vacations. They continuing to issue approximately an recording a yr through 2011, highlighting numerous designs from bomba and plena to salsa as well as tango. In 2012 and 2013, Los Cantores de Bayamon started reissuing their catalog through their personal label, while carrying on their yearly moves and documenting of singles. In Oct 2016, they released Puerto Rico Sera una Fiesta, a fresh studio saving. It topped the tropical albums graph in January 2017.