Alerta Kamarada

Alerta Kamarada
Alerta Kamarada

Videos

Teaser - Live show - Canal Tr3ce - Colombia
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  • country:Colombia
  • region:Bogota
  • style(s):Cumbia, Reggae
  • label:Discos Fiera
  • type:Band, Big Band
  • instrumentation:brass, rock band, salsa and latin band
  • artist posted by:Discos Fiera

Line up

  • Esteban Salazar (Trumpet )
  • Gerardo Vargas (Keyboards)
  • Hernando Becerra (Lead guitar)
  • Javier Foncesa (Lead vocals, guitar)
  • Jessie Hernández (Latin Percussion)
  • Juan José Díaz (Trombone)
  • Pablo Araoz-Fraser (Bass, backing vocals, conductor)
  • Rafael Vélez (Drums)

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Founded in 1996, Alerta Kamarada is the pioneer band of Colombian Reggae. Born in Bogotá, led by Pablo ̈one2 ̈ Araoz (bassist and musical director) and Javier ̈jr punk ̈ Fonseca (lead vocalist), two young rockers and rebels, growed with a soundtrack of tropical music. In 2002 they released their first LP titled Alerta, which contains the song “Legal”, their first underground hit.
On their first international tour in Europe around 2004, the band was invited to participate in the main stage of the Rototom Reggae Sunsplash Festival in Italy.

Continuing its career, they travel to Jamaica where they produce their second LP titled Somos Uno, interacting with artists and producers such as Big Youth, Sugar Minnot, Jr. Reid, Christopher Meredith, Sly Dunbar and others. The song Princesa (with almost three million organic reproductions on YouTube) included in this album, becomes N.1 of comercial broadcasters in colombia. Thanks to this album, the band was invited to participate in the Historic Reggae Sunsplash Festival in Jamaica, where they were related to the top reggae artists, and begin to work as a support band for artists such as Lee Perry, Sister Nancy, Marla Brown, AnthonyB, Kymani Marley and Tanya Stephens.

They were invited to festivals such as Vive Latino (DF), EastMusicDays (Berlin), Paris HipHop Festival (Paris), Rototom Sunsplash (Benicasim), Reggae on the River (humbouldt County, California), Rock Park and Stereo Picnic (Colombia) among others.

Since its inception, the band promotes peace and reconciliation initiatives inside neighborhoods and cities of Colombia and some places of the world, that is why that from 2016 they were invited to participate in various concerts and pedagogical activities within the framework of the Peace process In Colombia.

In 2018 they release their 7th full-length album entitled "Love is in da House", an analogous album recorded on tape and in block, as it used to be done in the 70s. They also make their long documentary Movie in which they talk about the spirit and history of the band since 1996.