- country:Colombia
- region:Caribbean
- style(s):Champeta criolla, World
- label:Tambora Records
- type:Band
- artist posted by:Tribu Baharú
Line up
- Boricua (guitar, producer )
- Chindo (bass, backing vocals)
- Juan Sebastian Bastos (Sound Engineer)
- Makambille (vocals)
- Moniqui (percussions)
- Pocho (director, drums, backing vocals)
- Shaka (MC, backing vocals)
Links
It's been denigrated and damned, boycotted and banned, but it can never be stopped: champeta, the ever evolving, high-energy hybrid of Columbian, African and Afro-Caribbean styles just keeps on coming. And leading a new charge are Tribu Baharú, barrelling out of Bogotá, championing their version of champeta, inspired by the legendary, street-shaking Pico sound-systems of Columbia's Caribbean coast, but here played all-live-onstage with sparkling Congolese guitar driven by high-speed bass and drums and the all-animating upfront singers. Champeta was swept away by the ubiquitous Reggaeton in the '90s but Tribu Baharú are part of a wave of nuevas musicas Colombianas based in the capital city who are reestablishing it as a prime force and adding more ingredients to the recipe. Warning: may contain traces of soukous, zouk, calypso, mbaqanga, soca, compa Haitiano, rap and ragamuffin.
