La Misma Gente is a Colombian salsa music band founded in 1978 in Palmira, 20 miles East of Cali, by Jorge Herrera, leader and timbalero, and keyboard player Jaime Henao.[1][2] It became one of the emblematic Cali salsa groups alongside Grupo Niche and Orquesta Guayacán, although unlike these groups the group was originally local to Cali and had grown out of a mainly white high school band.[3] The group's early records are modeled after the Puerto Rican sound of trumpet quartet led Sonora Poncena, which Henao had listened to as youth, although expanded with two saxophones and a trombone.[4] The band's first successful songs were "Juanita Ae" and "Titico". Later hits include "Hasta Que Llegaste," and "No Hay Carretera". The vocalists have changed over the band's 30 years but on the 30 Aniversario DVD the vocalists are Rey Calderon and Nelson Morales.
Discography
edit- En su Salsa (Sonolux, 1986)
- La Misma Gente Orquesta (Sonolux, 1987)
- Suena (Sonolux, 1988)
- En la Jugada (Sonolux, 1989)
- Perfume De París (Combo Records, 1990)
- El Loco, Ah tu sabes! (Combo Records, 1991)
- Cambios (Combo Records, 1992)
- Caliche (Codiscos, 1993)
- Siempre (Codiscos, 1994)
- Nos Quedamos Con La Salsa (Codiscos, 1995)
- Caminantes (Fonocaribe, 1998)
- Con Sabor Internacional (Latino's & Co, 2001)
- 25 Aniversario (Latino's & Co, 2004)
- 30 Aniversario, Pasado y Presente (Discos Fuentes, 2012)
- Mi promesa Single (Discos Fuentes, 2013)
- Llevao Single (Discos Fuentes, 2014)
References
edit- ^ Rosa, José. World Music Survey: The History of Music from Cuba, the Caribbean, South America & the United States. United States: José Rosa Enterprises, 2009. P. 58. "Other influential Colombian salsa musicians include Cristian Del Real "Timbal Genius", Grupo Niche, Alquimia, La Misma Gente, Los Titanes, Los Nemus del Pacífico, Orquesta Guayacán and Grupo Galé."
- ^ Broughton, Simon and Ellingham, Mark. World Music. Volume 2: Latin & North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific. London: Penguin Books, 2000.
- ^ Torres, George. Encyclopedia of Latin American Popular Music. Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood, 2013. P. 104. "Salsa became an important symbol of local identity in Cali beginning in the 1970s, ... the 1980s and 1990s with groups such as Grupo Niche, Orquesta Guayacán, and La Misma Gente, all based in the city."
- ^ Waxer, Lise A. The City of Musical Memory: Salsa, Record Grooves and Popular Culture in Cali Colombia. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2002. P. 184
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