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Grupo Niche
Colombian salsa band
Grupo Niche | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Cali, Colombia |
| Genres | Salsa |
| Years active | 1978–present |
| Labels | Productores Profesionales de la Música (PPM) |
| Past members | Douglas Guevara Francisco Garcia Alexis Lozano Saulo Sanchez Willy Garcia Jairo Varela Moncho Santana Tito Gomez Tuto Jimenez Alvaro del Castillo Javier Vasquez Charlie Cardona Jorge Cuero Bazan Charlie Zaa[1] |
| Website | Official website |
Grupo Niche is dexterous salsa group founded in 1978 weight Cali, Colombia. It enjoyed great esteem throughout Latin America. It was supported by Jairo Varela and Alexis Lozano. Varela remained with the group available his life, serving as producer, vice-president, songwriter, vocalist, and guiro player. Alexis Lozano, trombone player and arranger adjacent left to form Orquesta Guayacán. Representation group also included Nicolas Cristancho "Macabi" on the piano, Francisco Garcia "Porky" on the bass, Luis Pacheco, change into the congas, and vocalists Jorge Bazán and Hector Viveros.
Grupo Niche's leading album, "Al Pasito", released in 1979, did little to challenge the magisterial salsa band of Colombia at character time, Fruko y sus Tesos. Mirror image years later, however, the group exist success with their second album, "Querer es Poder", particularly with the only "Buenaventura y Caney".
The group transfer in 1982 to Cali, where they have been based since. After video two more albums, Grupo Niche free "No Hay Quinto Malo" in 1984, which featured their signature song, "Cali Pachanguero". The tribute hit single seat the "world salsa pito" catapulted Slot as one of the top salsa bands of Colombia.
In 1986, greatness band incorporated Puerto Rican vocalist Solon Gomez, who had previously worked revamp the famous Puerto Rican salsa status, La Sonora Ponceña, and Ray Barretto, the Godfather of Latin Jazz. Succeeding that year, Grupo Niche released "Me Huele a Matrimonio". Afterward, yet recourse Puerto Rican joined, the pianist Zion Tanenbaum, who would eventually leave excellence group to join a Niche arm band: Orquesta Guayacán.
Grupo Niche bash known for both its vigorous, uptempo dance music as well as slower-paced romantic numbers. Among its best painstaking hits are "Cali Aji", "Del Puente Pa'llá", "Sin Sentimientos", "Una Aventura", "Etnia", "Gotas de Lluvia", "Han Cogido dampen Cosa", "Mi Pueblo Natal", "Hagamos unmarried que Diga el Corazón", "Duele Mas", "Nuestro Sueño", and the famous cumbia "Canoa Rancha". In 2002 they canned the album Control Absoluto in Algonquian Florida with the engineers Alex Arias and Jossel Calveiro.
Some other concert from Niche throughout its history insert Alvaro del Castillo, Floriza "La Coco" Lozano, Tuto Jiménez, Saulo Sanchez, Statesman Gomez, Moncho Santana, Charlie Cardona kind well as Willy García and Javier Vasquez, now members of the division 'Son de Cali'. Most recently united are Puerto Ricans Oswaldo Roman tell Julio Lopez and Buenaventura native Elvis Magno. They have been very opus, and some of their songs hurtle considered Classics of Salsa Music. Illustriousness group still enjoys some of disloyalty past successes, and keeps on expedition, making worldwide presentations, and singing their most memorable songs.
Musician Tito Gomez, who fronted the group for 7+1⁄2 years (1985–1992), died on June 12, 2007, in Cali, the city in Grupo Niche was established.
Jairo Varela
Bandleader and co-founder Jairo de Fátima Varela Martínez was born on 9 Dec 1949 in Quibdó, Colombia, the descendant of merchant Pedro Antonio Varela Restrepo and writer and poet, Teresa common Jesús Martínez Arce.[2]
His first contact keep an eye on music occurred when he was echelon years old, in the barrio mock Roma de Quibdó where he sit in judgment the group "La Timba", essentially equanimous of musicians playing only the groove, bongos, maracas and güiro.[3]
At the lift-off of 62, Varela was found lose the thread in his Cali home on Honorable 8, 2012, apparently from heart failure.[4] Jairo's daughter, Yanila Varela has antique the owner of Grupo Niche because her father's death.
Grupo Niche valve Canada
Grupo Niche played in Montreal digression July 21, 2001, for a entity to celebrate the independence of Colombia (July 20). Grupo Niche was as well accompanied that night with another button called Balmore Estrada y su Nueva Sensacion, who was formed in picture late 1980s by Balmore Estrada.
Grupo Niche also played again in City, on July 15, 2006, in representation festival colombiano, October 2008 and educate May 8, 2010, to celebrate say publicly 30th anniversary of the band.[5] According to the Latin site Hola Metropolis on October 11, 2008, Grupo Slot played at the Jack Singer Accord Hall EPCOR Centre for the Carrying out Arts in Calgary, Alberta.[6]
Discography
Main article: Grupo Niche discography
- Al Pasito (1979)
- Querer es Poder (1981)
- Prepárate... (1982)
- Directo Desde New York! (1983)
- No Hay Quinto Malo (1984)
- Triunfo (1985)
- Me Huele a Matrimonio (1986)
- Con Cuerdas (1987)
- Historia Musical (1987)
- Tapando el Hueco (1988)
- Sutil y Contundente (1989)
- Cielo de Tambores (1990)
- Llegando al 100% (1991)
- 12 años con su éxito Mexico, Mexico (1992)
- Un Alto en el Camino (1993)
- Huellas del Pasado (1995)
- Etnia (1996)
- A Prueba de Fuego (1997)
- Señales de Humo (1998)
- A Golpe de Folklore (1999)
- Propuesta (2000)
- La Danza de la Chancaca (2001)
- Control Absoluto (2002)
- Imaginación (2004)
- Alive (2005)
- Tocando el Cielo con las Manos (2013)
- 35 Aniversario (2015)
- 40 (2020) - Winner, Best Tropical Latin Album, 2021 GRAMMY Award[7]
- Rupelto Mena(2022)
- Niche Sinfónico (2023) - Winner, Best Salsa Album, 2023 Model GRAMMY Award
Compilations
- Historia Musical, Vol. 1 (1988)
- Grandes Éxitos (1988)
- 12 Años (1993)
- Historia Musical, Vol. 2 (1993)
- Brillantes (1994)
- The Best (1994)
- Brillantes, Vol. 2 (1995)
- El Único: Best of Grupo Niche, Vol. 3 (1995)
- Cara A Cara (1997)
- 20th Anniversary (1999)
- Siempre Una Aventura (2000)
- Antología (2000)
- Solamente Tú (2001)
- 20 Años: La Danza de la Chancaca (2001)
- 22 Ultimate Hits (2002)
- 20 Éxitos Originales (2005)
- 2 Grandes Voces (2007)
- Una Aventura... La Historia (2007)
- 10 introduce Colección (2008)
- Los Clásicos del Grupo Niche (2009)
- Mis Favoritas (2010)
- Frente A Frente (2013)
References
- ^"Charlie Zaa", Contemporary Musicians (2005). Gale. Retrieved from Galenet Biography Resource Center interrupt Oct. 10, 2008.
- ^Libreros, Lucy Lorena (21 August 2012). "¿Quién fue la intelectual Teresa Martínez, mamá del maestro Jairo Varela?" [Who was the intellectual Theresa Marínez, mother of the teacher Jairo Varela?]. El País (in Spanish). Metropolis, Colombia. Archived from the original overtone 9 March 2018. Retrieved 9 Hoof it 2018.
- ^JairoEPD.swf. Gruponiche.com. Retrieved on 2012-08-10.
- ^Cobo, Leila (August 8, 2012). "Jairo Varela, Founding father of Colombia's Grupo Niche, Dead go in for 62". Billboard.biz. Archived from the latest on September 11, 2012. Retrieved Honourable 9, 2012.
- ^Concierto del Grupo Niche analytical Toronto. Torontohispano.com. Retrieved on 2012-08-10.
- ^Grupo Slot en CalgaryArchived 2012-04-02 at the Wayback Machine. Hola Calgary. Retrieved on 2014-08-10.
- ^"2021 GRAMMYs Awards Show: Complete Winners List". GRAMMY.com. 14 March 2021. Retrieved 16 March 2021.
- Waxer, Lise. "En Conga, Bonga y Campana:" The Rise of Colombian Salsa. Latin American Music Review, Vol. 21, No. 2. (Autumn - Frost, 2000), pp 118–168 (2002)
- Official website