Los Kjarkas
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Los Kjarkas | |
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Background information | |
Origin | Bolivia |
Genres | Andean folk |
Years active | 1965–present |
Labels | Lauro, Discolandia, ANS Records, Heriba, Tumi Music |
Members | Gonzalo Hermosa González Elmer Hermosa González Gastón Guardia Bilboa Makoto Shishido Lin Angulo Gonzalo Hermosa Camacho |
Past members | Ramiro de la Zerda Ulises Hermosa González Eduardo Yáñez Loayza Rolando Malpartida Porcel José Luis Morales Rodríguez Fernando Torrico Edwin Castellanos Julio Lavayen Alcides Mejia Miguel Mengoa Edgar Villaroel Eddy Carpio Toño Canelas |
Website | Official Site |
Los Kjarkas is a
.The band's leader has always been singer, guitarist, and songwriter Gonzalo Hermosa González, who formed the band with his brothers Élmer Hermosa González and Ulises Hermosa González, as well as Gastón Guardia Bilboa and Ramiro de la Zerda. De la Zerda left group to form Grupo Fortaleza and Ulises Hermosa died of cancer in 1992, being replaced by Eduardo Yáñez Loayza, Rolando Malpartida Porcel and José Luis Morales Rodríguez. By 2002, Lin Angulo, Gonzalo Hermosa Camacho, and Japanese-born Makoto Shishido had replaced Yáñez, Porcel, and Rodríguez. Makoto joined the band after seeing them play in Japan. In the later 2000s, Élmer Hermosa was diagnosed with diabetes. [1] In 2010, Edwin Castellanos, who was in the band from 1983 to 1995, became mayor of the city of Cochabamba. [2]
Kjarkas have founded two schools teaching Andean folk music: the Musical School of Kjarkas (Lima, Peru) and La Fundación Kjarkas (Ecuador). They have toured across Japan, Europe, Scandinavia, the United States, South America, and Australia, and have composed over 350 songs. Among their most popular are "Imillitay", "Al Final", "Canto a la mujer de mi pueblo", and "Pequeño Amor".
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The group's music was also used for the Argentine-Dutch film Bolivia (2001). The group's cultural heritage is passed down in the next generation of Hermosa blood with the popular youth group band Chila Jatun, made up by the sons of this influential Bolivian group.
Discography
- Studio albums
- Bolivia (1976)
- Fortaleza Vol. 1 (1977)
- Fortaleza Vol. 2 (1978)
- Kutimuy (1979)
- Condor Mallku (1980)
- Desde el alma de mi pueblo (1981)
- Canto a la mujer de mi pueblo (1981)
- Sol de los andes (1983)
- Pueblos perdidos (1984)
- Desde el japón (1985)
- El amor y la libertad (1987)
- Chuquiago Marka (1988)
- Génesis Aymara (1989)
- Sin palabras (1989)
- Los andes... descubrió su rostro milenario (1990)
- Techno Kjarkas (1991)
- El arbol de mi destino (1992)
- Hermanos (1993)
- A los 500 años (1994)
- Quiquin... Pacha (Por un mundo nuevo) (1995)
- Por siempre (1997)
- El lider de los humildes (1998)
- Lección de vida (2001)
- 35 años (2006)
- 40 años despues (2012)
- Contributing artist