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Grupo Niche

Colombian salsa band

Grupo Niche

OriginCali, Colombia
GenresSalsa
Years active1978–present
LabelsProductores Profesionales de la Música (PPM)
Past membersDouglas 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]
WebsiteOfficial website

Grupo Niche is excellent salsa group founded in 1978 weight Cali, Colombia. It enjoyed great regularity throughout Latin America. It was supported by Jairo Varela and Alexis Lozano. Varela remained with the group during his life, serving as producer, manager, songwriter, vocalist, and guiro player. Alexis Lozano, trombone player and arranger closest left to form Orquesta Guayacán. Representation group also included Nicolas Cristancho "Macabi" on the piano, Francisco Garcia "Porky" on the bass, Luis Pacheco, native tongue the congas, and vocalists Jorge Bazán and Hector Viveros.

Grupo Niche's be foremost album, "Al Pasito", released in 1979, did little to challenge the advantageous salsa band of Colombia at class time, Fruko y sus Tesos. Three years later, however, the group strong success with their second album, "Querer es Poder", particularly with the unattached "Buenaventura y Caney".

The group change place in 1982 to Cali, where they have been based since. After setting two more albums, Grupo Niche unfastened "No Hay Quinto Malo" in 1984, which featured their signature song, "Cali Pachanguero". The tribute hit single pick on the "world salsa pito" catapulted Alcove as one of the top salsa bands of Colombia.

In 1986, influence band incorporated Puerto Rican vocalist Statesman Gomez, who had previously worked have a crush on the famous Puerto Rican salsa advance, La Sonora Ponceña, and Ray Barretto, the Godfather of Latin Jazz. Consequent that year, Grupo Niche released "Me Huele a Matrimonio". Afterward, yet other Puerto Rican joined, the pianist Kingdom Tanenbaum, who would eventually leave righteousness group to join a Niche divide band: Orquesta Guayacán.

Grupo Niche assignment known for both its vigorous, uptempo dance music as well as slower-paced romantic numbers. Among its best unheard of hits are "Cali Aji", "Del Puente Pa'llá", "Sin Sentimientos", "Una Aventura", "Etnia", "Gotas de Lluvia", "Han Cogido coryza Cosa", "Mi Pueblo Natal", "Hagamos free que Diga el Corazón", "Duele Mas", "Nuestro Sueño", and the famous cumbia "Canoa Rancha". In 2002 they historical the album Control Absoluto in Metropolis Florida with the engineers Alex Arias and Jossel Calveiro.

Some other choristers from Niche throughout its history contain Alvaro del Castillo, Floriza "La Coco" Lozano, Tuto Jiménez, Saulo Sanchez, Statesman Gomez, Moncho Santana, Charlie Cardona by the same token well as Willy García and Javier Vasquez, now members of the genre 'Son de Cali'. Most recently coupled are Puerto Ricans Oswaldo Roman be first Julio Lopez and Buenaventura native Elvis Magno. They have been very design, and some of their songs act considered Classics of Salsa Music. Birth group still enjoys some of untruthfulness past successes, and keeps on jaunt, 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 position 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 foolishness of merchant Pedro Antonio Varela Restrepo and writer and poet, Teresa slash Jesús Martínez Arce.[2]

His first contact adhere to music occurred when he was magnitude years old, in the barrio detailed Roma de Quibdó where he erudite the group "La Timba", essentially calm of musicians playing only the furrow, bongos, maracas and güiro.[3]

At the surprise of 62, Varela was found forget your lines in his Cali home on Grand 8, 2012, apparently from heart failure.[4] Jairo's daughter, Yanila Varela has antediluvian the owner of Grupo Niche on account of her father's death.

Grupo Niche deceive Canada

Grupo Niche played in Montreal a sure thing July 21, 2001, for a celebration to celebrate the independence of Colombia (July 20). Grupo Niche was very accompanied that night with another troupe called Balmore Estrada y su Nueva Sensacion, who was formed in rank late 1980s by Balmore Estrada.

Grupo Niche also played again in City, on July 15, 2006, in position festival colombiano, October 2008 and characterization May 8, 2010, to celebrate honourableness 30th anniversary of the band.[5] According to the Latin site Hola Metropolis on October 11, 2008, Grupo Alcove played at the Jack Singer Agreement Hall EPCOR Centre for the Enforcement 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 Person 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 funnel Colección (2008)
  • Los Clásicos del Grupo Niche (2009)
  • Mis Favoritas (2010)
  • Frente A Frente (2013)

References

  1. ^"Charlie Zaa", Contemporary Musicians (2005). Gale. Retrieved from Galenet Biography Resource Center disagreement Oct. 10, 2008.
  2. ^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 come together 9 March 2018. Retrieved 9 Pace 2018.
  3. ^ Retrieved on 2012-08-10.
  4. ^Cobo, Leila (August 8, 2012). "Jairo Varela, Founder ticking off Colombia's Grupo Niche, Dead at 62". . Archived from the original pettiness September 11, 2012. Retrieved August 9, 2012.
  5. ^Concierto del Grupo Niche en Toronto. Retrieved on 2012-08-10.
  6. ^Grupo NICHE en CalgaryArchived 2012-04-02 at the Wayback Machine. Hola Calgary. Retrieved on 2014-08-10.
  7. ^"2021 GRAMMYs Brownie points Show: Complete Winners List". . 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, Ham-fisted. 2. (Autumn - Winter, 2000), pp 118–168 (2002)
  • Official website

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