La Misma Gente is a Colombian
salsa music
Salsa music is a style of Latin American music. Because most of the basic musical components predate the labeling of salsa, there have been many controversies regarding its origin. Most songs considered as salsa are primarily based on son montun ...
band founded in 1978 in Palmira, 20 miles East of Cali, by Jorge Herrera, leader and timbalero, and keyboard player Jaime Henao. It became one of the emblematic Cali salsa groups alongside
Grupo Niche
Grupo Niche is a salsa (music), salsa group founded in 1978 in Bogotá, Colombia. In 1982, the group settled in the city of Santiago de Cali, Cali, Colombia, enjoying great popularity throughout Latin America. It was founded by :es:Jairo Varela, ...
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. 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.
[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] 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
*''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
Colombian salsa musical groups
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