After their successful appearance at this year’s SXSW festival a week ago, Kumbia Queers hit the southland and have been getting L.A. audiences dancing with their energetic performances like they did at the Echoplex and the M-Bar last weekend and this Saturday, March 29th, they are back to L.A. at Los Globos Night Club in Silver Lake for their last performance before returning home.
Kumbia Queers is a band of Argentine and one Mexican girl who met each in Buenos Aires’ punk scene around 2007. Since there was good chemistry amongst the girls, they decided they would put together a band of their own, but since they were all tired of running around in rock and punk bands, they decided they would do something different. They were all fans of cumbia music, so they figured they would take their favorite rock and punk songs and do them in cumbia style and the new band began to take shape.
When they were looking for a name, they though about doing a female take on Miami’s Kumbia Kings, but Kumbia Queens just didn’t feel right, but when they changed it to Kumbia Queers, their ascending career began.
Kumbia Queers began playing in bars, discotheques, schools, weddings and even jails and from there they went on to play on some of the most important festival around the world like Vive Latino in Mexico City, Fem Fest in Chile, Rec Beat in Brazil, Fusion in Germany, Queertopia in Sweeden and other important countries like Holland, Spain, France, Denmark, Austria, Colombia, Uruguay and of course, the U.S.
Kumbia Queers have 3 EP’s and a full album available in the U.S. Their first effort came out in 2007 and it was titled, Kumbia Nena!; followed by God Save The Queers in 2010; La Gran Estafa del Tropipunk in 2011 and for this one they included collaborations with artists like Quique Rangel from Café Tacvba and Sr. Flavio from Los Fabulosos Cadillacs and others. In 2013, their first full length album, Pecados Tropicales, was released and their songs have also appeared in different movie and TV soundtracks.
Although Kumbia Queers do in fact play cumbias, it is not your typical cumbia sound, as they also incorporate elements of rock and punk and other Latin American sounds and even the Amazon cumbia style of chicha.
Kumbia Queers is definitely one of the most exciting live bands I have seen in a long time and your last chance to catch this great band on stage is this Saturday at Los Globos Night Club where they will be sharing the stage with Colombia’s Esteman and 3BallDF.
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