Banda Blanca
| Banda Blanca | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | San Pedro Sula (Honduras) |
| Genre (s) | Punta Rock |
| founding | 1971 |
| Current occupation | |
singing |
Julio Ardon |
Guitar, vocals |
Héctor Altamirano |
bass |
Oscar Gerardo Galindo |
Keyboard, vocals |
Juan Pompilio Tejeda Duarte |
Keyboard, vocals |
Adán Rodriguez |
| José Luis Rodríguez | |
| Jorge Morales | |
| Jeronimo Midence | |
Banda Blanca is a Punta rock music and dance group from Honduras , which celebrated a great musical success with their hit "Sopa de Caracol".
Career
Banda Blanca is a musical group from San Pedro Sula founded in 1971 , which landed a big hit in the 1991 TV program Garzas Blancas with the song "Sopa de Caracol" written by Hernán Chico Ramos and Juan Pilo Tejeda and produced by EMI Latin. Tejeda and Ramos were inspired by a stay in the coastal town of Tela , when the two were eating snail soup and watching the dances of the Garífunas. The song peaked at number one on the Latin Billboard charts. At the end of 1991 Sopa de Caracol was the fifth best Latin Single of the Year in 1991 and received the Seagull Prize at the Viña del Mar Festival and the Lo Nuestro Prize. This made Punta Rock, the music of the Garifuna on the Central American Caribbean coast, known worldwide. The group adapted this name and replaced Garza with Banda. The in-depth rhythm of the song with stylistic elements from salsa , soca , merengue , calypso and Afro-Antillian dance elements achieved great international popularity. Banda Blanca had various live performances at carnival events such as the Chilean Festival de la Canción de Viña del Mar, Carnaval de La Calle 8 in Miami , Carnaval de la Calle Broadway in Los Angeles , the Mexican Carnaval de Acapulco , Carnaval de Barranquilla , the Carnaval de Tenerife and the Festival de Jazz in Aruba . Other well-known hits of the band were Fiesta , Sigan bailando and Oye este canto . In 1994 the band lived in Mexico for a while. Banda Blanca is still one of the most famous bands from Honduras today.
Discography
- 1990: Sopa de Caracol (Promotion of the World)
- 1991: Fiesta Tropical (Sonotone)
- 1991: Sopa de Caracol ( EMI )
- 1994: Swing Latino (Musivisa)
- 2000: Hot Hot Hot (Legend Recordings)
- 2013: Saben Quien Llego (M-Gen Stream)
Web links
- Banda Blanca at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Garzas Blancas was a night club run by TV entertainer Antonio Longas, known as Tony Low, and made famous by the group's performance
- ↑ Spanish snail soup, a typical dish in the coastal region of Honduras
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.billboard.com/#/artist/banda-blanca/chart-history/24732
- ↑ Spanish heron
- ↑ AldosdelRecuerdo.com Banda Blanca ( Memento of October 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
