Los Kjarkas
Kupferberg Center for the Arts
153-49 Reeves Avenue
Queens Village, NY 11367
Nov 10, 2019
8:00 PM EST
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Los Kjarkas is a Bolivian band founded in 1965 from the Capinota province in the department of Cochabamba, and the most popular Andean folk music band in the country's history. Among the styles they play are Saya, Tuntuna, Huayno, and Carnavales. The instruments they use include charango, quena, zampona, ronroco, guitar, and bombo. Los Kjarkas 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." Let's welcome this legendary Andean music band this upcoming Sunday, November 10th at the Colden Auditorium in Queens, NY. Brought to you by Mautino Productions and OAOA Entertainment. For more information give us a call at (718) 285-0325 or visit www.LosKjarkasGiraUSA.com or kupferbergcenter.org
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Los Kjarkas Biography
Los Kjarkas is a Bolivian band, one of the most popular Andean folk bands in the region's history. They have played a pivotal part in the development of lambada and other styles of music, and have also founded two schools focusing on Andean folk music, the Musical School of Kjarkas (Lima, Peru) and La Fundacion Kjarkas (Ecuador). They have toured across Japan, Europe and Scandinavia, the United States and South America.
The band's leader has always been singer, guitarist and songwriter Gonzalo Hermosa Gonzalez, who formed the band with his brothers Elmer and Ulises, as well as Gaston Guardia Bilboa and Ramiro de la Zerda. De la Zerda left group and Ulises Hermosa died of cancer, replaced by Eduardo Yanez Loayza, Rolando Malpartida Porcel and Jose Luis Morales Rodriguez.
Read MoreThe band's leader has always been singer, guitarist and songwriter Gonzalo Hermosa Gonzalez, who formed the band with his brothers Elmer and Ulises, as well as Gaston Guardia Bilboa and Ramiro de la Zerda. De la Zerda left group and Ulises Hermosa died of cancer, replaced by Eduardo Yanez Loayza, Rolando Malpartida Porcel and Jose Luis Morales Rodriguez.
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