Ya se ha muerto mi abuelo

Ya se ha Muerto mi Abuelo by Juaneco y su Combo.Biography
Juaneco y Su Combo have a story ready-made for an episode of Behind the Music, full of hallucinogenic drugs, jungle adventure, hardscrabble barrio life, a fatal plane crash, and plenty of rock & roll. In their heyday in the early '70s, Juaneco y Su Combo were one of the most innovative chicha bands in Peru. And what is chicha, you may ask? Chicha was spontaneously created by the culture clash of the late '60s, when the Indian population of the Peruvian Amazon discovered the Colombian pop music known as cumbia and American rock & roll. When oil was discovered in the Amazon, oil companies invaded the region, bringing some modicum of civilization and spreading around jobs that gave indigenous people some measure of disposable income. As cheap electric instruments became available, Amazon Indians put together dance bands that used the syncopated beat of cumbia -- which sounds like a laid-back Latin cousin of ska -- as the foundation for melodies that sound like Andean folk tunes played on electric guitar with lots of effects and Tex-Mex-style Farfisa organ.On May 2, 1977, after playing a Labor Day party, most of the band was flying back to Pucallpa on a small private plane. The plane crashed, killing Noé Fachin, Walter Dominguez, Ediberto Vasquez, Jairo Aguilar, and Wilfredo Murrieta. Juan Wong Paredes, singer Wilindoro Cacique, timbalero Rosendo Hidalgo, and conguero Juvencio Pinchi finished production on the band's last album and carried on with five new members. They never regained the edge they had with Fachin, but remained popular in Peru. In 2004, Juaneco died and his son, Mao Wong Lopez, took over the band. There the story might have ended, but in 2007 Oliver Conan, owner of Brooklyn's Barbès nightclub and record label, discovered the music on a trip to Peru. He put out a compilation for the U.S. market called Roots of Chicha: Psychedelic Cumbias from Peru (2007, Barbès), and world music fans went nuts for this new beat -- which was really 40 years old. Juaneco y Su Combo were rescued from obscurity and started playing in the hip venues of Barranco with young rock bands who worshiped their retro sound. Several television documentaries have been made about the band, which has been profiled in Peru's trendiest magazines. In late 2008 the band was hoping to make its first tour of the U.S. J. Poet

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[losdread]

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[laloper567]

@losdread el dia que tu pais nos devuelva TTODO LO QUE ROBARON RECIEN hABLAREMOS DE AMISTAD SINO PREPARENSE PARA UNA INVASION POR QUE PERU Y ARgENTTINA LES TENEMOS BRONCA YA VERAN NUESTROS TANQUES INVADIR TU TIERRA PREPARENSE!!!!!!!!!!!

[losdread]

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[laloper567]

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[caapchan]

el sabor originial.. los de bareto fueron unos oportunistas

[PENUDO500]

buena musica saludos desde puebla mexico

[kelamg95]

jajaja ,la letra de la cancion es la cabose....

[losdread]

Saludos desde Chile .... que toda esa mierda que nos separá se valla al tacho de la basura !!!

[losdread]

Saudos desde Chile .... que toda esa mierda que nos separá se valla al tacho de la basura !!!

[vanessizle]

Este tema me recuerda mucho de Peru y los dias que estuve en Cusco. Muchos recuerdos bonitos de un pais extraordinario!