Estalla was released the following year in the US under the new title Blow Up, with the single "Fuego" helping to attract new fans outside Colombia and resulting in the group being voted "Best New Band in the World" for 2010 by viewers of MTV Iggy, the television channel's outlet for alternative world music artists. Impressed with Saumet's contribution, Mejía began to collaborate with her and Cadavid on songs for the next Bomba Estéreo album.īy the time the second album Estalla was released in 2008, Bomba Estéreo had developed into a full band, with Saumet on vocals, Cadavid on percussion, Julián Salazar on guitar, and former Sidestepper collaborator Enrique "Kike" Egurrola on drums, alongside Mejía on bass and keyboard programming. Saumet had briefly been the singer for the dub reggae band Mister Gomes en Bombay before meeting Mejía at a concert. 1 was Santa Marta-born singer and rapper Liliana "Li" Saumet, on the track "Huepaje". One of the vocalists Mejía had used on Vol. 1, Mejía attended the Latin Alternative Music Conference in New York City and was able to secure an international distribution deal with California-based Nacional Records for future releases, with Colombian releases on the Bogotá independent label Polen Records. 1 (2006), essentially a solo album but featuring contributions from other artists such as fellow A.M. The first results of his new project was the seven-track mini-album Vol. 770 had effectively become Mejía's solo project and he began to focus more on the musical side of his work, changing the name of the group to Bomba Estéreo. 770's first musical production was the track "Ritmika" (based on a sample of a song by Venezuelan salsa band Los Blanco) on the album Colombeat, a 2002 compilation showcasing this new musical style which was put together by Colombia's foremost alternative rock band Aterciopelados for their new label Entrecasa.īy 2005, A.M. Their music was influenced by Colombian groups such as Sidestepper and Bloque de Busqueda who in the late 1990s had started combining traditional Colombian musical rhythms such as salsa and cumbia with modern electronic beats and dance music. The origins of the group go back to 2001 when Bogotá native Simón Mejía (previously a member of 1990s Colombian alternative rock band Charconautas) was part of a loose collective of musicians and visual artists under the name A.M. History 2005–2008: Career beginning and Vol. Their music has been described as "electro tropical" or "psychedelic cumbia". Nacional Records, Polen Records, FM Discos Y Cintas, Soundway, Sony Musicīomba Estéreo is a Colombian band founded in Bogotá in 2005 by Simón Mejía. ∙ Bomba Estéreo has been nominated for two Grammy Awards and seven Latin Grammy Awards.Electro, Cumbia, Alternative dance, psychedelic pop ∙ Mejía collaborated with the environmental group Stand for Trees on a 2020 documentary about local communities working to preserve the Colombian rainforest. ∙ After hearing the song “Fiesta,” originally released on Bomba Estéreo’s 2015 LP, Amanecer, Will Smith came out of semiretirement from rapping and asked to guest on a remix. ∙ In 2010, Bomba Estéreo covered Technotronic’s 1989 Eurodance classic “Pump Up the Jam,” which they rereleased the following year with a new title, “Ponte Bomb.” ∙ “Fuego” was featured in an episode of the TV series Dexter and also appeared on the soundtrack for the game FIFA 10. ∙ Estalla, Bomba Estéreo’s second full-length (and first collaborative album), was released in 2008 and spawned the international hit single “Fuego.” 1 song “Huepaje,” Li Saumet was invited to become the frontwoman of Bomba Estéreo. 1, was essentially a solo record by group founder Simón Mejía that featured collaborations with a variety of Colombian artists. The debut album by Latin alt pop band Bomba Estéreo, 2006’s Vol.
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