Banda Blanca

Banda Blanca Punta is a Garifuna music and dance group from Honduras who celebrated a great musical success with their hit " Sopa de Caracol ".

Career

Banda Blanca is a music group founded in 1971 in San Pedro Sula, which landed in the TV program Garzas Blancas, 1991, written by Hernán Chico Ramos and Juan Pilo Tejeda and produced by EMI Latin song " Sopa de Caracol " a big hit. Were inspired Tejeda and Ramos to stay in the coastal town of Tela, as the two snail soup and ate and watched the dances of Garífunas. The song reached number one in the Billboard Latin Charts. Sopa de Caracol end of 1991 was the fifth best Latin Single of the Year in 1991 and received the Seagull Award at the festival in Viña del Mar and the Lo Nuestro Award -. This was the Punta Garifuna, the traditional music of the Garifuna in the Central American Caribbean coast, known worldwide. The group adapted this name and replaced by Garza Banda. The incoming rhythm of the song with stylistic elements of salsa, soca, merengue, calypso and other afroantillianischen dance elements gained great international popularity. Banda Blanca had several live performances on Carnival events such as the Festival de la Canción de Viña del Mar, Carnaval de La Calle 8 in Miami, Carnaval de la Calle Broadway in Los Angeles, Carnaval de Acapulco, Carnaval de Barranquilla Carnaval de Tenerife, Spain and Festival Jazz in Aruba. Other famous hits of the band were "Fiesta ", " Sigan bailando " and " Oye este canto ". In 1994, the band lived for a time in Mexico and moved to Miami / Florida later. Banda Blanca is still regarded as one of the most famous bands from Honduras.

Discography

• Junto a Tí
• Fiesta Inolvidable 1-5
• Sopa de Caracol (1991 )
• Fiesta (1992 )

Occupation

• Julio Ardon: Lead singer
• Oscar Gerardo Galindo: Bass
• Juan Tejeda Pompilio Duarte: teclados and singing
• José Luis Rodríguez: percussion
• Héctor Altamirano: guitar and vocals
• Adan Rodriguez: teclados and singing
• Jorge Morales: Congas
• Jeronimo Midence: alto saxophone
• Fatima Caceres: dancer
• Verónica Caceres: dancer
• Susana Sánchez: dancer