Frente Cumbiero

• Company: Biche

Project attributes

With a large and successful career, FRENTE CUMBIERO has become one of the biggest representatives in the exploration of cumbia’s sonic identity in Latin America. Headed by Colombian songwriter and producer Mario Galeano Toro (also founding member of Ondatrópica and Los Pirañas), Frente Cumbiero is recognized as a spearhead of Colombia’s new cumbia movement.

Among Frente’s most remarkable live appearances, are the project’s shows at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in 2011, Festival Estéreo Picnic (2011), Roskilde Festival (2011), Womad (2014), Fuji Rock (2018) and tours across Latin America, Africa, Europe, the U.S., Russia, Australia, New Zealand and Japan, in addition to 33” and 45” vinyl releases made by labels in North America (Names You Can Trust), Spain (Vampisoul) and Japan (Okra/Tokyo Sabroso).

Active for over a decade, and going way beyond the concept of cumbia as fashion, Frente Cumbiero are the true followers of the guacharaca calling.