On the picture Harold Orozco, La Mambanegra.
By Roy Lie Atjam.
The Hague, it is Thursday 17 May 2018, the venue, Het Korenhuis, the Embassy of Colombia in the Netherlands presented one of the most popular salsa groups in the World! JacoboVélez and his band La Mambanegra.
Created in 2012 in Cali, Colombia, this Latin America music orchestra has been performing on numerous scenes in the world. El Callegüeso y Su Mala Maña is a much-appreciated piece. La Mambanegra is La nouvelle vague Colombienne !
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia Cultural Diplomacy’s program, aspires to promote knowledge of Colombia’s cultural expressions: literature, cinema, gastronomy and of course music to the world.
La Mambanegra put on a dazzling concert at the Korenhuis The Hague on Thursday 17 May. Some of Ambassador Juan Jose Quintana’s colleagues, Peru, Argentina, Curacao and others joined the fabulous salsa+ party. The ambiente was unmistakably Colombian-Latin America.
The band by all means succeeded in capturing the attention of the audience from start to finish. La Mambanegra presents a repertoire called “Break Salsa” a Latin music mixture of Colombian music, funk, New York salsa, R&B, along with Jamaican influences.
Members of the orchestra are:
- JacoboVélez – singer, saxophone
- Sergio ‘Checho’ Orobio – song, güiro
- Roger Torres – trumpet
- Fabio ‘Mifa’ Lucumi – trombone
- Daniel Gutierrez – keyboard
- YefersonCarabaldiObando – base
- Harold Orozco – drums, timbales
- Juan Carlos Arrechea – conga
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La Mambanegra is on a Eurasian tour that will take them to Azerbaijan, Turkey, Poland and Portugal.
This is how Colombia presents itself to the world!
