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 Ondatr?pica and Los Pira?as), 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 Est?reo 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), Japan (Okra/Tokyo Sabroso) and Colombia / M?xico (La Roma Records) Frente Cumbiero's catalogue is also marked by successful contributions with legendary musicians such as Mad Professor (Frente Cumbiero Meets Mad Professor, 2011) and Kronos Quartet, which have proved the project to be on its way to expanding the frontiers of cumbia and Latin music. After a phase as an electronic act consisting of Galeano exclusively (which brought along important shows in festivals such as S?nar Bogot?/Santiago/Buenos Aires, as well as the first installment of Boiler Room Bogot?), Frente Cumbiero has returned to its traditional quartet format, which focuses in the most powerful bangs of tropical sound on the dancefloor, combining 2 wind instruments, live percussion and electronic sounds/ dubbed sequences. 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.
