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Amerikandes was born in 1997, with its greatest dream that was to represent the popular Latin-American music; its musical gender is a mixture of sanjuanitos, pasacalles, albazos, bombas, cuban, spanish, hungarian, israeli, russian, and others.

This particular folk group is formed by four Ecuadorian musicians, all of them, members of the Andean Symphonic Orchestra, unique in the world since 1990. Each member has a long musical experience, and they have played with some other famous groups such as the bolero and ballad Ecuadorian group Gemmini´s

Amerikandes uses traditional instruments form the Andes to play its music, and some traditional too, among them are acoustic guitar, bandolín, keyboards, synthesizers, pan flute, quena, rondador, and voice effects.

Amerikandes’ members are Marcelo Martínez, Alejandro Guerrero, Rodrigo Sánchez and Carlos Cevallos; they assure to love Latin-American music and stand for Latin-American rights. They think the music is the best link between sister Latin-American nations and in that way, raise a complain for change and improvement for the poor and hungry people.

Among their releases are “América para el mundo” (cassette), “Amerikandes” (cassette), and their first CD “Los mejores temas” which will be out for sale next year.

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Updated: 11/01/04