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Los Kjarkas

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2006 - 35 años
2001 - Lección de Vida
1998 - El lider de los humildes
1998 - Al carnaval
1998 - Al carnaval, volume II
1997 - Por Siempre...
1996 - Sentimiento andino
1995 - Quiquin... Pacha
1994 - A los 500 años
1993 - Hermanos
1991 - Tecno Kjarkas
1991 - El árbol de mi destino
1990 - Los Andes... Descubrió su rostro milenario
1989 - Genesis Aymara
1989 - Sin palabras
1988 - Chuquiagu Marka
1985 - El amor y la libertad
1985 - Los Kjarkas desde el Japón
1984 - Pueblos perdidos
1982 - Sol de los Andes
1981 - Canto a la mujer de mi pueblo
1981 - Desde el alma de mi pueblo
1980 - Condor Mallcu
1979 - Kutimuy (Vuelve)
1977 - Sueño Milenario de los Andes
1976 - Kjarkas

Members
6 Male

Origin
Bolivia

Genre
Folk

Style
Folk

Mood
Sentimental

Active
1965 to Present...

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1 users Los Kjarkas - Llorando se fue
1 users Los Kjarkas - Saya Sensual
1 users Los Kjarkas - Fría


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Wa ya yay	Llorando se fue	T'una papita
Munasq'echay	Fría

Artist Biography
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Los Kjarkas is a Bolivian band from Capinota, Cochabamba. It is one of the most popular Andean folk music bands in the country's history. Among the styles they play are saya, caporal, tuntuna, huayno, and carnavales. The instruments the band uses include the charango, quena, zampoña, ronroco, guitar, and bombo.
The band's leader has always been singer, guitarist and songwriter Gonzalo Hermosa González, who formed the band with his brothers Élmer Hermosa González and Ulises Hermosa González, as well as Gastón Guardia Bilboa and Ramiro de la Zerda in 1965.

"Llorando se fue", and the Lambada plagiarism controversy
In the mid-1980s, Los Kjarkas were at their peak of their popularity. Then suddenly a plagiarism case would catapult them even further. In 1989, a French group called Kaoma popularized a new dance called Lambada, but the song Lambada was actually an unauthorized cover of Llorando se fue, composed by Ulises Hermosa and Gonzalo Hermosa and sung by Los Kjarkas in the saya rhythm. The song had reached Kaoma after being covered by two other musicians: Cuarteto Continental (1984), and Márcia Ferreira (1986), the latter being a legally authorized adaptation into Portuguese. Then Jean Georgakarakos and Olivier Lorsac discovered Ferreira's version in Porto Seguro, Brazil, and when they returned to Paris, they registered the composition under the name Lambada, and with a fictional composer called Chico de Oliveira, which turned out to be a pseudonym for Olivier Lamotte d'Incamps, aka Olivier Lorsac, one of the producers of Kaoma.
The Bolivian group had registered the song in Germany's GEMA, and afterwards both Los Kjarkas and Márcia Ferreira sued Kaoma. And that would lead to the recognition by French courts that they were the rightful owners of the song's copyrights. Kaoma had to pay a large financial compensation to Los Kjarkas and Márcia Ferreira.
The incident helped Los Kjarkas become even better known in Europe, Asia, and the Americas.
The song was sampled by multiple artists afterwards, including on Don Omar's "Taboo" and on Jennifer Lopez's single "On the Floor".


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