Banda Conmoción

Banda Conmoción
Origin	Villa Alemana, Valparaíso, Chile
Genres	Cumbia, cumbia andina, fusion latinoamericana
Years active	2001–present
Labels	Oveja Negra
Members	Current members:

Banda Conmoción are a Chilean ensemble band who mix cumbia and gypsy music with genres such as ska and cha-cha-cha. They are part of the new Latin American fusion movement and emerged in the early naughties along with groups like Chico Trujillo and La Floripondio. They are also considered part of the New Chilean Cumbia movement.

The band's first incarnation was as part of a theater troupe called Mendicantes in 1997. Four years later, in 2001, they established themselves as a separate band, though they continued to collaborate with the theatre group until 2005.

From 2005 onwards, they cut ties with Mendicantes and began to perform alone. Their performances were never on conventional stages: they performed in public spaces such as plazas, street corners, weddings or parties. As they became better known, the started to take on bigger stages such as the Galpon Victor Jara (Victor Jara "Warehouse"), a magnet for independent musicians in Santiago's Barrio Brasil neighborhood. Their repertoire has included genres as diverse as cumbia, Andean music, ska, cha cha cha, porro, waltz, bolero, and gypsy music, among others, which combine to produce a unique sound.

In 2008, Banda Conmoción released their first album, Pregonero, an early Latin American and Spanish name for a town crier. Pregonero pulled together all the original tracks created by the band in the seven years since their formation in 2001.

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