Chico Trujillo

Chico Trujillo is Chile's most prominent Cumbia band. They are the soundtrack to every party from Santiago to Valparaiso. They can fill stadiums, have played with legends Los Tres and Los Fabulosos Cadillacs. Their mixture of classic cumbia and hints of rock and ska has assured them audiences from every generation and every walk of life.

Chico Trujillo started as an offshoot of punk/Ska band LaFloripondio in 1999. Ten years and four albums later, the offshoot has come to symbolize a uniquely Chilean cocktail. One that is rooted in the cumbias of the pre-Pinochet days and manages to incorporate every aspect of Chile's popular culture. They have meshed bits and pieces of Chile's fragemented past with the global influence of alternative culture and merged it all under the pan-latin banner of Cumbia.

They have shared the stage with Los fabulosos Cadillacs, have performed at every major Chilean festival and have made in recent years several European tour (Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, France, Spain, Sweden) during which they managed to convey good humor and love of the music at tens and tens of thousands of people.

"Of those who will have yesterday evening seen them in concert, nobody wonders more that this one made room fill in Chile. [...] from the first songs, the public seems unanimous [...] everybody agrees to raise arms, roaring in the glory of a band known since hardly about ten minutes."
writes Le Télégramme, about their concert to the Festival du Bout du Monde, in August, 2008

It's the first time since ska erupted out of Jamaican onto the world’s dance floors (three times over) that a a popular musical movement not born in the United States is going global. This time, though, it’s a hispanophone movement, making huge headways in Latin America, Europe and Japan.