I co-founded Superfónicos, a Colombian funk band, in 2014 with bassist Nico Sanchez as a tribute to our Colombian heritage. Teaming up with guitarist Andres Villegas, percussionist Daniel Sanchez, and gaitero and vocalist Jaime Ospina. Together we created a unqiue sound that telegraphs a politics of peace and unity. In 2018, we released our debut EP Suelta that garnered national press accolades from Rolling Stone, Billboard, NPR's Alt.Latino, KCRW's Pan Caliente, and have lead to festival performances at Austin City Limits Festival, SXSW, Levitation Festival, Auditorium Shores New Year’s Eve, and ACL Radio's Blues on The Green. Ultimately we were nominated as “Artist of the Year” and Best Latin band from the Austin Music Awards. The band’s success has been the outcome of organic growth and auspicious timing. In 2018, The Austin Chronicle picked us as an Austin “Breakthrough Band.” Soon national attention came from NPR’s Alt.Latino who spotlighted us as a rising act from SXSW and shortlisted our Tiny Desk Concert entry as a “LatinX Artist They Loved.”

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The same year our debut EP Suelta dropped. In a two part session was recorded it at the respective studios of GRAMMY award winners Adrian Quesada’s Electric Deluxe Recorders (Black Pumas) and Beto Martinez’s Lechehouse Music (Grupo Fantasma, Brownout, Money Chicha), who engineered the sessions. The release was then mixed by Carlos “El Loco” Bedoya, who has worked with Missy Elliot, Beyonce and Chocquibtown.

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In Late 2018, and now good friend Jim Eno (drummer of Spoon) invited us to his beautiful Public Hi-Fi studio to record two songs straight to analog tape with no overdubs. The record, available on 7-inch vinyl, was the first in a new series offered through a partnership between Gold Rush Vinyl and Public Hi-Fi called the Prospector Series. 

 

Throughout 2019, Superfónicos a series of Black Fret house concerts and events, which culminated in being awarded a $20,000 grant.