“It is not easy, but we have managed to cope with things as a family band.

“In the almost 10 years we have been together, each one of us has realized his role and the role we play as a band,” Muñoz muses. The band started making music as a hobby, as well as a necessity for creation, fusing talents while becoming a family rather than making it a work matter. Instead, Gaxiola devotes to the tuba for the bass notes, and in combination with a twelve-fret guitar, a diatonic accordion and drums, the group has become one of the vanguards of the genre.Ĭalibre 50 Earns 14th Top 10 On Regional Mexican Albums Chart With 'Simplemente Gracias' There is no tololoche or electrical bass, typical of banda music. The set’s musical experimentation with use of traditional folk instruments stands out. 1s on the Regional Mexican Albums chart, dating back to its first chart leader, Contigo, which debuted atop the list in June 2014. We haven’t been looking for things to happen rather things have found us.” “Since then, everything has been fitting in well. “Then, each decided to take in a new project.” Garcia and Gaxiola brought in their own touch of freshness and innovation. “My compadre Martín and Augusto were part of the first phase of Calibre 50 for about four years,” Muñoz recalls.

“But as time passes and one matures as a person and as an artist, one asks: Why didn’t I leave it sooner?”įive years ago, Erick García replaced Augusto Guido on drums and Alejandro Gaxiola substituted for Martín Lopez on tuba. “When you come from such a process where you have invested time, years, sometimes it is difficult to let it go,” Muñoz tells Billboard over the phone. Renovar o Morir (translated in English to Renew or Die), Calibre 50’s debut album earned the act its first Billboard Regional Mexican Albums chart entry and its first top 10 debut in 2010 (No. The quartet launched its career almost a decade ago and built a name for itself undergoing a series of transitions which began when founding member and front man, Edén Muñoz, left his previous band, Puro Colmillo Norteño, to launch Calibre 50. Norteño music band from Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Calibre 50 seems pretty self-assured.

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