ORQUESTA LA-33

HISTORY

Although the band was born in 2002, in the Teusaquillo district of Bogotá, its launch comes on 3 May 2003 The former convent of San Juan Evangelista located on 33rd Street, was where these young rehearsed, more rockers seem salseros and hence the name of the group emerged.

Its members Sergio Mejia (director and bass), Santiago Mejia (coordinator and piano), Cipriano Rojas (congas), Juan David Fernandez (timpani), Diego Sanchez (bongos), Vladimir Romero (trombone), José Miguel Vega (trombone), Felipe Cardenas (sax), Roland Nieto (trumpet), Guillermo Celis (voice), David Cantillo (voice), Paul Martinez (voice), Javier Galavis (sound engineer), Ray Fuquen (field producer) went from playing pallets in a considerable number of bars in Bogota, Medellin, Cali, Quito, Spain and Berlin festival stages in Europe, nationally recognized festivals and share with artists like Willy Colón, Los Van Van, Chucho Valdez and the orchestra Broadway between otras.La Pantera Mambo was the theme that became known in the outside thanks to salsomanos, friends, clubs, and internet marketers.

"La Pantera Mambo" is a salcera cover of the Pink Panther, made by Henrry Manzini, the dj theme honked at the time of the rumba, causing euphoria public.

The most amazing thing is that La-33 have achieved recognition back to commercial radio and who are not enrolled in any famous label. In November 2004 recorded "La-33" his first CD, and in April 2007 "Gózalo" already; a week of its release was ranking       sixth in store sales of Tower Records.