Artist description Markama (meaning "to the people" in the Quechua language) was born in Mendoza, Argentina during the first months of 1975. With the aim of creating a new musical project concerned with the popular roots of Latin American soul, the musicians became united and impelled the use of an extraordinary variety of autochthonous instruments which are the expression of their identity. That's the way it happened. Markama has been, since its beginning, a group of singular characteristics.

Music Style Folklore

Musical Influences Andes

Artist History The repertory can be classified in three parts. - Anonymous pieces, - Pieces composed by contemporary Latin American composers and songwriters. - Original pieces composed by Markama's musicians.Whoever may try to catalogue Markama as part of a certain style of music, will only get a single answer: It is a special affiliation to the music that spans the entire Andes, and by extension, the whole continent. It is nothing more.Markama does not intend to be identified with native music even though this is Markama’s main source of inspiration. Why? simply because the aim is to generate an aesthetic concept free of any restriction or settled rule.

Group Members Archi Zambrano, Mingo Casciani, Pablo Salcedo

Location Lujan De Cuyo, Mendoza - Argentina

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