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string(2034) "Bongo District is one of the hardest working bands in the DMV, showcasing a fusion of sounds as reflected in their multinational lineup,” says Distrito founder Daniel Gomez. Pedro Alfaro is the group’s bass player and one of its singers who is from El Salvador and moved here in 2015. He has been a musician since he was about 13 years old. “I started looking for people that would play the music that I was playing,” he explains. “Long story short, four years after that, we (he and guitar player Luis) finally found the members of Bongo District that are going to remain as the ones that we have right now … It’s just playing songs and styles that we all like, and we all get along because we do it.” The band grew naturally as more and more people wanted to jam, eventually growing to six members, Alfaro says.
The members of Bongo District are from all over: Chile, the Dominican Republic, Bolivia, and El Salvador. They have been together with this lineup for about two years, “And within that time period – from the time I started playing to now, we have about four to five original songs. But when we make covers, we really make them our own; so it’s not original music, but it’s a mix … we’d like to call what we play a mixture of reggae and cumbia,” Alfaro says. “We like to mix a lot of ska … I really like Jamaican music – all of it, and any generation of it. And when we started playing cumbia, people just seemed to love it,” he adds.
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The Loving Paupers:
Formed in 2015 in Washington, DC by former members of The Pietasters, The Smooths, and several other local reggae and ska bands, The Loving Paupers play reggae music with some pop influences
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