Banda Los Sebastianes

Banda los Recoditos are a Regional Mexican band from Sinaloa. Their basic sound is rooted in tradition, adorned with high-register horns, tuba, and rich harmony vocals. They scored their first international hit in 2010 with "Ando Bien Pedo" after two decades of intermittent activity and limited success. Since that time, their singles and albums have consistently appeared inside the Top 20 on most Latin charts. 2016's long-player Me Está Gustando topped the Regional Mexican charts, as did 2017's Los Gustos Que Me Doy. The video singles from 2019's Perfecta including its title track and "No le Hago Falta" garnered more than 200 million views each. In 2020, they issued 30 Aniversario, comprised of 30 tracks recorded across their career. They followed with Vivir la Vida in 2021 and the EP Me Siento a Todo Dar in 2022. Hailing from Mazatlán, Sinaloa, the band was founded in 1989 by friends and family members of La Banda el Recodo de Cruz Lizárraga. Vocalists Alfonso Lizárraga (also known as Poncho Lizárraga) and Pancho Barraza (born Francisco Javier Barraza Rodríguez) were two of the more than a dozen members in the original incarnation of Banda los Recoditos. In association with Musart, the group released several albums during the '90s before Lizárraga left to join La Banda el Recodo and Barraza left for a solo career. After a period of dormancy, Banda los Recoditos regrouped with vocalists Carlos Perez, Luis Angel Franco, and Carlos Sarabia and refashioned themselves with a looser, hipper style that appealed to the emerging regional Mexican youth market and was well-suited for videos. In 2005 the group were awarded Popular Breakthrough of the Year at the Premios Oye! for Si No Existieras, the third album by the new lineup. In the wake of this acclaim, Banda los Recoditos teamed up with parent group La Banda el Recodo and released Dos Generaciones (2006). While subsequent albums Vengo a Decirte (2007) and Y Seguimos Enamorados (2009) continued to expand their fan base, ¡Ando Bien Pedo! (2010) was the record that ultimately put Banda los Recoditos over the top in the United States. Released on the Univision Music Group label Disa Records, ¡Ando Bien Pedo! topped the Billboard Latin Albums chart and its title track topped the Top Latin Songs chart. One of the most popular regional Mexican songs of the year, "Ando Bien Pedo," was unique in that it crossed over to the Latin pop market. The band's profile remained high over subsequent releases such as 2011's A Toda Madre and 2012's Para Ti Solita. Arriving in 2013, El Free was Banda los Recoditos' final album for Disa. They signed with Fonovisa the following year and released the controversial Sueño XXX, followed in 2015 by the companion album Más Sueño XXX. Despite the album's sexually themed content, the recording eventually ended up on the Top 200 charts in early 2016 -- the same week that their follow-up, Me Está Gustando, did. A compilation album, Las Bandas Románticas, appeared the following April. In 2017, Banda los Recoditos returned with the studio effort Los Gustos Que Me Doy, featuring the single "No le Hago Falta." While the single placed inside the Top 25 on the Hot Latin Songs chart, the album topped the Regional Mexican Albums list. Banda los Recoditos followed it with the concert date En Vivo in the spring of 2018. The studio album, Perfecta, arrived in July 2019. It was the band's first record since singer Rafael González, who'd joined the group after the departure of Luis Angel Franco, left to pursue a solo career. In 2020, the band issued 30 Aniversario, a collection of 30 tracks recorded across the trajectory of their career. It offered many later fans their first opportunity to hear the group's early work. 2021 saw the release of Vivir la Vida; in addition to seven new Banda los Recoditos songs, it also included collaborations with Grupo Codiciado and Banda los Sebastianes. The following year saw the release of the EP Me Siento a Todo Dar, which included the hit single of the same name.
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