Fusion Jonda
Puerto Rican band
Fusion Jonda is a Puerto Rican band that blends Caribbean music with gypsy-flamenco sounds, melodies, and rhythms. The band has centered its music around Afrobeat, jazz, Arabic, and Indian music and has a contemporary approach.
As for the band's name, the word Jonda, a Spanish anachronism for deep, is related to Cante Jondo (in English, Deep Singing), which is the origin of Flamenco. The band is based on flamenco roots, and the "Fusion" comes from the Hispanic, Indian and African harmonies that they inherited in the Caribbean.
History
Fusion Jonda began in 2010 as a trio around its founding members: musician-singer-songwriter, Juan Luis Romero, percussionist, Wilfredo "El Canela" Dávila, and flamenco dancer, Patricia Muñiz. The salsa, rock, and jazz blend had not been unfamiliar to bandleader Romero because of his Puerto Rican and Dominican background. He is part of a family dedicated to music, poetry, journalism, law, and education. He studied piano and music composition at a very young age and dreamed of producing musical interchanges between the rhythms from the Antilles and Latin America. At age 13, he led his first orchestra. He went on to be a member of a variety of bands of different genres including jazz, heavy metal singer, tenor of a Gospel music choir, chorister for the salsa legends Richie Ray & Bobby Cruz, and pianist for several Tropical music bands.
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