Sig Ragga
musical group of Argentina
Sig Ragga is an Argentine reggae fusion band formed in 1997. The band consists of Gustavo "Tavo" Cortés (vocals and keyboards), Ricardo "Pepo" Cortés (drums and backing vocals), Juan José "Juanjo" Casals (bass) and Nicolás Gonzalez (guitar and backing vocals). The band has released four studio albums and received five Gardel Award nominations and seven Latin Grammy Award nominations.
Career
The band was formed in 1997 in Santa Fe, Argentina, initially Tavo Cortés and Nicolás González started playing music together at 13 while attending to the same school, Tavo's brother Pepo Cortés would join later playing the drums. In 1998, they recorded their first demo with the songs "Ciudad Smog", "Fuga Número 13" and "Filosofía" which helped them to participate in several Ska music festivals, performing with self-made costumes, make-up and body paint. The name of the band comes from playing with the names of different cities from South Africa, mixing them into new words, this experimentation led to the name Sig Ragga Naurú, later being transformed into Sig Ragga.
In 2000, Juanjo Casals joins the band playing the bass. During the same year they start releasing songs like "Guajira", "Apocalipsis", "Eclipse", "Obra 03" y "Reencarnación", later doing recording sessions in 2005 alongside Diego Blanco, keyboardist of the band Los Pericos, as engineer which would lead to the idea of a possible album. The band performed at the Pepsi Music Festival in 2006, 2008 and 2009, alongside reggae artists such as The Skatalites, Ziggy Marley, Los Cafres and Cultura Profética, among others.
During 2009, they work in their first professional music video "Cuchillos" with featured vocals from Pato Banton.
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