Los Kjarkas
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| Los Kjarkas | |
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| Origin | Bolivia |
| Genre(s) | Andean pop |
| Years active | 1965 – present |
| Label(s) | Lauro, Discolandia, ANS Records, Heriba |
| Associated acts | Grupo Fortaleza, Pacha |
| Website | Official Site |
| Members | |
| Gonzalo Hermosa González Elmer Hermosa González Gastón Guardia Bilboa Makoto Shishido Lin Angulo Gonzalo Hermosa González Jr. |
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| Former members | |
| Ramiro de la Zerda Ulises Hermosa González Eduardo Yáñez Loayza Rolando Malpartida Porcel José Luis Morales Rodríguez |
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Los Kjarkas is a Bolivian band, one of the most popular Andean pop bands in the country's recent history. Their most popular song, "Llorando se Fue", with some of its basic melodies and harmonies being based on Bolivian popular music of public domain, was licenced by French producers, Jean Karakos and Olivier Lorsac which resulted in Kaoma's hit, Lambada. Kjarkas also founded two schools focusing on Andean folk music, the Musical School of Kjarkas (Lima, Peru) and La Fundación Kjarkas (Ecuador). They have toured across Japan, Europe and Scandinavia, the United States and South America.
The band's leader has always been singer, guitarist and songwriter Gonzalo Hermosa González, who formed the band with his brothers Elmer Hermosa González and Ulises Hermosa González, as well as Gastón Guardia Bilboa and Ramiro de la Zerda. De la Zerda left group to form Grupo Fortaleza and Ulises Hermosa died of cancer in 1992, replaced by Eduardo Yáñez Loayza, Rolando Malpartida Porcel and José Luis Morales Rodríguez. By 2002, however, Japanese born Makoto Shishido, Lin Angulo, & Gonzalo Hermosa González junior had replaced Yáñez, Porcel, & Rodríguez.
