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Aterciopelados bring their alternative Latin organic rock to Oz
Colombian music icons Aterciopelados will visit Australia for the first time ever with an East Coast tour that will take their Grammy Award winning sound to Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Canberra during the October long week end. This celebration of alternative Latin music by one of the most important Latino rockers will be an opportunity to introduce Australian audiences to a sound that has swept the Americas and created megastars along the way.

Accompanied by some of the best musicians in Colombia during their visit to Australia, the pair is renowned for creating magic onstage. Bandleaders Andrea Echeverri and Hector Buitrago have forged a long time creative relationship, which has been described as the source for Aterciopeladosâ€Ââ„¢ musical genius. â€ÂÅ“We have had quite a musical career, which has evolved over the years through our own identity search and experimentation, finding our own sound,” Echeverri says. â€ÂÅ“We really complement each other musically in a way that works. And more important than anything, we have love and respect for each other.”

The band is well known for their political activism and their work for environmental and human rights issues. Their latest album, Rio, is a call to action that finds Aterciopelados at a new level of creativity and musicality. It coincides with a proposed Colombian constitutional referendum that declares a citizenâ€Ââ„¢s right to clean drinking water is a basic human right. â€ÂÅ“When I was growing up, the Bogotá River was considered a mythic and iconic place, and now itâ€Ââ„¢s a tiny stream,” says Echeverri.