Orquesta Guayacán

A Colombian salsa band led by Alexis Lozano, Orquesta Guayacán rose to prominence during the 1990s. Born in Quibdó, the capital of Chocó, a Pacific coastal region of the country with a large Afro-Colombian population, Lozano began his musical career in tandem with Jairo Varela. The two musicians met as students in Bogotá and co-founded the group Niche, with which Lozano recorded four albums: Al Pasito (1979), Querer Es Poder (1981), Preparate Grupo Niche, Vol. 2 (1982), and Niche (1983). Lozano then split with Varela and founded his own group, Orquesta Guayacán, which made its...