Máxima
Alerta
All over Cuba, young people listen keenly to
radio programs featuring reggaeton and their favorite group, Máxima Alerta.
It all began in Santa Clara, a busy city in
the center of Cuba, where Ray Machado aka “El Italiano”, the lead singer,
musical director, and composer for most of the songs of the group, developed
the group.
In 2003 Máxima Alerta exploded on
the scene, hitting radio and television stations with two songs, "Cast pa
'front' and “Adegüello 1895" which very quickly became popular throughout the
country. Thanks to these successes, in 2004 they delivered their new album “Llegaron los Alertas”, recorded at
Abdala Studios owned by renowned singer/composer Silvio Rodriguez with the
French company Lusafrica, and joining their catalog and sharing the stage with
popular groups such as La
Orquesta Aragón, Polo Montañez, Anacaona, Isaac Delgado, Osdalgia, among
others.
In 2005 Máxima Alerta was
nominated to Cubadisco as “Best Album Rap, Dance and Hip Hop” which garnered
the group great popularity both nationally and internationally, as well as
topping the charts. Later in 2009 the group returned to the top of the charts
with the song "La Figura" recorded with the group Gente de Zona.
Later in
2011, they released the CD “Alertas
para Todos”, recorded and produced by Nando Pro in Havana, Cuba. This is
an album containing fourteen tracks, of which six feature special guests: Yulien Oviedo and Dantes
(Charanga Habanera); Alexander Delgado y Randy Marcos (Gente de Zona); Sisto
Llorente "El Indio" (Orquesta Aragón); and Alain Daniel and Ramón
Lavado (El Chacal). The CD also
features a song dedicated to one of the greatest Cuban baseball players, Victor
Mesa.
The group has crafted an intense and dynamic
signature sound. This fresh sound is a fusion: elastic bass lines, powerful
programming, catchy choruses sung in unison with warlike ardor, counterpoints
that owe as much (if not more) to rap as to reggae or Latin beats… it all comes
together to showcase voices that drive themselves mercilessly, to unleash a
verbal bombardment of exceptional skill and intensity but at the same time accentuating the flavor
and influence of Cuban music.
In October of 2015,
Máxima Alerta will arrive in the United States to a swarm
of eager fans waiting to hop on the musical train that is on track to take over
the music world.
The rest is
history to be written.
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