Negrita




negrita is one of the most important rock bands in italy, multi-award winning, multi-platinum selling and constantly reinventing themselves with a mix of mestizo sounds that are trademark in their latest release 'hell dorado'.

Negrita was formed in the early '90s by ex-members of a band called inu-dibili. While touring the local club circuit, the band recorded its first ep in 1992. After two intense years of tours negrita finally released their debut album: “negrita” (polygram/mercury) immediately revealing the essence of the band: irresistible guitar riffs, “stainless” rhythm section, powerful bass grooves and incisive vocal lines delivering relevant messages to the audience. The debut album immediately gets a very good feedback from both media and the people, thanks to the smash hit “cambio” - which reaches the top of all charts very fast, and also thanks to a very long and successful tour consolidating negrita’s kicking live shows.

Their following releases “paradisi per illusi”, “xxx”, “reset” and “radio zombie” establish negrita as one of the best italian acts, with each album getting an individual approach, from bluesy arrangements recorded in new orleans to recording an anthem song in "mama maé", confirming the band's position in the market as solid.

It’s time for a greatest hit and negrita do it their own way: “ehi! Negrita”, the best of their repertoire in 19 tracks, a long journey into the band’s world, enriched by three new tracks. One of these unreleased tracks, “magnolia” enjoys a terrific radio and video airplay (top 5 charted, top 15 for 29 consecutive weeks) and ensures negrita a wider audience.

In 2005 negrita releases “l’uomo sogna di volare”. It’s the result of a shared project – a director, a photographer and the producer fabrizio barbacci also take part in the plan. It’s a voyage through the artists’ mind and soul, born from the south american tour. The band plays in a series of musical events and concerts in chile, argentina, brasil bringing a light luggage with them filling it with new hints, emotions and ideas during the trip. The album is released among arezzo, rio, salvador de baja, motril and figueres (spain) sharing opinions with musicians, meeting artists and common people from other countries. It’s a mix of different sounds from funk to blues – with the richness of brazilian drummers such as peu meurrey and itajata jose de sa – from electro-reggae (“mother”) to punk (“il mio veleno”), from the beatles (“tutto bene”, sung by drigo) to the latine atmosphere of teresa; from balcanic influences- cesare comes from croatia- to jamaican and sicilian’s (“il branco”).

Negrita's latest album was recorded in buenos aires and in tuscany, following a tour with the argentinian band bersuit getting a great response from the spanish audience and critics. Hell dorado is a new musical and conceptual journey on the contradictions of the contemporary world: a 360° exploration on sounds and lyrics (in italian, spanish, french and portuguese), whereby africa, latin america, jamaica and spain are the grid references for the wide musical universe of the band in these last years. All mixed with a rock’n’roll attitude quite uncommon both in italy and abroad and thanks to its international collaborations and inspiration it addresses a worldwide community and speaks to everyone.

Helldorado hits the italian radio networks with the two singles: “che rumore fa la felicità” and “radio conga” receiving a wide approval by public and critics.

Following a successful run of sold out shows, the helldorado tour now reaches one of london's finest venues, the electric ballroom in camden town.