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Juanafé
12+ albums
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about
Juana Fe is a musical band, but their fundamentals, their inspiration, and their ways of working transcend the strictly artistic, and they are - for that reason - one of the most striking projects of the Chilean music scene of the 2000s. Known massively for their 2007 song "Callejero", the group develops Chilean and continental tropical sounds, has performed extensively in Chile, and has travelled abroad several times. In 2014, the band's founder and singer, Juanito Ayala, left the band's label and studio La makinita. Without him, the group incorporated a new voice and has continued with its history. The band was born as a restlessness of percussionist and singer Juan Ayala, and bassist Jaime Concha, both members of Mal de Chagas until 2002. The influence of musicians such as the Latin-French Sargento García, at a time when these sounds had hardly any echoes in Chile, led them to seek musical paths less restricted to rock. Together with guitarist Gonzalo Diablo Ibáñez, they consolidated a creative nucleus and began to call themselves Juana Fe. The name was inspired by the character of "Mrs. Juanita", recurrently quoted by President Ricardo Lagos, in a reference that they found derogatory: "The name is a response to that bullshit of devaluing popular knowledge. To call her Mrs Juanita is to laugh at her, and that's why we call ourselves Juana Fe", says Juan Ayala. Street musicians and pachangueros The three of them were university students, but they decided that in order to
