Yolocamba Ita

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The word Yolocamba I ta has its origin from two native languages from Central America, the Chorti and the Lenca now disappeared from El Salvador but still spoken in some native communities in Central America from the South East and South West of Honduras and South East of Guatemala. Yolocamba I Ta might mean “The Melancholy of the People” or “The Rebellion of a Crop”. The Group Yolocamba I Ta was founded in August of 1975 by two brothers, Franklin Quezada and Roberto Quezada, in the company of Manuel Gomez and Paulino Espinoza, while they were attending High School, a school called Externado San Jose in San Salvador, El Salvador. From the beginning the group was created motivated by the researching, explore and expand Salvadorian folklore music. That motivation got the band involve with the social-historical reality. Promoting then a cultural evolution and fusion that would embrace a harmony of multiples back ground ethnicities present in El Salvador, Central America and the whole continent. Yolocamba I Ta took part in an organization and foundation called MUCAPAS (Musicos y Cantores Populares Asociados Salvadoreños-(1976-1977)) and a movement of popular culture (MCP-1977-1982) which reunited more than 300 artists from El Salvador demanding better conditions, social justice, human rights respect and a better appreciation of art and popular culture. MCP organized popular cultural acts in which the band was always present. Due to a government repression the MCP disappeared

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