KACHUPA

The Kachupa has its origin in a street band born throughout Europe. In the beginning, there was a tiny handcart on top of which the drum player used to sit and perform, and the rest of the band kept on going all around him. With this show, the band sold about 5000 EPs all around Italy and France. In 2006, the band came out with the album "GABROVO EXPRESS," awarded as the Best Autoproduced Album of the year by the National Radio Network. In May 2006, "GABROVO EXPRESS" came out in all Italian newsstands, together with "World Music Magazine." Kachupa started playing at prestigious festivals alongside well-known artists, getting to perform at the Night of Taranta in 2010, as winners of the "Notes for the Night" competition. In 2011, "TERZO BINARIO," a fresh album that features 12 original pieces written by the band itself as a summary of personal histories, travels, experiences, and parties, came out. In October, the band received the "Sanremo Village 2011" award, in a competition associated with the most important and famous Italian Music Festival. In 2013, the live CD "RADICI" ("Roots"), with the live performances of the band featuring a lot of traditional songs from the Balkans and the south of Italy, came out. On the 1st of May 2014, they got to perform in the "1st May Big Concert," in front of more than 500,000 people, on Eurovision in Rome. Their single "Siamo tutti Africani" ("We are all Africans") jumped to the top of iTunes' world music chart. Thanks to this song, in 2014 they became Slow Food Ambassadors. The song is used as the anthem of Terra Madre and is chosen by Carlo Petrini, Slow Food's president, as the movement's hymn. In the same year, they won the Absolute Award in the "Inedited World Music Festival," with Bluey Maunick, international band Incognito's leader, as the only judge. In the same year, Maunick worked on an English remix of "Siamo tutti Africani" in Incognito style. In 2015, they raised the chart again with the song "Finché ce n'è," hitting the seventh place on iTunes' general Italian chart. In 2016, "Giù La Maschera," an album with 19 tracks and different sounds ranging from indie-rock to ethno-folk, came out, followed by a European tour and sharing the stage with international artists such as GORAN BREGOVIC.