Estrellas del Caribe
Las Estrellas del Caribe is a pioneering group of a musical genre that originated in the Colombian Caribbean in the late 1970s, known as "Terapia Criolla”. Leonel Torres, its founder and current leader, along with Rosalio Salgado, Laureano Tejedor, and other prominent musicians from San Basilio de Palenque, created a unique sound and style that fuses the ancestral music of Palenque, in its own Palenquero language, with a touch Soukous, Highlife, Afro Beat and Mbquanga.
They have a career that spans four decades of activity and creativity. In the mid-1980s, they recorded four tracks for Felito Records, a legendary label in Barranquilla, vinyl records that are now highly sought after by collectors worldwide, containing major hits such as "El yoyó," "Sambingo," and "Kunchuzo." In 2015, they released "Champeta Criolla de San Basilio de Palenque,”. In 2023, they held their first international concert in Berlin, at the "Haus der Kulturen der Welt”, and in 2024 they were invited to Banlieues Bleues Festival in Paris.
In 2025 they will be presenting via Polen Records, their new album "La Terapia del Palenque”, a record with nine original songs that refreshes the band's sound and positions them in the global music industry.