Formed in 2012 in La Plata, Argentina, Cachitas Now! is a cumbia band that combines folklore tradition, tango and traditional cumbia, transforming them into contemporary sound. Basing on this idea, musicians with very different trajectories were united, each one contributing their own personal and musical experience.
The band is a part of the growing scene of cumbia bands, mostly made up of musicians coming from other genres, who some years ago decided to start a dialogue with the cumbia tradition of Latin America and began to revert the traditional tropical repertoire composing and expressing themselves in the style of cumbia.
Cachitas Now! compose their own songs. Their lyrics refer to social problems, to empowered women, to sexual dissidence, to everyday love stories in a context of freedom and a search of healthy relations.
Their message is based on the certainty that there are other forms of linking, that the hetero norm has to be overthrown, along with macho approach and the idea of romantic love - all that without leaving aside the joy and dance that are always a priority in the presentations.
The band has a huge experience of participating in various scenarios, parties, festivals, carnivals and events, which took place in different public spaces, as a commitment to struggles and organizations that claim the right of all the people to decide, with music as a source of professional development.
Of particular note are the following events: Plaza del Congreso for voting of Legal, Safe and Free Abortion and Absolution for Hugui; Casa Brandon, Matienzo Cultural Center in CABA; Marches of LGTBIQ Pride, festivals for the Transtravesti workforce; National Women’s Meeting N ° 34 (La Plata); Plaza Moreno against the closure of cultural centers; villas of CABA with the gender spaces of La Garganta Poderosa newspaper; shows in women's prisons in La Plata.
After releasing their first album Cumbia Desgenerada, the band performed their new compositions recorded during 2018, which were included in their second album Chonga, with the participation of such artists as BIFE, Sudor Marika, Tita Print and Cumbia Nena.
The band is currently producing a series of parties in Buenos Aires called FestiChonga Mimosa, in order to concentrate transfeminist artists and exhibitors in one space of artistic exchange.
