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Their music, in the Bahire style (which they coined), draws from bachata, hip-hop, reggae, latin and R&B influences, and is sung in Spanish.

In 2006, they released the album, Bahire which is distributed by SOPREF (LOCAL Distribution).

The band formed in 2003 include four members; Salvador "Sol" Valdez, Jose "Chiro" Mata, Alexis "El Gordo" Grullon and Gilbert "Giby" Capellan. Salvador "Sol" Valdez is a Music video director and a musician part of the latin Hip hop and Reggae formation Criollo (band. These extremely talented musicians also have other artistic talents such as producing/directing music videos, engineering their own songs in the studio and musically and artistically directing albums for other artists, notably Sans Pression, and worked with artists from the Americas, Africa and Europe, like BLESS, SAT (band) and Guru-Gangstarr. Bubbles is a Swedish Girl group, also known as BLESS. They are mostly popular in Sweden although one of their They have also been members of now defunct bands such as Zona-X, Ultimo Capitulo/Last Chapter and Black Sunz.

They performed at many world music festivals including Festival des Rythmes du Monde, been showcased on televised shows such as The Roof (TV), Belle et Bum and Teleritmo and opened for musicians such as Fat Joe, Tego Calderon, Elvis Crespo, N'Klabe, Aguakate, DJ IOP, Jose Alberto "El Canario" and IAM (band). Joseph Cartagena, better known by his Stage name Fat Joe, is an American Rapper of Puerto Rican and Cuban descent and Tegui Calderón Rosario (born February 2 1972) is a Puerto Rican Rapper. Elvis Crespo (born July 30, 1971 in New York City, US) is a Grammy Award and Latin Grammy Winner Puerto Rican - N'Klabe is a Puerto Rican Salsa group formed in 2003 by Héctor Torres Félix Javier Torres and Ricardo Porrata Grupo Aguakate was a prominent Dominican merengue group from 2003 to 2006 José Alberto (born in December 22, 1958 in Villa Consuelo district Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic, as José Alberto José Alberto (born in December 22, 1958 in Villa Consuelo district Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic, as José Alberto IAM is a French hip hop band from Marseille, created in 1989 and composed of Akhenaton (Philippe Fragione Shurik'n (Geoffroy Mussard

Discography

• Bahire (2006)

Music Videos

• Calle
• Son Criollo
• Lo Que Quisiera

External links

• Criollo Official Website
• Calle music video
• Son Criollo music video
• Lo Que Quisiera music video
• Cri..Cri.. live music performance video