The successful Coquimbán group will be the protagonist of the fifth installment of this program, winner of the 2018 National Music Fund. This episode will be broadcast on Saturday, September 08, starting at 20:00 p.m., on Radio Universitaria 94.5 FM in La Serena and Coquimbo.

Radio Universitaria FM, station of the University of La Serena, will broadcast this week the fifth episode of its program cycle called "Our Sounds: Musical Creators of the Coquimbo Region", dedicated exclusively to the dissemination of regional authors and musicians.

This week's guests will be Tulio Guerrero and Said Abdala, founding musicians of the regional rock band Los Changos.

Started as a group that entertains university parties in Coquimbo, the Los Changos trio was originally formed with guitarist and singer Tulio Guerrero, bassist Guillermo Narváez and drummer Omar Santander, students of Environmental Civil Engineering at the ULS.

After that beginning, the band decided to take another step in music around 2004, when they began to write their own compositions. Guitarist Orlando Sánchez, who was participating in the jazz scene, joined shortly after. In this way, as a quartet, Los Changos (name obtained from the South American ethnic group of fishermen that inhabited the entire north of Chile) oriented themselves to music linked to the pre-Columbian ancestral influence and the natural environment.

The mix of roots-based music, like Los Jaivas, fused Andean, Mapuche and rock elements. Los Changos thus published the album The influence of the sea (2006), a conceptual piece focused on the relationship between the inhabitants of coastal towns and the immensity of the ocean.

From there, the group expanded its musical timbres with Said Abdala, a versatile trutruka and ethnic percussion player. In 2007, Los Changos joined the Escuelas de Rock and performed at the Rockódromo festival, which later led them to appear on the album Escuelas de rock Volumen 13 (2008) and on the Bicentenarock compilation (2009).

With a new line-up, with bassist Rodolfo Sánchez and drummer Emilio Palma, Los Changos recorded the album Espacio y tiempo (2010), the next work based on the four seasons of the annual cycle, and where the project had the collaboration of the legendary guitarist Coquimbano from Los Viking's 5, Eduardo Lalo Macuada.

According to what is stated by its members, Los Changos were born from the need of its members to express themselves through music and their roots in nature. In their lyrics, they address themes inherent to man and his interaction with the reality that surrounds him. Musically, they mix Andean-rooted folklore with rock and psychedelia.

“Our Sounds” is a project promoted by the Department of Corporate Communications of the ULS, which was the winner of the 2018 National Music Fund, Chilean Music Radio Broadcasting line.

The invitation is to tune in to this fifth episode, which will be broadcast this Saturday, September 08, starting at 20:00 p.m., through the 94.5 frequency of Radio Universitaria FM for La Serena and Coquimbo and on its online signal available at www.userena.cl.