L to R: Joselo Rangel, Quique Rangel, Rubén Albarrán, Meme del Real

Café Tacuba (often spelled Café Tacvba) is a musical group from Naucalpan, Mexico. They were founded in 1989, and since then have had the same musical lineup: Download high resolution version (1200x1258, 242 KB)Mexican eclectic band Café Tacvba. ... Download high resolution version (1200x1258, 242 KB)Mexican eclectic band Café Tacvba. ... Naucalpan de Juárez (Naucalpan) is a municipality in the Mexican state of México. ... 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

• Rubén Isaac Albarrán Ortega, aka "Juan", "Pinche Juan" ("Fucking Juan"), "Cosme", "Anónimo" (Anonymous), "Nrü" (pronounced "dshyoo", [dʃju] in IPA), "Amparo Tonto Medardo In Lak’ech" (or "At Medardo ILK"), "G3", "Gallo Gasss", "Élfego Buendía", and "Sizu Yantra". (vocals)
• Emmanuel "Meme" del Real Díaz (keyboards, acoustic guitar, piano, programming, vocals, melodion)
• Jose Alfredo "Joselo" Rangel Arroyo aka "Oso"(electric guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals)
• Enrique 'Quique' Rangel Arroyo (bass, electric upright bass, vocals)

Mexican folk music player Alejandro Flores is considered the 5th tacubo. He has played the violin in almost every Café Tacuba's concert since 1994. Also, since the Cuatro Caminos world tour, Luis "El Children" Ledezma plays the drums in every concert but is not considered an official band member. The International Phonetic Alphabet is a phonetic alphabet used by linguists to accurately and uniquely represent each of the wide variety of sounds (phones or phonemes) the human vocal apparatus can produce. ... In music a singer or vocalist is a type of musician who sings, i. ... A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played with a musical keyboard. ... An acoustic guitar is a modern form of guitar descended from the Classical guitar, but generally strung with steel strings for a brighter, louder sound. ... This article is about the modern musical instrument. ... Programming is a form of music production and performance involving using electronic devices, often computers, to create music. ... In music a singer or vocalist is a type of musician who sings, i. ... The melodion is a wind instrument which is played like a keyboard instrument. ... An electric guitar is a type of guitar with a solid or semi-solid body that utilizes electromagnetic pickups to convert the vibration of the steel-cored strings into electrical current. ... An acoustic guitar is a modern form of guitar descended from the Classical guitar, but generally strung with steel strings for a brighter, louder sound. ... In music a singer or vocalist is a type of musician who sings, i. ... Bass or Basses can refer to many different things. ... The electric upright bass (mostly called EUB) is an electrically amplified version of the double bass. ... In music a singer or vocalist is a type of musician who sings, i. ... Cuatro Caminos central part of Havana city where the major agricultural market operated prior to the Cuban Revolution of 1959. ...

Discography

They have released five albums, which are, in order: Café Tacuba (1992), Re (1994), Avalancha de Éxitos ("Avalanche of Hits", 1996), Revés/Yo Soy (actually a two-album vocal/instrumental collection, winner of a Latin Grammy for Best Rock Album of 1999), and Cuatro Caminos ("Four Paths", 2003). Additionally, they have released an EP called Vale Callampa (a tribute to now defunct chilean band Los Tres, 2002), a best-of album/DVD entitled Tiempo Transcurrido (2001), and Un Viaje 2005, a four-hour triple CD live performance from their 15th anniversary concert (also released as a DVD and box-set). Café Tacuba was the self-titled debut album by Café Tacuba, released in 1992. ... 1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Re was Café Tacubas second and perhaps most important album - and arguably the most important album in the history of Mexicos music scene. ... 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Avalancha de Éxitos (Avalanche of Hits) was Café Tacubas third album. ... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Revés/Yo Soy (Backwards/I Am - note that yo soy is a palindrome) is the fourth album by Café Tacuba. ... Grammy Award statuette The Grammy Awards, presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in the recording industry, is one of four major music awards shows held annually in the United States (the Billboard Music Awards, the American Music... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday of the Common Era, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Cuatro Caminos central part of Havana city where the major agricultural market operated prior to the Cuban Revolution of 1959. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... EP can stand for: European Parliament. ... Los Tres was one of the most famous and important bands in the Chilean nineties culture. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... DVD is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for storing data, including movies with high video and sound quality. ... 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A box set refers to the publishing of several albums (or other musical material) of an artist packaged in, aptly enough, a box. ...

Every studio album released by the band so far has been produced by Gustavo Santaolalla except Cuatro Caminos which was produced by Santaloalla, Dave Fridmann (Flaming Lips, Weezer) and Andrew Weiss (Ween). Cuatro Caminos was featured on several Top Albums of 2003 charts, including Rolling Stone, New York Times, Blender Magazine and won the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Latin Rock/Alternative Album. Cuatro Caminos central part of Havana city where the major agricultural market operated prior to the Cuban Revolution of 1959. ... Dave Fridmann is a musician and record producer. ... The Flaming Lips is an American rock band with psychedelic influences, formed in 1983 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma by Mark Coyne, Wayne Coyne and Michael Ivins. ... The album cover of Make Believe Weezer is an American rock and roll band. ... Andrew Weiss is a bass guitarist and producer. ... Ween is a name of an alternative music group. ... Cuatro Caminos central part of Havana city where the major agricultural market operated prior to the Cuban Revolution of 1959. ... This article is about the music magazine. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... Blender is an American magazine that bills itself as the ultimate guide to music and more. ... Grammy Award statuette The Grammy Awards, presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in the recording industry, is one of four major music awards shows held annually in the United States (the Billboard Music Awards, the American Music...

Genre

Their music is extremely eclectic and therefore impossible to label as Rock en Español as it is commonly done by international (and sometimes even Mexican) press. Indeed, it has been said that no two of their songs fit the same genre. Their music has been heavily influenced by Mexico's Native American population and folk music traditions, but also by American music and other bands on the Mexico City scene. Perhaps the most distinctive feature of their music is Albarrán's gratingly nasal voice, which, combined with his impressive lung capacity (as demonstrated on "La Ingrata", a parody of norteño music), makes for a very distinctive sound, which can be somewhat offputting to the uninitiated. They sing entirely in Spanish but have a significant Anglophone following regardless. Rock en Español is the latest generation of Spanish language rock and roll. ... A genre is any of the traditional divisions of art forms from a single field of activity into various kinds according to criteria particular to that form. ... Native Americans (also Indians, Aboriginal Peoples, American Indians, First Nations, Alaskan Natives, Amerindians, or Indigenous Peoples of America) are the indigenous inhabitants of The Americas prior to the European colonization, and their modern descendants. ... Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and of the people. ... Norteño ( Spanish: northern) is a style of traditional Mexican music that originated in rural northern Mexico in the early 20th century, a form of conjunto based largely on corridos and polka. ...

The song "Chilanga Banda" has a hip-hop beat under a stream of Mexico City slang, "María" is a romantic 'bolero' balad, "El Fin de la Infancia" a brass-heavy 'banda ranchera' sound, "Desperté" has a tango-driven melody that could have been stolen from a soap opera and "El borrego" is a heavy-metal experiment. Hip hop is a cultural movement that began among urban African American and Latino youth in New York City and has since spread around the world. ... A brass instrument is a musical instrument whose tone is produced by vibration of the lips as a player blows into a tubular resonator. ... The first TIME cover devoted to soap operas: Dated January 12, 1976, Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes of Days of Our Lives are featured with the headline Soap Operas: Sex and suffering in the afternoon. A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction, usually broadcast on television...

Vocalist Rubén Albarran in his "Gallo Gasss" outfit doing the 'Déjate Caer' coreography

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Other Works

• They have contributed to movie soundtracks like Amores Perros, Y Tu Mamá También, Piedras Verdes and Vivir Mata as well as tribute albums to "Jose Jose" and "Los Tigres del Norte". Café Tacuba also collaborated with different artists such as Plastilina Mosh, Kronos Quartet, David Byrne, Celso Piña, Inspektor, and Ofelia Medina. They have played live with Beck, Incubus and Los Tres.

• Meme is known in the mexican electronica scene as "Dj Angustias". He is part of the Noiselab Collective and will release a solo album in late 2005. He also produced songs for many mexican artists like Julieta Venegas, Natalia Lafourcade, Ely Guerra, Liquits, among others.
• Joselo released his first solo album entitled Oso in 2001 and is planing to release a second one in 2005 produced by ex-Los Tres Álvaro Henriquez.
• Rubén played in an alternative instrumental band called Villa Jardín between 2000-2001.

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Trivia

• The name of the band was taken from a traditional coffee shop located downtown Mexico City, which had its heyday in the 1940's and 1950's, and was representative of the Pachuco scene from the time, something the band would certainly acknowledge as an influence; The Cafè Tacuba is still in operation.
• The song "Eo" from Cuatro Caminos featured on the FIFA 2004 Playstation game.
• Their original name was "Alicia ya no vive aquí" (a tribute to Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore)
• In the early years people would scream "Pinche Juan!" ("Fucking Juan!") to Rubén because that's the name of one of the band's first underground hits, so he kept the name for the release of the first album. Two years later he got bored and changed it to "Cosme" (a disused, old mexcian name) for the release of "Re". Since then, he has changed his name for every album and world tour.
• Formerly graphic design students, Rubén, Joselo and Quique make the art of every studio album.

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External links

• Café Tacuba's official site (http://www.cafetacuba.com.mx/) (parts of which are available in English)
• A long article in Hispanic Online (http://www.hispaniconline.com/a&e/tacuba/) (in English)