Txarango

Txarango was a Catalan band formed in Barcelona in 2010. Their members are musicians from the Catalan counties of Ripollès, Osona and Garrotxa. Nowadays, the band is composed of Alguer Miquel (voice), Marcel Lázara, a.k.a. Tito (voice, guitar), Sergi Carbonell, a.k.a. Hipi (keyboard), Joaquim Canals (drums), Àlex Pujols (bass guitar), Pau Puig (percussion), Ivan López (saxophone) and Jordi Barnola (trumpet). They propose a musical fusion, taking Reggae as the mainstay, influenced by Dubstep, Latin music or Pop, and mixing Jamaican music, Rock and Latin sonorities. The band's early albums build upon a circus clown motif.

== History == Txarango's seed was planted in 2006. It started in the Gothic Quarter, Barcelona, in the student flat of the singer Alguer Miquel, the guitarist Marcel Lázara a.k.a. Tito and the keyboardist Sergi Carbonell a.k.a. Hipi. Near Plaça George Orwell, also known colloquially as Tripi square, they started giving impromptu concerts on the streets with musicians from all around the world. It was there where different experiences and sounds were shared. Marcel "Tito", started playing a charango, a small stringed instrument from the central region of the Andes, with Alguer and Sergi "Hipi". All three of them agreed to capture that festive spirit of the street music and to take it to the stages as a new project named after Marcel's instrument: Txarangö, with a diaeresis over the "o".