Making Movies
Next up at Lakefront Live, we're excited to present the Latin GRAMMY-nominated band Making Movies. This Kansas City-based Afro-Latino group specializes in a high-energy fusion of psychedelic rock, mambo, cumbia, and rumba. Founded by Enrique Chi—a Panamanian songwriter, musician, filmmaker, and cultural producer—the Latin Grammy-nominated band serves as the primary platform for Chi’s creative mission.
Armed with electric guitars and a Mejorana, a folcloric guitar native to Panamá, the band interweaves styles as divergent as cumbia and blues, salsa, soul, and rock'n'roll––all boiled down into their own original sound. Over the course of their career, the quartet has turned heads as a Tiny Desk newcomer (with "A La Deriva"), a voice for immigrant rights (with "I Am Another You" which reached #3 on Billboard's Latin Pop Album chart), and as a co-writer alongside salsa icon Rubén Blades with "No Te Calles,” the first single from Blades Latin Grammy nominated album.