The Boomdabash will be the Italian guests of the great final concert organized in Melpignano (Lecce) during the significant event on popular culture in Europe: "La notte della Taranta" directed by Raphael Gualazzi at its twentieth edition.
The band completes the cast with international guests Gregory Porter, Suzanne Vega, Yael Deckelbaum, Pedrito Martinez, Gerry Leonard and Tim Ries. Reduced from the platinum disk, delivered to the Wind Music Award, for the hit "Portami con te" that has reached almost 16million viewing on youtube, Boomdabash, reggae formation composed of Bige Bash, Pajà, Blazon, Mr. Ketra will be called , To interpret three tracks of the repertoire of tradition.
"A definite choice in the twenty years of Concertone, the La Notte della Taranta Foundation, to talk to young people recounting the Salento tradition through the new musical languages that reach the heart of the audience every year renews. As in the 1998 this is a new beginning, a bet to widen the awareness and knowledge of the rich heritage of popular music in Salento. We wanted to enhance the Puglia's musical productions that once again communicate with the sound of the world, "says the president of the Fondazione La Notte of Taranta Massimo Manera in a statement. "The Popular Orchestra is today a well-defined band that conquers the vast audience and has been in dialogue with the South Sound System with the Apres La Classe, which together with the Boomdabashs from Salento have won the national market" Continues Massimo Manera, President of the Taranta Night Foundation.
The Boomdabash are enjoying great success and this can be considered for the band a year of gold. Their debut album dates back to the 2008. The project strikes for the freshness of style, the innovative way to look at reggae, the sought-after productions and the choice of expressing and communicating with two languages simultaneously: the Jamaican patois and the Salento dialect. All this soon consecrates these four Southern guys as one of the most solid and appreciated reality of the peninsula and, over the years, the Boomdabash are appreciated for musical ductility, attention to social and the ability to innovate and renew.
Their path is enriched by continuous successes with musical pieces that reach the peaks of the music charts that lead the Boomdabash to start a two-year journey characterized by a tour that crosses Italy from North to South with over 100 dates.
In October of 2012 the Boomdabash, along with some big Italian musicians such as Subsonica and Negrita to represent Italy at the Hewitt Festival, are chosen, a tour that touches the United States, particularly New York and Miami. This experience becomes an opportunity to export their extraordinary sound to America, in fact the song "Danger" soon goes on to spin on MTV Iggy and several Florida radio stations. Returning to Italy, Boomdabash releases the single "The Message" whose street video is shot between Manhattan and Brooklyn with Dj Double S.
The song "The Message" is the first single of the long awaited third album, "Superheroes", which enters since the first day in the Top ten of the best selling albums of iTunes Italia. "Superheroes" is a mature, complete and innovative record that with its musical nuances embraces not only reggae but also all the music, which sees the participation of many Italian guests who embellish the thirteen songs making them real musical masterpieces.
June 2014 Boomdabash presents their new single, "The Important", which sees the participation of the historic Roman group "Otto Ohm". After a year (June 2015) comes the fourth record of the band Salentina entitled "Radio Revolution", which for the moment represents the highest point in the career of this Salentino group.
Their new single "Bring Me With You" right away was a great hit that has reached nearly 16million views on youtube. The 2 June of this year came out the latest album titled "In A Day Any".