Bonnevilla

Bonnevilla

Bonnevilla performing in Black Lives Matter Event, 2015
Background information
Origin Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Years active 2007–present
Website www.bonnevilla.mx
Members Khoriantor, Enuar

Bonnevilla is a Chilean-Mexican hip hop duo from Salt Lake City, Utah, United States that consists of Khoriantor and Enuar. The duo is has achieved widespread critical acclaim for their unrelenting social commentary, blended with the sonic aesthetics of underground late 90s hip-hop. With six years in the game, numerous awards, and three full-length albums under their belt.[1]

Biography

2001–2006 – The beginning

Bonnevilla, as many young people in the 1990s this duo had his first contacts with rap, amid the rise of genre itself in Latin America, listening to groups like Tiro de Gracia, Cypress Hill, Control Machete, Wu-Tang Clan, Notorious BIG, among some. These two young immigrants met in a high school called "Bonneville" in 2001 (inspiration for the name of the group), in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. Sharing their taste in music and social ideologies a great friendship and brotherhood began. In 2004 they created a rap group called ibertad Condicional, alongside friend and artist Drago Eufony. What started as a hobby gradually grew into something more serious. Recording in a home studio and without any musical experience they created several unreleased tracks, which provided them with more experience for a bigger project.

2007–2010 – Sin Piedad

In 2007, Bonnevilla was born after some musical and ideological differences with Drago Eufony. The first demo was titled Sin Piedad. With 25 tracks, this album took 3–4 years of production, and reflected the growth process from adolescents to adults, with direct and crude lyrics and a versatility of subjects in its tracks, like "Daños Colaterales" covering the subject of the Iraq War, or "Y Pensar" a song that speaks about people with physical disabilities. The album was distributed independently, and provided them the "Best Local Talent" award in 2010 by local website "LNPU".[2]

2011–2014 – Mixtape Vol. 1

The next project was titled Mixtape Vol. 1, with 12 track, this album showed more sophisticated lyrics, flows and a notorious improvement in the recording quality. Bonnevilla demonstrated steady growth musically gaining respect among listeners and urban music bands from the local scene, this album was distributed for free digitally. After the success of the first album the Mixtape Vol. 1 gave the duo similar accomplishments that year. Bonnevilla participated in several local appearances and competitions, crowning them with the "Batalla Urbana" award, a local competition of urban style bands, and a review with acclaimed Hip Hop Magazine Above Average Hip Hop.[1]

2015–2016 – The return and project Ad Finem

After a musical break, in 2015 Enuar and Khoriantor began a new project with recognized and awarded producers such as multi-instrumentalist Gas-Lab[3] from Argentina, and collaborations with renowned artists from the scene as Akil Ammar[4] and Bocafloja [5]from Mexico. The third album was titled Ad Finem("Until the end" in Latin). The album has been distributed independently on Spotify, and for free on their official website. Music videos were also produced independently by the duo, such as the song "Siempre" featuring Akil Ammar,[6] and "Hope" featuring Bocafloja.[2]

Discography

Collaborations

Videography

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Hip-Hop Is Worldwide: Bonnevilla Keeps It Real On Their Latest Record". Above Average Hip-Hop.
  2. 1 2 "Bonnevilla ft. Akil Ammar - "Siempre"". www.thisis50.com.
  3. ↑ "Descargá lo nuevo de Gas-Lab".
  4. ↑ Hernández, Alexandro (28 April 2016). "Akil Ammar, referente iberoamericano del hip hop llega a Puebla". Publimetro.
  5. ↑ "Global Beats, Decolonized Minds". CultureStrike.
  6. ↑ "Bonnevilla – Siempre ft. Akil Ammar". es.yahstar.com. Retrieved 11 October 2016.
  7. ↑ "Akil Ammar". Retrieved 11 October 2016 – via Facebook.

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