La Palabra

ORQUESTA LA PALABRA’s ROMANTIC SALSA HITS THE CONGA ROOM STAGE ON MAY 14, 2011

First time in ten years the original singers Jorge Luis Balmaseda & Angelo Pagan will be taking the stage with ‘Orquesta La Palabra’!

Los Angeles. – (May 9 , 2011).The city of Los Angeles, the entertainment capital of the world, has nurtured numerous musical acts of diverse musical genres throughout the decades amongst them Orquesta La Palabra, led by Cuban born bandleader ‘La Palabra’ (the word) who made Los Angeles his home and achieved international recognition for his brand of Salsa: Salsa Romantica.

This is a very exciting time for Orquesta La Palabra who in addition to embarking on a South American tour in the upcoming months, for the first time in ten years the original singers Jorge Luis Balmaseda and Angelo Pagan will be performing on May 14, 2011 at 9:30 p.m. at the hub of Latin music in LA, The Conga Room, located at 800 West Olympic Boulevard, Los Angeles, 90015. Tickets are on sale now at www.congaroom.com.

‘La Palabra’ is a composer, pianist and vocalist whose music hit the charts internationally first with his signature arrangement of "Lady" where he sang lead vocals and then with "El Sabroso Son" which featured legend and virtuoso Tito Puente. In 2006, La Palabra's song "El Tun Tun de Tu Corazon" hit number one on the Colombian charts and remained there for eight consecutive weeks.

In 2010, Orquesta La Palabra embarked on a European tour performing in Amsterdam, Germany, Luxembourg, France, Kosovo, Turkey, Brussels, Spain, Portugal and the Island of Terceira. This year 2011 started off with a big bang when "El Tun Tun de Tu Corazon" reached number one on the Peruvian music charts.


About the Conga Room
The world famous Conga Room is a nightclub and concert venue located at L.A. LIVE, the downtown entertainment district across from Staples Center and the Nokia Theatre. Since opening in 2008, The Conga Room has been the hub for industry after-parties and high-profile events such as the ESPYS, People’s Choice Awards, American Music Awards and numerous NBA parties. Our stage has received historic performance including the Gypsy Kings, Alejandro Fernandez, Black Eyed Peas, Prince and a weekly R & B industry night with GRAMMY winner Jamie Foxx called Foxxhole Live. The Conga Room is co-owned by will.i.am, Jimmy Smits, Jennifer Lopez, Paul Rodriguez, Sheila E., Amaury Nolasco and NBA players Baron Davis and Trevor Ariza.
- The Conga Room

"[His] music is an exquisite taste of Cuban folklore combined with other Latin rhythms that make La Palabra one of the most prominent Latin bands of this new millenium." - Estrenos Magazine

"Always re-inventing, changing and creating his own path, La Palabra producer/pianist/songwriter/arranger/composer/singer/bandleader) has established himself as one of Latin music industry's leaders since the late '80s while many have stood still." - Latin Beat Magazine

"...the blends are effortless and organic, with enough edge to push them beyond the merely routine...the opening 'El Temblor' - fast-clipped, aggressive, straight-ahead salsa - is a dancefloor smash-in-waiting..." - Billboard Magazine

"Hats off to La Palabra...he's on his own with a magnificent salsa orchestra and one of the year's top tropical music releases, Breakthrough... La Palabra is firmly rooted in the salsa dura sound of the seventies - and with its mambo-tempo rhythm, percussion breaks and horn solos, it recalls the era perfectly" - Hispanic Magazine

"La Palabra takes the premier sounds of Cuba, New York and Detroit and blends them together on Breakthrough, creating a flowing masterpiece with something for lovers of every groove from traditional cha cha, to hip-hop, Motown and pop." - Los Angeles Wave Newspaper

"Simply stated, there are some tracks on this CD that are unmatched
for the dance club. If you know someone who never gets out of his chair, cue up "Ahe Ahe" and watch him get up and dance his arse off. It's a slammin' salsa track that is hard to resist. The salsa La Palabra produces is about as hard as they come..."
- Descarga.com

"It's been almost four years since La Palabra's last release, On Fire,
and what a difference a few years make!... Palabra is here to stay and keep proving that the west coast is a force to be reckoned with." - SalsaPower.com

"With all the Buzz that has been going on with Salsa and "Salsa Romantica", it is remarkable that very few people know that the trend that revolutionized salsa which is called "Salsa Romantica" started here in the city of Los Angeles by a local musician, composer, and arranger named 'La Palabra'."
- Latin Beat Magazine

"During his association with Orquesta Versailles in the mid-eighties, Palabra created what was to become the first “Salsa Romantica” tune, (a tropical dance tendency of the period that took North American pop hits and rearranged them to a more sensual tropical beat, keeping the lyrics in English). He wrote an arrangement for the then popular Lionel Richie composition “Lady,” set to a sexy tropical beat which blew the lid off the Latin charts from coast to coast." - Latin Beat Magazine

"Ahora, para la alegría de los que extrañábamos su sonido y calidad, esta gran agrupación basada en Los Angeles, California, regresa con otra explosiva producción, una que tiene algo para todos los gustos." - Vista USA