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Prime Ministers | |
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Miami, Florida, United States  United States Guayaquil, Ecuador  Ecuador |
| Genres | Alternative Rock, Rock |
| Years active | 2007–present |
| Labels | Space 52 |
| Members | Ernesto "E" Estrada Pedro "Perico" Argüello Jaime "Chimo" Solórzano Fabio "Shaggy" López |
| Website | primeministersband |
Prime Ministers is a Rock Band from Ecuador, formed in 2008. The band consists of Ernesto Estrada (lead vocals, guitars and piano), Pedro Argüello (bass and vocals), Chimo Solórzano (drums), and Shaggy López (guitars and vocals.)
History
Prime Ministers is an Ecuadorian rock band. They formed as a band in 2008. The band is made up of Ernesto "E" Estrada (voice, guitar, piano), Fabio "Shaggy" López (guitar), Pedro "Perico" Argüello (bass, vocals) and Jaime "Chimo" Solórzano (drums).
They released their first album Take a Ride in 2009 and were invited to perform at prominent music festivals including South By Southwest, in Austin, Texas (USA) and Rock al Parque in Bogota (Colombia).
Their singles "Smoking Monkeys" and "Under Your Spell" reached the number one in Radio and the video for "Far From Free" went to number one in MTV Latino.[1][2] They were chosen as one of the 50 Best bands of the year.
Prime Ministers' first video "Smoking Monkeys" reached the top 10 in MTV Latin America.[3][4]
In 2010 the song "Under Your Spell" was included in the program Los 100 + Pedidos, an annual program broadcast on MTV Latin America.[5]
In February 2011 they released a new video for the single "Far From Free", arriving at number one out of the top 10 most requested videos of MTV Latin America. "Far From Free" was also selected to be part of the official music of the telenovela Popland!, broadcast to all Latin America and for the US by MTV.[6][7]
In July 2011 they successfully closed the first day of the annual Rock al Parque[8][9] music festival in Bogotá, Colombia
In January 2012, the Mayor of the Metropolitan District of Quito, the Sucre National Theater and the institution Mis Bandas Nacionales de Ecuador presented Prime Ministers with two important awards: The Gold Medal and the MBN Statuette for their international performance.[10]
On March 15, 2012, the Prime Ministers performed at SXSW festival in Austin, Texas.[11]
In June of 2014 they released their second album, NOW, produced by Max Heyes. This was their first release in the United States [12]. To promote the album, Prime Ministers performed at festivals including The Great Escape (Brighton, UK) and Rock X La Vida (Mexico), [13], touring with the Chilean band La Ley throughout United States and Mexico.
The video for the first single, "Take It Back" won the Best Video of the Year Award from the institution Mis Bandas Nacionales de Ecuador.[14]
Prime Ministers released the first single "New Beginnings" from their 3rd record, Asymmetric, on January 24th, 2017. The track is described by PureVolume as having a "bouncy, rocking vibe that will make your head bob back and forth."[6] "It started as an idea about about how music began, and the first instruments that we had… our feet and hands creating rhythm," singer Ernesto Estrada says. "A little journey through this; the vocals, and then strings and percussion appeared in the history of music. I wanted to try in three-and-a-half minutes to go beginning to end exploring the creation of instruments and to end with electronics."[15]
Discography
Albums
Take A Ride (2009)
Their debut album "Take A Ride" is a compendium of 11 songs mixed and mastered by Randy Staub and George Marino. All songs were written in English.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Dead Man walking" | 2:41 |
| 2. | "Mentally Starved" | 4:16 |
| 3. | "Under Your Spell" | 3:02 |
| 4. | "Far from Free" | 3:01 |
| 5. | "Who I Am" | 3:14 |
| 6. | "Standing" | 3:18 |
| 7. | "I Have to Stop" | 2:31 |
| 8. | "Smoking Monkeys" | 3:04 |
| 9. | "Korny Love" | 3:12 |
| 10. | "I'm Sorry" | 3:50 |
| 11. | "Let Love Rule" | 3:28 |
Now (2014)
Prime Ministers' second album, "NOW," was released in June 2014 in Mexico. The first single from this 10-track album,[16] "Take It Back, was released in March 2014.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "From Me" | 2:44 |
| 2. | "Take It Back" | 2:52 |
| 3. | "Out of My Mind" | 3:01 |
| 4. | "Revolution" | 3:17 |
| 5. | "Bottomless High" | 6:56 |
| 6. | "Never Leave Again" | 5:17 |
| 7. | "Now" | 3:42 |
| 8. | "Hole In The Sky" | 3:54 |
| 9. | "Against The Wall" | 4:35 |
| 10. | "Technicolor Dreams" | 5:49 |
Singles
- "Smoking Monkeys" - January 2010
- "Under Your Spell" - March 2010
- "Far From Free" - September 24, 2010
- "Take It Back" - March 31, 2014
- "New Beginnings" - Jan 24, 2017
See also
References
- ^ [1] Revista Vistazo. Accessed Jan 31, 2017.
- ^ [2] Diario El Tiempo. Retrieved 26 June 2009.
- ^ [3] Revista Vistazo. Consultado el 13 abril de 2009.
- ^ [4] Diario El Tiempo. Retrieved 26 June 2009.
- ^ http://www.eluniverso.com/2010/01/08/1/1378/under-your-spell-compite-los-pedidos-mtv.html
- ^ http://web.archive.org/web/http://expresiones.expreso.ec/ediciones/2012/01/09/musica/prime-ministers-entre-los-50-mejores-de-mtv/
- ^ http://www.rockombia.com/notas/prime-ministers-estara-en-risaralda-convivencia-rock-2011
- ^ http://bogota.vive.in/rock-al-parque-2011/noticias/ARTICULO-WEB-NOTA_INTERIOR_VIVEIN-9779764.html
- ^ http://entretenimiento.terra.com.co/prime-ministers-de-ecuador-se-llevo-el-aplauso-de-la-noche,99795897ce8e0310VgnVCM3000009af154d0RCRD.html
- ^ http://www.ultimasnoticias.ec/noticias/7263-prime-ministers-tocara-en-texas.html
- ^ http://latinrapper.com/blogs/?p=2167
- ^ http://rockrevoltmagazine.com/interview-prime-ministers/
- ^ http://www.cronicajalisco.com/notas/2014/25969.html
- ^ http://www.elmercurio.com.ec/464654-mis-bandas-nacionales-premio-a-lo-mejor-de-la-musica-hecha-en-ecuador/
- ^ http://www.purevolume.com/news/PREMIERE-Prime-Ministers-New-Beginnings/
- ^ http://www.allmusic.com/album/now-mw0002811963
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