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Criollo
Criollo
Origin	Montreal, Quebec, Dominican Republic
Years active	2003– present
Members	Salvador "Sol" Valdez; Jose "Chiro" Mata; Alexis "El Gordo Grullon; Gilbert "Giby" Capellan

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Criollo is a Montreal-based latin, hiphop band.

Their music, in the Bahire style (which they coined), draws from bachata, hip-hop, reggae, latin and R&B influences, and is sung in Spanish.

In 2006, they released the album, Bahire which is distributed by SOPREF (LOCAL Distribution).

The band formed in 2003 include four members; Salvador "Sol" Valdez, Jose "Chiro" Mata, Alexis "El Gordo" Grullon and Gilbert "Giby" Capellan. These extremely talented musicians also have other artistic talents such as producing/directing music videos, engineering their own songs in the studio and musically and artistically directing albums for other artists, notably Sans Pression, BLESS, SAT (band) and Guru-Gangstarr. They have also been members of now defunct bands such as Zona-X, Ultimo Capitula/Last Chapter and Black Sunz.

The performed at many world music festivals including Festival des Rythmes du Monde, been showcased on televised shows such as The Roof (TV), Belle et Bum and Teleritmo and opened for musicians such as Fat Joe, Tego Calderon, Elvis Crespo, N'Klabe and IAM (band).

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