Los Reyes del KO
Spanische Blues Power
We started to play together in Santiago de Compostela, our home town in 1993. We are soul brothers since we were kids. Meeting when we were trying to work on each other's sister. We was in the same school, but we weren't good at all, specially in music, where we were always the last row of the chorus... But we realized that we had the same music feeling... that was totally the opposite of our teacher.
After founding and playing in different bands in Galicia like the Red Blues Band or the Blue Rags we got known in Galicia as "the crazy punk kids playing the blues"...
Marcos moved to Madrid in 1999 where he joined one of the most well known bands in Spain: The Tonky Blues Band. After two years Adrian joined the band, first as a drummer and later as a guitar player. Until 2002 we stayed in the band touring and backing up artists like Mick Taylor (Rolling Stones) or Buddy Miles (Jimi Hendrix) with whom we did some studio work too.
After that incredible experience for us, we were ready to form our own band - Los Reyes del KO. We chose that name because we used to play in boxing events. In a few months we recorded our first album "CollvsCosta" with Javier Vacas and Antonio Alvarez from LaVacazul, earning the "blues album of the year award" in Spain.
We played almost every blues festival in Spain, sharing stage with legends as Buddy Guy, Solomon Burke, The Faboulus Thunderbirds, John Mayall etc. We was having the time of our lives!
After doing more festivals and clubs, recording the CD Marcos Coll & Adrian Costa "Home Made Blues" and earning the number 1 spot as party animals everywhere we went, we decided to move to Germany in 2004.
Without any idea of what was going to happen, we got lucky and with the help of all the blues community and specially Chris Rannenberg and Michael Maass, we settled in Berlin, starting to perform in festivals and clubs all over europe as well as backing up other known musicians in Germany like Aron burton, The Stimulators, Guitar Crusher, Tom Blacksmith, Peter Krausse, Abi Wallenstein, Eb Davis etc, as well as jamming with friends like Sugar Blue, Tino Gonzales, Angela Brown etc. Now more than ever we were freacking out!
In march 2006 we recorded our new CD "Hot Tin Roof" produced by Chris Rannemberg and co-produced by Keith Dunn and Willie Jackson with a deluxe band that includes long time Fats Domino sax player Herb Hardesty, Sax Gordon etc,etc as well as other surprises.
In our blues that goes from traditional to modern electric you can find lots of funky beats, soul and even spanish roots like our version of "La Paloma", flavoured with a high X-rated component.
Some people called us the spanish Buddy Guy and Junior Wells. We think of ourselves more like the Galician Cheech & Chong.
In our show we just try to make everybody dance and forget their shit for at least a couple hours, and that for once, grannies, mothers and daughters agree in one thing...
Surprisingly we got prizes, like the Berlin Blues & Jazz Award and our names are in the music school books in Galicia. But that's nothing compared to the great friends we have met all over the world, and the chance to see such beatyfull places That's the best that music gives us, besides music itself, and makes our effort worth.
Quotes
"They seem they are born toghether." (Sugar Blue)
"They got fire in their ass!" (Guitar Crusher)
Besetzung
Marcos Coll (harmonica), Adrian Costa (vocals & guitar), Kevin du Vernay (bass), Thomas Feldmann (baritone sax), Christian Rannenberg (piano), Andre Werkmeister (drums & percussion)
Possible Special Guests: Guitar Crusher (vocals), Keith Dunn (harmonica), Sax Gordon Beadle (tenor sax), Herb Hardesty (tenor sax)
Aktuelles Album
"Hot Tin Roof"
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