Having released their first three albums on independent labels in Colombia, in 2000 La Pestilencia signed with a major label, Mercury Records , as Díaz felt it was important to spread the group’s message beyond Colombia to other countries with Spanish-speaking populations. The group relocated to Los Angeles where they…
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Díaz moved back to Medellín and decided to continue La Pestilencia and recruited new members. The new line-up of La Pestilencia recorded two albums during the 1990s, Las nuevas aventuras de La Pestilencia (1993) and La Amarillista (1997). During this period Díaz was also a member of a second group,…
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The origins of La Pestilencia can be traced back to 1986, when Héctor Buitrago was a DJ on a Bogotá radio station, playing the punk records that a relative had brought him from the UK. Dilson Díaz, a fan of the show from Medellín, contacted Buitrago to meet up in…
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