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Muchachito is Jairo Perera Viedma, born in 1975 in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Barcelona city outskirts and a welcome city for immigrants, mostly southern Spain families at those times. At six he felt like a guitar player, performing at home Peret, Gato Pérez or Michael Jackson covers. Drawing was also a hobby. At 13 his drawings appeared in a fanzine published in Santa Coloma, El Komikaze, together with his close friend Santos de Veracruz, nowadays travelling and scenarios mate. Soon he left drawing for guitar playing. His older brother, Joni, introduced him to the rock&roll, discovering and take him to see bands like Johnny Guitar Watson, Stray Cats, The Blues Brothers, Los Del Tonos or Jonathan Richman. It was a matter of time until he formed a band. So he played with some groups born in the quarter before he created Trimelón de Naranjus in 1993, with which he played in cities all around Spain and Europe. At the end of 2000 Trimelón officially broke up. After those eight years, Jairo felt quite disappointed with the music scene and went to start from the scratch. He started to play at pubs and so the “rumboxing" was born: rumba plus swing at top speed in his particular way, in crowded dens where hardly place to perform was found and where he ended up injured. From there, the “boxing”. In 2003 Jairo started to play in quartet format, with Lere at the bass, Héctor Bellino at half drums and Josué at the trumpet. Incidentally, in a jam session nine hours long (!) he met Tito Carlos. The alliance of Tito and Josué, jazz and studio musicians, along with the trio Lere, Héctor and Jairo, street musicians, ran perfectly and Muchachito Bombo Infierno became established. April 2004 was a turning point, the day they filled the Sala Apolo with a keen and devoted audience. From then on, the Bombo’s flame spreads out. At the beginning of 2005 they published Vamos que nos vamos, an album that amazed both the media and the public. Every concert made their fame increase, along with the band. Live at stage appeared Gigoleto Brass band in full. Josué as conductor and David “el Niño”, Martín García, Oscar Bas and also Alberto Pérez, all of them reinforced like no one the swing of the band. Jairo calls up also his friend from childhood (and youth), Santos de Veracruz, who was already working in the concert posters design and the record graphic art, and asked him to make a painting while performing. This macro family goes together throughout Spain for two years and the success allows them shift to self-management. The fruit of this roving and playing was the meeting and the connection with kindred souls, and deep friendship was only one step ahead. Muchachito Bombo Infierno, Los Delinqüentes, Kiko Veneno and Tomasito met up on stage and, with it, the crazy idea of doing something all together. Between June and July 2006 they met up many times (partying) in Jerez de la Frontera and almost spontaneously aroused the legendary G-5 recording, Tucaratupapi. But the machine doesn’t stop. In 2007 they released Visto lo visto, the second part of a “four records” trilogy. Just when the sessions with their 13 songs were done, Jairo went to suffer a throat operation. Bad times for somebody who is not at ease quiet and with his mouth shut up. But good sense got back and when his suffering voice took his place frenzy concerts got back too. In just a few years Jairo had shifted from playing in bars that allowed him to live off music, to building up a structure formed by about twenty people, to the self management and to the total independence, though to much more work. In 2009 Jairo sent the band on holiday and he allowed himself a sabbatical year (theoretically). Just stopping by, took a pallet turning it into an instrument, percussion under his feet, and started up a short solo show tour, “longing for feeling audience closer”, returning to the same format with which he previously used to go over the country to play in en several bars. That same year, he started to produce the rough cut of what will be the first solo album of his companion and friend from Trimelón, Miguel Escolá, alias Melón Maguilaz. In 2010 he produced his third album, Idas y vueltas, a stillness made work where the first record freshness reappeared, with instantly composed themes that immediately became classical. The recording was made in his studio, La Cueva, and mixed by Joe Dworniak in the United Kingdom. There was also a change in the band: Manel (ex Trimelón) replaced Héctor Bellino. Again the sold out notice was hanged at the door of Razzmatazz hall in the premiere concert of the new record. The day before, more than thousand friends were invited to a rehearsal concert with a three hours session in full performance. Again, he started up a tour of concerts for all over the country, most of them with sold out tickets. But Jairo is suffering of creative incontinence and found a new performing format, “Sólo Muchachito”: one man band, playing guitar, bass drum, drum and thousands of gadgets and devices, with his wholehearted mate Santos de Veracruz, “the paintbrush musician”, contributing with draws and painting and singing also in some song. With this show he visited Argentina for the first time in November 2010, enjoying a three hours concert at the Niceto Club in Buenos Aires. They also visited New York and Austin, Texas. 2011 was a year full of concerts with the band, especially in Spain, and visits to Italy, France, Portugal and the United Kingdom. “Idas y vueltas” tour ended on October 22th 2011, with a concert for more than 6,000 people in the Forum of Barcelona, who during 3 hours and 37 minutes enjoyed Muchachito Bombo Infierno and the surprise appearance of a lot of his best friends: Albert Pla, Bebe, El Chipi de La Canalla, Josele Sangüesa (from Caníbala), Pepe Begines (from Los Chanclas), Los Delinqüentes, Estopa, Joan Garriga, Kiko Veneno, la Excepción, Maguilaz, Tomasito... and an unforgettable end of the party. Jairo focus his attention on Melón Maguilaz’s album. Throughout this work, the old companions from Trimelón reappeared: Danilillo, Donato Nosferatu and Manel Cabello, who together with Germán Díaz (Che), Coque Alejo and Serafín Escolá, Miguel’s brother, formed a band in order to carry out the project. Unfortunately, in the middle of this process, in January 2012, Miguel passed away. After a while, and not yet recovered, Jairo gathered his courage and together with La Banda del Melón, (the name adopted by the band) decided to record an album. The recording of Un puñaíto de canciones ends by the end of the year and the album was launched in Santa Coloma on September 2013 in a tribute concert. Earlier in 2013, Muchachito, Albert Pla, El Canijo de Jerez, El Lichis and Tomasito, started to work in a very crazy and fresh adventure, that will take them to carry out a summer tour: La Pandilla Voladora. With a staging that feels straight out from a comic book, they played the most popular pieces of each one of them. The tour was headed “Del deporte también se sale”, and they recorded a single and a video clip of the theme song. In the middle of 2013 and in parallel with his activity in La Pandilla, Muchachito joined his mate Diego “el Ratón”, from Los Delinqüentes, and accompanied by their friend Santos de Veracruz, they started a tour in trio format that took them to play all over Spain and Italy, and to visit Brazil for the first time. The explosive sum of Jairo’s and Diego’s guitars, jazzed up with the colors of Santos de Veracruz, gave shape to the new design of Muchachito, who presented himself like “Muchachito y sus compadres”, an energetic live show filled with rumba-rock and swing, his typical personal touch and his usual connection with the audience.