Biography
Irlando "Maky" López, music director and coproducer, was born in 1962 in Charanbirá, a small village in the northern Pacific province of Chocó. At age 15, he moved to Cali. He became interested in the music of the Southern Pacific Lowlands, Currulao, as a dancer in Cali in an important group called Los Bogas del Pacifico, first as a dancer and later as a musician. He continued in the group at the Unversidad Libre, and in various projects such as Rio Guapi, Grupo Bahia, and the Currulao Sinfónico, which featured a folkloric marimba group alongside a symphony orchestra, directed by Hugo Candelario González. He recroded twice with Grupo Bahia, with which he performed in London, Chicago and the Lisbon World's Fair. In 2000 he formed Grupo Naidy.

Grupo Naidy
Named after a fruit endemic to the Pacific coast, to participicate in Cali's annual Petronio Alvárez Festival of the Music of the Pacific. That year, the group won the prize of Best Marimba Group in the festival and made its first recording, Tributo a los ancestros (Tribute to the Ancestors). In 2002, they recorded a second CD, Cosechando una semilla (Harvesting a Seed). In 2003, Maky conducted music workshops in New York University and took Grupo Naidy to perform at the Lincoln Center. Maky also conducted workshops at the Chicago Folk and Roots Festival in 1999.

The Musicians
Juana Maria Angula (cantadora)

Ana Hernández (cantadora)

Carlina Andrade (cantadora)

Gladys "Titi" Bazán (Cantadora)

Baudilio Cuama Rentería (marimba)

Alirio Suárez Díaz (bombo)

Isaías"Saxo" Carabalí (cununo)

Alex Cuama Valencia (bombo arrullador) (Tragically, on August 1oth, 2004, shortly after the making of this recording, Alex and Jiminson Cuama were shot and killed on a street corner after rehearsal).