In the beginning

At age twelve, Miguel Angel founded his first musical group, “Los Cusis” (Happy Guys in quechua, Incas’ ancestral language), winning the National Festival as the “Best of New Duets”. * The group stayed together for four years until Miguel Angel decided to travel to Brazil to continue his studies.

Bolivia

Back in Bolivia, he founded the group TARPUY, together with Fernando Leguizamón (second voice for Zuma Yugar), Alfredo Coca (ex Savia Andina), Hugo Romero (ex Intiwara) and Luis Chugar (Boliviamanta, currently living in France). The group’s own themes were focused on satiric humor mixed with commentaries of social connotation, winning a record contract with the label Discolandia. Tarpuy was the first Bolivian group to record a modern style musical video.

Europe

Afterwards, Miguel Angel toured Europe performing in Sweden, Germany, France, Denmark, Italy, Spain and Switzerland with the group “Los de Lavayen” and the Swedish singer and charanguist Nina Dimitry, under the direction of the extraordinary and internationally known charanguist Julio Lavayen, original member of the group “Los Kjarkas”. * One of the “Los de Lavayen” most important performances was at the worldwide known “Cochabamba International Fair” in Cochabamba, Bolivia. * Miguel Angel was also a participating musician with the “Ballet Nacional de Cochabamba” which won the Gold Medal at the “Worldwide Folklore Festival” in Dijon, France, under the direction of Professor Mario Leyes. 165 countries participated at that festival. * He co-founded, together with Gonzalo Hermosa, a composer and director of the group “Los Kjarkas”, Dexter Perez, director of the group “Amaru” and Hugo Romero, the “Artist in Folklore Association” (ARAS-Folclore) in Cochabamba, Bolivia.

United States

Miguel Angel Jaldin has made Los Angeles, California his home. In 1991, taking the responsibility to broadcast the Bolivian and Andean music in the US by performing concerts and presentations in festivals, colleges, clubs, theaters and resorts in California, Nevada, Texas, Colorado, Oregon, Utah, Arizona, Illinois and Florida among other states. Inka Kings have also participated in radio and television programs and in feature films. * Inka Kings is considered the outmost representative group in the United States that combines Andean music (Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador) with Caribbean/Tropical, Flamenco, Classic and Melodic rhythms, interpreted with Andean instruments: “zamponias” (pan flute), «quenas» (recorder), «charango» (ukelele-like – small guitar), «bombos» (tom-tom), etc. and contemporaneous ones (guitar, bass, drum set), creating a new and fascinating fusion of music, rhythms and styles.