Biography
La Mano Ajena is a Chilean band that gathers world sounds from a contemporary standpoint, adding to its eclectic music a deep sense of theater, since most of the members are related to the theatrical scene. Founded in 2002, the group’s first references were Jazz manouche, Klezmer, Balkan and Gypsy music, rhythms to which later they would incorporate Latin influences like Cumbia, Mambo, Cha-cha-cha, Tango and Rumba; creating a cosmopolitan sonority that is unique in Chile.

From its beginning, the band was a precursor in spreading the Gypsy, Balkan and Klezmer rhythms in Chilean stages; and today, after almost a decade, they are one of the most important bands from the so called “new culture of musical carnival” that has taken place in Chile in the last years.

La Mano Ajena has played in many stages abroad and inside of Chile, in countries as Denmark, Spain, Serbia and Argentina. In Santiago, they have shared stage with bands as Gogol Bordello and Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestra.

In January, 2009, they became the first and only Latin American band to participate in the Küstendorf Film and Music Festival in Serbia, created by the world famous filmmaker Emir Kusturica.