Cienfue

Cienfue has appeared on BBC's LatAm Beats, Spotify’s The Game Plan, Rolling Stone, CNN, People, ESPN, Remezcla, Pop Matters, Vive Latino, Rock al Parque, Nylon, NPR, UCLA Radio, MTV Latin, and MTV3 USA.

The alias of Latin American recording artist Camilo Navarro Quelquejeu, Cienfue is known for mixing Latin Roots with modern electronic elements to create a sound he describes as “Psychedelic Tropical”.
Growing up in Panama in the 1980s under military rule, Cienfue was heavily influenced by a hip new television channel that only played music videos: MTV. After closely witnessing the US invasion of Panama in 1989, curfew and isolation was a way of life. To distract from the chaos outside, he began arranging digital music on an early Macintosh computer, experimenting recording with Cassette Tapes and learning Electric Guitar.
Later on in the 2010s, Following international success on MTV, the BBC, Rolling Stone Magazine and playing numerous music festivals (including Rock Al Parque (Colombia), Vive Latino (Mexico), Quito Fest (Ecuador), Contrapedal (Uruguay)), as well opening for legendary acts the likes of <a href="spotify:artist:4ANigmoglCpG6sHgfT1hkB" data-name="Omar Rodríguez-López">Omar Rodríguez-López</a> , <a href="spotify:artist:0UWZUmn7sybxMCqrw9tGa7" data-name="Juanes">Juanes</a> , <a href="spotify:artist:09xj0S68Y1OU1vHMCZAIvz" data-name="Café Tacvba">Café Tacvba</a> , <a href="spotify:artist:3MqjsWDLhq8SyY6N3PE8yW" data-name="Aterciopelados">Aterciopelados</a> , <a href="spotify:artist:65HuWBUC1d8ty1q6J42Nfi" data-name="Cultura Profética">Cultura Profética</a> , <a href="spotify:artist:5n9bMYfz9qss2VOW89EVs2" data-name="Bomba Estéreo">Bomba Estéreo</a> , <a href="spotify:artist:3MqjsWDLhq8SyY6N3PE8yW" data-name="Aterciopelados">Aterciopelados</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:2h9yQhKyqOMex3QFMVeq7F" data-name="Meat Puppets">Meat Puppets</a> , <a href="spotify:artist:2F9pvj94b52wGKs0OqiNi2" data-name="Babasonicos">Babasonicos</a> , <a href="spotify:artist:6IdtcAwaNVAggwd6sCKgTI" data-name="Zoé">Zoé</a> , <a href="spotify:artist:3YcBF2ttyueytpXtEzn1Za" data-name="Incubus">Incubus</a> , <a href="spotify:artist:04kzQulIze9pZ7MadKI9w2" data-name="Señor Loop">Señor Loop</a> , <a href="spotify:artist:6J6yx1t3nwIDyPXk5xa7O8" data-name="Vetusta Morla">Vetusta Morla</a> and more, <a href="spotify:artist:0hPQfsafhd7umQTz29DCiT" data-name="Cienfue">Cienfue</a> has kept busy recording, growing an extensive original song catalog to over 100 tracks.