Amazon Music introduces “Rompe” in Colombia, an initiative focused on new artists

In Colombia, Amazon Music introduces “Rompe”, a new program focused on supporting emerging artists of all musical genres and promoting the work of the promises of young people from countries who are just starting out in the music world.

To select the first artist, Amazon Music and Shock come together in this initiative that consists of several phases, from an open call for recording, to live performances, where the qualified jury will look for the first artist “Rumpy” Colombia and 14 artists “breaking the focus.”

El programa ‘Rompe’ Colombia es una versión local de la iniciativa global ‘Rompe’ de Amazon Music, el cual fue creado con la intención de impulsar el talento colombiano y brindarles aún más oportunidades de apoyo dentro del servicio la musicalia de Amazon Music generally.

“Supporting artists so early in their careers is very important to us at Amazon Music, and we are proud to launch this project in Colombia,” said Federico Pedersen, Latin America Director of Amazon Music. “Through this experience and everything going on around it, national talents will be able to be a part of the musical environment, connect with more fans, and reach another level of their career.”

Rombi in Colombia will have four stages of discovery. The start that begins now, as Amazon Music and Shock will begin the active search for these talents through a nationwide open call from June 10 to 22, 2022. Here national artists will be able to submit their songs to the site the web A panel of judges from Amazon Music, Shock, and the music industry select the first 100 entrants.

Artists or bands under five years of age in a musical profession who have had at least one song of their own, of at least one minute and thirty seconds in length, may distribute on digital platforms in the past year.

In the second stage, the selectees will compete in a digital vote, open to the public, in which the 15 most voted and who will move on to the semi-finals, the third stage of the live tests in the cities of Medellin, Cali and Bogota.

In the same period, the artist with the best show in each city will be selected to travel to the capital for the Grand Final, where he will perform his last live show with fans and a qualified jury that will select the artist ‘Rumby’ Colombia. 2022. Live auditions will be broadcast on the AmazonMusicCo Twitch channel.