Helado Tropical at YBG Festival

Opening Set from Camilo y los Cruzers

The son of Ecuadoran immigrants, Roberto Carlos Lange is a producer and singer-songwriter who has created an expansive, intoxicating body of music as Helado Negro. Known for crafting compassionate, atmospheric, and experimental pop music, he joins forces with Reyna Tropical, a decade-long project led by Fabi Reyna, the Mexican-born, Texas-raised activist, and guitarist who also founded She Shreds Magazine - the world's first and only print publication dedicated to women guitarists and bassists. Reyna Tropical expands on their highly personal blend of Afro-Indigenous drum beats, Reyna’s gauzy guitar riffs and environmental samples.

The two artists whose works orbit similar questions around language, identity and music, are finally landing in the same room with the debut of their collaborative album Helado Tropical. Their YBG Festival performance comes at the heels of their album release and promises to be an experience that is ambient and rhythmic, intimate and expansive, unified by movement.