Born in Montreal, and raised in Toronto, Bogota, London, and Tampa…Andrew has always had a passion for music, history, and tinkering.
The driving force behind the music is the band’s founder and leader, Andrew Yeomanson a/k/a DJ Le Spam. This electronic descarga is a reflection of the musicians and their cultures, training, and musical influences. As time has passed the songs have evolved, recordings have been captured, and the sound took on a different form which is a distinct blend of Latin, funk, and electronic music. The band describes it as an electronic descarga…a jam session if you will…because in the beginning it was completely improvisational. This is where the band has shed the most and forged what many have called a new Miami sound. They held a weekly residency at the legendary Little Havana club called Hoy Como Ayer every Thursday for 15 years which attracted every from Good Morning America to the NY Times, a variety of celebrity appearances, and numerous musical special guests sitting in. Two decades later this band has a core group of musicians that have been performing an average of 150 shows per year, across the US and some very special trips to Europe, Canada, South America and South Africa. The early days included hilarious spoken word records, mixed with a variety of instruments, and the lovely scent of Spam frying live on stage as a special snack to share with his non-vegan guests. What began as DJ gigs with some added instruments and special fx between tours as a guitar player, DJ Le Spam will be the first to say he never anticipated this evolution of the band. Spam Allstars have been at it for 20+ years. This genre results in a sound unique to this group, lighting a new and exciting flame” - Miami New Times "electronic descarga - a progressive genre encompassing musical intelligence and delicacy of truly diverse artists. “a good old latin jam, a “descarga’, with the same spirit of Cuba where descarga originated.” to hear the rhythmic creations of the Spam Allstars, a group that has played the club most Thursday nights since 2001.The result is a dynamic wall of sound that gets the audience up and dancing between the seats."
And the band members are just as diverse as the music they groove to.” “The Spam Allstars are generating a buzz.for their rhythmic mixtures of electronica, Latin, funk, hip-hop and dub. "Yeomanson’s unpretentious nature and incredible musical daringness coupled with.talented musicians he brought together have made the Spam Allstars one of Miami’s signature sounds as they successfully imbedded their original funkified groove into the cultural identity of a whole generation of Miamians." - Miami Herald "…an authentic Miami sound is being forged by.
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