Integrating Latin Jazz guitar with some hip hop flavour.

Kin Balam Jaguar - Siembra Luz

The Prophetic political discourse of martyr and Saint; San Romero. 
Killed during El Salvadors 22 year Civil War by Death Squads for remaining faithful to the peoples causes for liberation, freedom and a country free from war, death, political persecution, and state oppression. 

Kin Balam - Homenaje a San Romero/Hommage to Saint Romero

Visiones Afro Cubanas. 
Creada con la intencion de captar la esencia de esta cultura tan rica en ritmo, sabor, e historia de suffrimiento y resistencia.

Afro Cuban Visions. 
Created with the intention of capturing the essence of this powerfully rich culture of rhythm, flavour, and history of struggle and resistance.

Kin Balam - Afro Cuban Visions

Latin Indigenous Flamenco Revolutionary Spiritual Hip Hop

Kin Balam - Hijo Del Sol Y Maiz

In Raw Freestyle Form I Came Up With; Walking Through The Sky.

Kin Balam - Walking Through The Sky

Inti Runs Free Has Many Meanings. 
Family, Positive Spiritual Road Reclamation, Indigenous Way Of Seeing, etc...  
To each however they feel and reach understanding.

Inti is the ancient Incan sun god. He is revered as the national patron of the Inca state. Although most consider Inti the sun god, he is more appropriately viewed as a cluster of solar aspects, since the Inca divided his identity according to the stages of the sun.[1] Worshiped as a patron deity of the Inca Empire,[2] he is of unknown mythological origin. The most common story says that he is the son of Viracocha, the god of civilization.

Kin Balam - Inti Runs Free

A preview of Que Cante hip hop song which will be on the upcoming album Xinatli - Kin Balam

Que Cante (Alternate Take, No Rap) Preview to Album Track

Freestyle Improvisation Dedicated To My Community's Intergenerational Struggles Of War, Poverty, Colonialism, And Self Destruction.

Generaciones

Rise Above The Madness

Opening Ceremony

Mi Camino

Balam Santos a.k.a. Kin Balam is from the Indigenous lands of Cuxkatan, Nekepio, El Salvador. He was born in the heart of a people’s revolution, raised in the Northern lands of Turtle Island. Burying his heart in pain and urban warfare as a youth, with a soul hungry for meaning and connection, Kin Balam learned years later to die to a lifestyle that has shattered the foundation of his community and country with blood and fire. Kin in Lenca Poton and Balam in Maya, translates to “The path of the jaguar,” is an artist who, in having the courage to live based off what the elders call the ‘Nahual’ or destiny, has also come to originate a new style of music. 
 
Flamenco, Latin American, Indigenous Mesoamerican, Afro Latin Jazz, and Hip Hop are all the elements that makeup the powerful fabric of this new yet ancient rooted musical style. Fusing the hardcore rap delivery usually associated to gangster rap, Kin Balam has decided to utilize that same vein of art to feed the streets medicine, hope, healing, and r/evolutionary guidance. The Mesoamerican Indigenous instruments integrated into bis musical landscape are of Pre-Colombian colonial origin, and therefore bear with them the unique identity of Central American Indigenous culture and spirituality. The Afro Latin rhythms deepen the meaning with the connection and bridging of African culture and struggles in the earth and flesh of America’s terrible and savage colonial history. The virtuoso Flamenco guitar is the sword that ties all of these elements as one diverse family. All of it together speaks as one heart, one voice, in one language - the language of our humanity.
 
Kin Balam studied under the renowned Flamenco guitar master Jeronimo Maya in Madrid, Spain at the age of 22. He has been producing Hip Hop music since the age of 11, playing guitar since the age of 8, and has focused on Afro Cuban percussion since the age of 2 years. Among his peers in any genre of music at the professional level, Kin Balam is held with deep respect and appreciation for not only his level of musicianship, but also the originality and quality of his music and soul.

KIN BALAM

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