United Flavour

As the first impulse for foundation of the multi-cultural band called United Flavour can be considered the arrival of two founder members – singer Carmen (Spain) and bass player Djei (Ivory coast) – to the Czech Republic. They were so excited by the atmosphere in Prague during their first visit here that they both decided to move to Prague in the second half of the 90´s. After a short adaptation period, both Carmen and Djei joined the Czech cultural scene and started to collaborate with local and foreign musicians. In spring 2004 they decided to found United Flavour.
The first studio recording, an eight-song demo EP, was issued in June 2005 and gained a great reception from both general public and critics. The single Revolution became a Top 10 hit in the charts on the radio channels. It was successful enough to deserve its own compilation called Revolution Project which contains remixes by various Czech and foreign artists. The long-awaited album was named UNITY and released under the SubPub Records label in June 2007. Many interesting local and foreign guests accepted the invitation to feature on the album. Amongst these were King Kalabash & Baron Black aka Big Famili from the Caribean island of Martinique, the Slovak singer Tina, rapper Henry D or latino deejay El Condorsito from Chile. A DVD called Live at Lucerna Music Bar was released on the same day as the UNITY album. CD Unity is distributed by the main music eshops – Itunes, Napster, Virgin.fr,...
Since the band was formed, United Flavour have been busily performing both in the Czech Republic and abroad. During four years they got the opportunity to open concerts to international stars such as Kelis, Gentleman, Manu Chao, WARD 21, Alborosie or Shaggy. Within the last two years' successful concerts the band played also in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Poland and Slovakia. They also contributed to the majority of the Czech festivals with their colourful performances. In December 2007 United Flavour had big club tour all over the Czech Republic. In May 2008 they got silver position in the final of International Live Award 2008 (ILA) in Vienna. ILA is an international music contest opened for bands and solo artists from six European countries, in 2008 more than 1000 bands took part in the contest. United Flavour have performed in twenty different events in the Czech Republic and also abroad (Wiesen Sunsplash – Austria, Ostroda reggae festival - Poland, Uprising festival – Slovakia and others) during the festivals season of the summer 2008.

Flavour backing band

United Flavour have been working and improving different music styles from its beginning and its musicians cooperated with various artists as well. This philosophy can be considered as the motion for setting up their own backing band, and start playing with different artists in the Czech Republic and abroad. Flavour backing band was set in 2008 and, in its still short history, managed to back up artists such as WARD 21, Big Famili (supporting Sizzla Kalonji) and Slovak singer Tina.