Bomba Estereo's Simón Mejía Taps A Symphony Of Nature Sounds

Simón Mejía and his band, Bomba Estereo, love to give their fans cause to party with their music. But after years of nonstop touring, as well as becoming a father, Mejía felt he needed a break. So he set out to reconnect with nature in his home country, Colombia.

"Everyone that has been born here in this country has to have a very deep relation with nature," Mejía says. "We have part of the Amazon jungle, we have three branches of the Andes mountain range. We have a huge desert in the north. We have the two seas, the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans. We have the snow and we have the Caribbean Sea. So it's really strong, and it's really dense."