Biography
Las Palabras is a fitting name for the latest project of multi-instrumentalist & songwriter Rafael Cohen – sung entirely in his first language, Spanish. A child of Guatemalan Jews, Cohen lived in Mexico City until he was ten when his family moved to Washington, D.C., and he got involved in the city’s hardcore and punk scenes. Over the years, his bands toured intensively and released records on classic independent labels like Dischord and Touch and Go, with Cohen eventually settling into his current role as songwriter and touring bassist with !!! (aka Chk Chk Chk), a group whose popularity as a global touring act recalls his naturally post-nationalistic outlook.
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.