The breakthrough moment for one of the fastest-growing bands in Latin America came thanks to an unlikely instrument: a stolen banjo.
Morat met up for a recording session in Bogotá, Colombia, in 2014, when its four members were still college students, childhood friends playing school functions and weeknights at bars. Casting around the room for inspiration, guitarist Juan Pablo Villamil picked up an instrument that he didn’t exactly know how to play.