The Venezuelan project has gathered many artists, such as Nacho, Grupo Niche, Ilegales and Bacilos.
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Leandro Moran
Almost a decade ago, Alejandro “Neg” Barrera and Daniel “Chompa” Bracho — two musician friends from Venezuela — launched Free Cover, a live music project that has reeled in artists such as Bacilos, Nacho, Eddy Herrera, among others, and today boasts more than one million subscribers on its main platform, YouTube.
“As consumers, we felt there wasn’t any material that was well-recorded in terms of both video and audio,” Barrera, a guitarist who spearheads the audio component at Free Cover, tells Billboard. “We couldn’t find that kind of content of seeing the artist live on YouTube, and the television format wasn’t all that entertaining. We really started to feel that gap, especially with artists from Venezuela.”
