Debajito: A call to dance, a call to action

Changemaker: Chico band was influenced by New Song Movement
by Leslie Layton | Posted August 19, 2025
The Chico band Debajito playing at a recent Chico show. Photo courtesy of Ken Pordes.

Changemaker is an occasional ChicoSol series that profiles local people or groups contributing diversity or humanitarian work to the community.

In the second verse of “Frontera,” the lead single on the newly-released album “Entremundos,” a fisherman makes the harrowing journey from his village in Sonora, Mexico, to the United States seeking work.

The fisherman’s story is the kind of story that the composers – members of the Chico band Debajito – know well. As part of the track “Frontera,” they hope it will break through the anti-immigrant ruckus and repression that has continued to darken life in this country. read more