OUR STORY

Jerome Kaluta, the band's lead singer, born and raised in Athens - Greece with a Congo heritage, is a unique artist! Both performer, songwriter and actor he combines his Afro-European music influences, with the genres of funk, soul, reggae & disco music, and merges them to his music production and performance, the infamous Urban Soul Experience. 

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He has appeared in music halls and clubs, throughout Greece & Cyprus also hosting memorable nights for many private and corporate events.

 

Jerome Kaluta is also an actor. He collaborated with many well known directors like Giannis Kakleas, Dimitra Papadopoulou, Fokas Evagelinos, Eleni Gasouka as as some of Greece's Top Music Conductors like Dimitris Papadimitriou, Stamatis Kraounakis and Giorgos Theofanous. He has also participated in 2 feature films, "Aigaio SOS" and "Bachelor 3" and in many musical documentaries. The

Tv Series "An imoun plousios" where he made his first tv debut aired on Ant1TV  the season 2019-20. 

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This music project, dated from 2008, gathered great likeminded  players who wanted to mix Funk, Soul, Hip-Hop, R'n'B, Reggae, Latin and Afro with Jerome's soulful original songs and updated  takes on standards, in a single show.

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This gave birth to the musical genre URBAN SOUL and gained a loyal local audience in Athens and Cyprus.

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Influenced by icons like James Brown, John Legend, Compay Segunto , Ella Fitzerald, The Blues Brothers, Bill Withers, Ray Charles and many more alongside with  Jerome's powerful and unique energy on stage the only this certain is that... YOU WILL MOVE!

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AFROGRECO MUSIC is his personal music label and his first full length album "Afrogreco" released on April 2020.