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Description: San Diego’s alegrías have a perfect meet cute origin story, finding each other via UC San Diego’s Musicians’ Club. The on-campus club, according to alegrías’ guitarist Luke Hoeg is, “organized by a group of students who are wanting to start bands and stuff. Basically, a place to get people together for listening parties, and forming connections with each other so that we can all jam out.” The four students immediately clicked (Hoeg, and the band’s de-facto leader, singer, and cellist Azalea Segura-Mora already knew each other from high school). Ada Ngozi (bass), and Daniel Hernandez (drums) round out the group for a lived-in chemistry that belies the relatively brief amount of time they’ve been together. The result is rich, loose layers of indie rock-meets-R&B rhythms above which lilting jazz vocals and string melodies take hold. “Alegrías'' is Spanish for multiple joys. So [the music we make under that name] is really energetic and happy.” Segura-Mora explains. Enjoy this session? Support KCRW's mission to share music with the world. Our non-profit radio station in Santa Monica, California has supported musicians and DJs for more than 40 years. Help us continue our music programming by donating whatever you can: kcrw.com/give kcrw.com Music | Culture | News | NPR