- The members of the group Bacilos are singer and guitarist Jorge Villamizar from Colombia, bassist André Lopes from Brazilia and percussionist: José Javier Freire from Puerto Rico.
- The band was formed in the mid 1990s by three students of the University of Miami and was named after the Spanish word for bacillus. Originally a quartet, the band drew influences from Cuban folk singer Silvio Rodríguez and Argentinian rock singer Fito Páez. The band eventually became a trio.
- The band announced that they would break up and completed their final tour in the United States on December 15, 2006, when they played at La Covacha, in Miami.
- Their final live show was on February 21, 2007, at the Festival Internacional de la Canción de Viña del Mar, in Chile.
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