Doctor Krápula is a Colombian ska punk band, made up of Mario Muñoz, David Jaramillo, Nicolás Cabrera, Sergio Acosta and Germán Martínez.

[2] The band was formed in 1998 by seven musicians in Bogotá, Colombia,[3] and in their 25-year career, they have released eight albums, including: “El Carnaval de la Patilla”, “Turn the Disco around”, “Bombea”, “Sagrado Corazón”, “Corazón Bombea Vivo”, “Viva el Planeta”, “Ama-Zonas”[4] and "Calle Caliente".

Dr. Krápula was the group creator of the Viva El Planeta Festival [es] in Bogotá in May 2012, and has been in charge of their eight editions so far.

[citation needed] They have a Gold Record in sales in Colombia for their Album « Viva El Planeta », delivered on 25 May 2013, by Star Entertainment Group, within the framework of Event 40, carried out by Los 40 Principales Colombia in the Simón Bolívar Park of the city of Bogota[5] The music of Doctor Krápula mixes the sounds of ska with reggae, rock, punk and rocksteady, adding tropical rhythms such as merengue and even salsa.

On 31 May 2016, they were awarded the Simón Bolívar Order of Democracy for their environmental activism on the recovery of the ancestral territory of the Sierra Nevada, Amazonas and Cauca.