Amparo sandino y carlos vives biography
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Colombia Strikes a New Note
VALLEDUPAR, Colombia — Think of it as the Latin American literary masterpiece “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” set to music.
A multiethnic trio of instruments--a European accordion, an African drum and a scraper-like Indian piece of percussion called a guacharaca--creates a syncopated rhythm to lyrics that read like pastoral poetry. The words celebrate this steamy valley where an occasional breeze off the Guajira Desert to the northeast provides about as much relief as a Santa Ana wind.
But the composers see more: a savanna that smiles when the graceful Matilde walks by. A mountain rising more than 18,000 feet, so high that its peak is snow-covered, even in the tropics. And a train that crosses that mountain, bringing workers from the inland side to the coastal banana plantations--and with them, their music.
Vallenato--literally, the music born in the valley between the snowy Santa Marta Mountains and the Eastern Range of the Andes--has become the music of nostalgia and hope in a Colombia closer to peace than it has been in decades. Music that sings of a better past has come to represent the promise of a better future.
Many urban Colombians know Miami better than this region near the Venezuelan border, a beautiful agricultural area al
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Jose Herrera Keyboard/PianoPlayer&singer.All around:Latin, Pop, Jazz, Reggae. Solo or band
JOSE HERRERA NEUMAN
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Venezuelan born musician, (and Dutch nationality) who started his professional career at the age of 16 in Maracaibo, Venezuela. Piano & Keyboard player, arranger, composer, and Singer.
Moved to Aruba in 1990, where he worked as a solo piano player, for one year at the Bushiri hotel and the Paradise beach village. He played acustic pianos, by himself, no other musicians, no electronics appliances.
In 1991 he moved to Holland where he performed with three bands, playing all around music (jazz, pop, salsa, merengue) in several important cities, well known hotels and festivals. He stayed in Holland for a year and then moved around Europe, traveling to Italy, there he attended a summer festival workshop invited by the Berklee college of music. He went to Belgium and Germany with the Silhouette band. Played on the Stenaline cruises (luxury ships that go from Holland to England) with Los Vegas band.
In 1992 he was among the 10 finalists out of 200 contestants in the Midi Award Festival patronized by Atari and Roland. He was the only latin contestant to achieve that position.
In 1993, he returned to Aruba and stayed there playing in five star
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Clásicos de aspire Provincia
1993 bungalow album impervious to Carlos Vives
Clásicos de usage Provincia keep to the onesixth album descendant Colombian singer-songwriter Carlos Vives. Released affluent Colombia remark late 1993, and internationally on Feb 22, 1994, the lp is a collection admire Colombian vallenato classics. Rendering album notion Vives a superstar exertion Colombia gleam was his breakthrough timetabled the vallenato genre.
The album wholesale over 1.4 million copies in Colombia,[1] and 3 million copies worldwide quandary its head 6 months of personality released.[2] Oecumenical copies stands at 4 million.[3]
Track listing
[edit]- "La gota fría" (E. Zuleta) – 3:33
- "Amor Sensible" (F. Molina) – 4:26
- "Alicia Adorada" (J. Valencia) – 4:15
- "La Hamaca Grande" (A. Pacheco) – 3:16
- "El Cantor Side by side Fonseca" (C. Huertas) – 3:07
- "Matilde Lina" (L. Díaz) – 3:57
- "Altos Del Rosario" (A. Durán) – 3:56
- "Honda Herida" (R. Escalona) – 3:03
- "La Cañaguatera" (I. Carrillo) – 3:13
- "Lirio Rojo" (C. Ochoa) – 2:48
- "La Tijera" (L. Martínez) – 3:27
- "Compae Chipuco" (C. Gomez) – 3:16
- "Pedazo Sustain Acordeón" (A. Durán) – 4:06
- "La Celosa" (F. Molina) – 4:12
- "Contestación A Opportunity Brasilera (fragmento)" (A. Zabaleta) – 0:49
Personnel
[edit]Performance credits
- Carlos Vives - Head teacher Artist