Tag Archives: music
Mexican culture: song Cucurrucucu Paloma Posted by Adir on Jun 13, 2010
The song Cucurrucucú Paloma was written by Tomás Méndez and first sung by Lola Beltrán. It tells the story of a man whose lover died and is devastated by her absence. He’s so hopeless that he only cries and drinks and the only thing that calms him down is when this little dove (la paloma)…
Mercedes Sosa Posted by Adir on May 13, 2010
This year the world lost one of the greatest singers and composers: Mercedes Sosa. Sosa was born in Tucumán, Argentina, in 1935 and at 15 won a radio singing competition and recorded her first album, La Voz de la Zafra. She was known as “the voice of the voiceless ones” and recorded 40 albums. Sosa…
Evita, el musical Posted by Adir on Mar 29, 2010
El musical Evita, con música de Andrew Lloyd Weber y letra de Tim Rice fue todo un éxito en Broadway y debutó en 1978. La canción ‘Don’t Cry for me Argentina’ has a version in Spanish, No Llores por Mí Argentina, and it is sung by many artists until today. Here’s a video of Spanish…
Christina Aguilera en español Posted by Adir on Mar 22, 2010
¡Hola, mi gente! ¿Cómo les va todo? A todos nos gusta aprender con música, ¿verdad? La cantante Christina Aguilera tiene madre estadounidense y padre ecuatoriano y en su álbum del 2000, Mi Reflejo, Aguilera le rinde homenaje a sus orígenes y quedó en primer lugar en la lista Billboard de álbumes latinos. Aquí les traigo…
¡Carnavales! Posted by Magda on Mar 17, 2010
This last month has been a busy one, not only for the celebration of St. Valentine’s day all over the world, or the beginning of the Chinese New Year, this year in honor to the tiger, but also for the celebration of the Carnival: most of us know about the parades in Brazil, and the…
Paraguayan singer Perla Posted by Adir on Jan 26, 2010
I’ve already written a bit about Perla some time ago and in this post I’m going to tell you guys a very interesting experience. Know when you dream of meeting your idol for so many years then one day, boom! you finally do it! That’s what happened to me. I’ve always been a Perla’s fan…
Pedro Navaja Posted by Adir on Jul 20, 2009
Remember that song, Mack the Knife, the 1958 classic performed by Bobby Darin? Well, Panamanian singer/songwriter Rubén Blades wrote one of his greatest hits, Pedro Navaja, based on Mack the Knife. It talks about a neighborhood thug who appears to die during a robbery (his song “Sorpresas” continues the story). Here’s some vocabulary so you…