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La Casa En El Aire
"La Casa en el Aire" (translation "the house in the air") is a Colombian vallenato song written and performed by Rafael Escalona. In its list of the 50 best Colombian songs of all time, '' El Tiempo'', Colombia's most widely circulated newspaper, ranked the versions of the song by Bovea y sus Vallenatos at No. 11. Viva Music Colombia rated the song No. 9 on its list of the 100 most important Colombian songs of all time. The song has been recorded by multiple artists, including Bovea y Sus Vallenatos, Carlos Vives, Lola Flores, Roberto Torres, Piper Pimienta y Su Orquesta, Trio La Rosa, Ricardo Torres, Rosario, Gabriel Romero y Su Seleccion Colombia, Don Medardo Y Sus Players, Los Cañaguateros & Aníbal Velásquez, Catalino Y Su Conjunto, Las Emes, Carmiña Gallo, and Jaime Llano González Jaime Llano González (1932–2017), was a Colombian organist and composer. He regularly appeared on Colombian television and radio throughout his career, and his skill on the organ earned h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vallenato
Vallenato () is a popular folk music genre from Colombia. It primarily comes from its Caribbean region. ''Vallenato'' literally means "born in the valley". The valley influencing this name is located between the ''Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta'' and the '' Serranía de Perijá'' in north-east Colombia. The name also applies to the people from the city where this genre originated: Valledupar (from the place named ''Valle de Upar'' – "Valley of Upar"). In 2006, vallenato and cumbia were added as a category in the Latin Grammy Awards. Colombia's traditional vallenato music is Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding, according to UNESCO. Origins This form of music originated from farmers who, keeping a tradition of Spanish minstrels (''juglares'' in Spanish), used to travel through the region with their cattle in search of pastures or to sell them in cattle fairs. Because they traveled from town to town and the region lacked rapid communications, these farm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafael Escalona
Rafael Calixto Escalona Martinez (May 26, 1926 – May 13, 2009) was a Colombian composer and troubadour. He was known for being one of the most prominent vallenato music composers and troubadours of the genre and for being the co-founder of the Vallenato Legend Festival, along with Consuelo Araújo and Alfonso López Michelsen. He was also a long-time friend of Gabriel García Márquez, who included him in his stories and once told him that his own masterpiece novel, ''One Hundred Years of Solitude'', was just a 350-page Vallenato. Escalona's songs compile the history and stories of the Magdalena Department of the past 20th century. Escalona was an atypical music composer: he does not play any instruments or sing so his songs can in some ways be difficult to analyze. His songs constitute a legacy of a past generation of Colombians in his memory, a pictorial collage, full of grace, that narrates stories, customs and gossips from his region. He also left a legacy of his loves and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vallenato
Vallenato () is a popular folk music genre from Colombia. It primarily comes from its Caribbean region. ''Vallenato'' literally means "born in the valley". The valley influencing this name is located between the ''Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta'' and the '' Serranía de Perijá'' in north-east Colombia. The name also applies to the people from the city where this genre originated: Valledupar (from the place named ''Valle de Upar'' – "Valley of Upar"). In 2006, vallenato and cumbia were added as a category in the Latin Grammy Awards. Colombia's traditional vallenato music is Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding, according to UNESCO. Origins This form of music originated from farmers who, keeping a tradition of Spanish minstrels (''juglares'' in Spanish), used to travel through the region with their cattle in search of pastures or to sell them in cattle fairs. Because they traveled from town to town and the region lacked rapid communications, these farm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Tiempo (Colombia)
''El Tiempo'' () is a nationally distributed broadsheet daily newspaper in Colombia launched on January 30, 1911. , ''El Tiempo'' had the highest circulation in Colombia with an average daily weekday of 1,137,483 readers, rising to 1,921,571 readers for the Sunday edition. From 1913 to 2007, ''El Tiempos main shareholders were members of the Santos family. Several also participated in Colombian politics: Eduardo Santos Montejo was President of Colombia from 1938 to 1942. Francisco Santos Calderón served as Vice-President (2002–2010). And Juan Manuel Santos as Defense Minister (2006–2009) during Álvaro Uribe's administration; Juan Manuel was elected president of Colombia in 2010 and served in that position until 2018. In 2007, Spanish Grupo Planeta acquired 55% of the ''Casa Editorial El Tiempo'' media group, including the newspaper and its associated TV channel Citytv Bogotá. In 2012, businessman Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo bought the shares of Planeta, the Santo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bovea Y Sus Vallenatos
Julio César Bovea Fandiño (1934–2009) was a Colombian musician and songwriter. As leader of the trio Bovea y sus Vallenatos, Bovea helped to develop and popularise the Colombian folk music genre of vallenato, particularly the compositions of Rafael Escalona. Biography Early life and education Julio Bovea was born in Santa Marta, Colombia, on either 6 or 8 September 1934. His father was Julio Bovea, a composer, , guitarist, and stringed instrument maker; his mother was Josefina Fandiño. Bovea left high school after only one year, due to the death of his father. Before beginning his career in music, Bovea worked as a barber. Music career Bovea first played guitar in the ensembles of Guillermo Buitrago and Abel Antonio Villa, among others. In August 1947 at the age of 12 he formed his own band, a trio initially called the Trío Magdalena and later renamed to Bovea y sus Vallenatos, in which he played lead guitar and sang, along with Alberto Fernández Mindiola on guacharaca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Vives
Carlos Alberto Vives Restrepo (born 7 August 1961) is a Colombians, Colombian singer, songwriter and actor. One of the List of best-selling Latin music artists, best-selling Latin music artists of all time, with over 20 million records worldwide, Vives is regarded as one of the most influential artists in the world as he has progressively helped vallenato gain popularity globally and for his interpretation of traditional music styles, such as cumbia, champeta, bambuco and porro, with Latin pop, Rock music, rock, reggaeton, dance-pop and tropical music. Through his career he was honored with two Grammy Awards and seventeen Latin Grammy Awards, being awarded with the Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year in 2024. Vives has been honored with several accolades for his songwriting and producer contribution including the Broadcast Music, Inc., BMI President’s Award, the ASCAP Foundation Richard Rodgers Award, ASCAP Founders Award, and an induction into the Billboard Latin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaime Llano González
Jaime Llano González (1932–2017), was a Colombian organist and composer. He regularly appeared on Colombian television and radio throughout his career, and his skill on the organ earned him the nickname "The Organist with the Silken Hands" (Spanish: ). Biography Early life and education Jaime Llano González was born on 5 June 1932 in Titiribí, in the Colombian department of Antioquia. His mother was Magdalena González, a piano teacher, and his father was Luis Eduardo Llano. He attended secondary school at the Pontifical Bolivarian University and studied undergraduate medicine at the University of Antioquia for two semesters. Llano's mother taught him to play tiple and piano, and introduced him to the Colombian musical styles of pasillo and bambuco. He taught himself to play the organ, an instrument for which he later became famous. Music career Llano quit his university studies and moved to Bogotá in the 1950s. There he got his first regular music gig playing weekends ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
