In this musical edition we pay tribute to two who departed in April, the first Nobel Colombian author Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez ( Aracataca, March 6, 1927 – Mexico City, April 17, 20142 ), better known as Gabriel García Márquez, who was a writer, novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, editor and journalist.
Gabo ‘s life is said that his grandparents were two well-marked individual characters and the literary journey of the future Nobel: Colonel Nicolas Marquez, a veteran of the War of a Thousand Days, was telling the little Gabriel countless stories of his youth during the civil wars of the nineteenth century, leading to the circus and film, and was his umbilical cord with history and reality. Doña Tranquilina Iguarán his nearsighted grandmother, spent forever telling tales and family legends, while organizing the lives of the members of the house according to the messages received in dreams: it was the source of the magical, superstitious and supernatural view of reality. Among her aunts who scored more was Francisca, who wove her own shroud to end her life.
“Cien años de soledad”, the book that changed his life and that of a generation that thought he saw in it a hot destination radiography and miseries of Latin America devastated by military dictatorships. That novel, which was translated into 40 languages and had more than 30 million copies sold, was the consecrated Gabo and with which he won the Rómulo Gallegos ( Venezuela , 1969) Award, an honorary doctorate from the University Columbia (New York, 1971), the Legion of Honor (France, 1981) and the Nobel Prize for Literature (1982).
Another big influential person departed that day, with salsa music and mourning after the death of José Luis Feliciano Vega; (Ponce, July 3, 1935 – San Juan, April 17, 2014). A Puerto Rican singer and composer, one of the interpreters of Latin music highlights during the second half of the twentieth century. He cultivated the most diverse genres and styles, from tropical rhythms of son and bolero and guaracha to the romantic songs.
Cheo Feliciano was born into a modest family of emigrants; he began his musical career barely finishing high school. He enrolled in the joint Ciro Rimac ‘s Review, Marianaxi Luis Cruz and Kako y su Trabuco, plus occasionally collaborated with the orchestra of Tito Rodríguez .
After a long period away from the stage, he reappeared in 1971 at the invitation of the Fania All Stars to record the legendary concert that brought together the leading salsa artists of the time, including Ray Barretto, Pete Conde Rodriguez, Yomo Toro, Bobby Valentin, Hector Lavoe and Willie Colon. With the Anacaona (1972 ) theme, composed by Curet Alonso, he showed his particular way of interpreting salsa, differently but at the same time close to the most genuine Caribbean rhythms such as son, guaguancó, merengue and guaracha.
He recorded 15 albums with the Fania label in 1983 before he founded his own record label, Car Records. In 1984 he was honored by several of the artists with whom he shared the stage as Joe Cuba and Rubeen Blades in a concert tribute to Cheo Feliciano. Cheo Feliciano was one of the guest stars of the prestigious Carnival of Tenerife, in the editions of 1982, 1983 and 1985. Returning in 1992 to the peninsula to act with other Puerto Rican artists under the Universal Exposition in Seville.
And for the second time we travel to Brazil to learn how cumbia has been adapted to different music formats, and we will hand off to Losanoff Marcus, our guest selector. He is a Brazilian journalist and DJ, based in Rio de Janeiro. He produces and presents the CHANGE from web radios River in Cocoa Radio (Quito / Ecuador) and Graviola (Florianópolis / Brazil) program. Marcus has been playing in Latin parties in Rio de Janeiro since 2012 and made the DJ set of The Map of All festival in Porto Alegre since 2011.
The musical journey planned for tonight is full of Brazilian bands and artists from various periods, styles and different regions reinterpreting cumbia their own way, mixing the Caribbean rhythms with elements (and influences) of music of indigenous origin and traditional African and such in Brazil, as carimbó the guitarrada and also the tecnobrega, hip-hop and electronic music.
Abril 26 – 2014 ➳ Pa’ tus oídos… cumbia, salsa y más ➳ by Tropicaneando Con Paola on Mixcloud