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La historia detrás de "Cariñito".

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Una noche de 1979 Rodolfo Aicardi llegó feliz a los estudios de grabación de Discos Fuentes y le dijo a Pedro Muriel: “Tengo el éxito para este año. Lo escuché en Ecuador y vamos a grabarlo”. En un casete estaba la interpretación de una orquesta peruana, “Los hijos del sol”. Escucharon las dos estrofas que tiene la canción: “Lloro por quererte / Por amarte y por desearte/ Lloro por quererte/ Por amarte y por desearte /Ay cariño ay mi vida. Nunca pero nunca/ Me abandones cariñito/ Nunca pero nunca/ Me abandones cariñito”. Eso era todo. Nada más decía la letra, pero tenía sentimiento. De inmediato Pedro Muriel –el grabador de más de 300 grandes éxitos de Discos Fuentes—llamó al equipo de Los Hispanos. El maestro Luis Carlos Montoya, experimentado arreglista para los temas tropicales se encargó de los arreglos. Ya había dado resultado con “Boquita de Caramelo” que había servido de resurgimiento para Rodolfo y ahora tendrían otro gran éxito. Lo presagiaban. Luis Carlos Monto...
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Border crossings - The imaginary lines of Lila Downs

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WORDS THAT HURT: Downs's new album documents the war on the Mexican-American border. BY JOSH KUN Susan Sontag began her recent acceptance speech for the Jerusalem Prize, which is awarded annually to a writer who examines the relationship between freedom and individuality, by talking about words. She spoke of how words are never just words, especially words that are big and over-arching and general. These words, she said, can come to “resemble rooms or tunnels. They can expand or cave in.” Because they mean so much, they can end up meaning so little. She gave as an example “peace,” a word that can mean either victory or defeat depending on who employs it and who it is employed against. It is of course no coincidence that she offered her comments in the Middle East, at yet another moment of crisis in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Such moments force us to re-evaluate how the world becomes narrative, how society is transformed by the language that pretends to represent it...
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Border Review by World Village

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Lila Downs - Border / Narada World It's only a year since Downs issued her last, remarkable album. But she obviously has a lot to say, and her third release focuses on the Mexican border and the migrant workers. Musically it's her most adventurous outing to date, experimenting with form and feel. And like all experiments, not everything works. In fact, where she harks back to the jazziness of her debut she seems weakest. It's when she's taking chances, as on the hip-hop inflected "Sale Sobrando," that things really take off, while the acerbic "Smoke" and an odd, bust mostly compelling medley of "Pastures Of Plenty/This Land Is Your Land/Land" not only fits in thematically, but pushes a couple of sonic envelopes too. Downs's voice continues to grow, both physically and as an artist. And the fact that she's willing to risk so much so often is all to her lasting credit. FUENTE
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