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Some Salsa for New Years: Cuban, Puerto Rican and Columbian music
12/31/08
Happy New Years, compadres y amigas! I wish you a very healthy and prosperous 2009. I have a few songs for New Years.
Grupo con Sabor from Colombia (Columbia) provides us with three songs:
The first one lumps in the singer's mother-in-law with his other 2007 blessings: a goat, a black burro (donkey or ass), and a white llegua, a female horse- heady company. I will withhold further comment. It has a Cumbia beat.
El Ano Viejo is above.
Now for a Merengue romp. Like in English-speaking countries, men and women kiss when the clock strikes twelve.
Ano Nuevo:
Another cumbia, La Vispera del Ano Nuevo. Vispera is "eve."
Super Banda features a beautiful female chorus and a rather emotional male lead pining for his mother.
Cinco pa las Doce:
Follow up:
Navidad Colombiana - Para Cantar Y Bailar La Novena De Aguinaldos
Here's some songs from our Boricua brothers and sisters:
Great effort from the female lead here.
Felicitacion:
A rather laid back singer with an excited guitarist.
De Ano Nuevo el Dia:
And the great mambo singer Vicentico Valdez with the Sonora Matancera. A Cuban Guaracha version of El Ano Viejo. Remember, gratitude is the key to happiness.
El Ano Viejo:
Latin Classics, Vol. 1 by Heinz Hofmann
Finally, we have Miguel Cuni. He sang with Arsenio Rodriguez before Arsenio went to New York. His star rose in Cuba after the revolution. He stayed in Cuba and the Communist government considered him a hero. The song is called Lechon and Bachata.
SABOR by CELESTE MENDOZA Y MIGULITO CUNI
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