Archives for: December 2009
12/29/09
A familiar sight
To follow up on the coffee songs from this post, I will now search my vast Cuban music collection: Round and round...voila!
Our Boricua neighbors' most famous band is the wonderful El Gran Combo. Since Puerto Rico's founding in 1493, they've been putting out world-class Caribbean music. Their Salsa is exceptionally level-headed, with neither the vulgarity that mars today's Reggaeton nor the exaggerated sentimentality of most modern Salsa.
The message in "Azuquita Pa'l Cafe" is one I endorse: God created women to lighten men's coffee. God's gift, indeed. And, such a variety! All bring something to the table (figure of speech, ladies).
It's the podcast.
Rocking that hair clip, one of the girls El Gran Combo might have come across on the beaches of Puerto Rico.
By nguirado ( 
), 01:15:49 pm, 778 words
PermalinkCategories: Pre-1959 Cuban Music, Post-1959 Cuban Music, Classical, Five Paragraph essay, Contains video, Cumbia, Salsa, Other Caribean :: 2 comments »
), 01:15:49 pm, 778 words PermalinkCategories: Pre-1959 Cuban Music, Post-1959 Cuban Music, Classical, Five Paragraph essay, Contains video, Cumbia, Salsa, Other Caribean :: 2 comments »
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