I have a good friend whose son attends a technical high school. Many people here never bother to learn any foreign languages and many schools don't bother teaching them anymore. Looking at Alejandro made me want to compose an opera about the same subject.Īs to the general attitude in the US about foreign language, it is pathetic. I took flamenco lessons for eight years and always fantasized about crating a flamenco ballet about Count Dracula. Since we are both big fans of vampire movies I asked "Think he would make a sexy vampire?" She answered "Hell, yeah!"
She had heard the song on a radio station being played in a store (It was a megahit at the time) and her jaw dropped when she saw him. However, I caught her out once when I showed her one of Alejandro Fernandez' music videos. When she would make the excuse about not understanding the lyrics she was being a hypocrite. I can't talk about novelas with her because she is unwilling to listen.
She came to think of Hispanics in a very negative way. Or from the north-east of Brazil, among the best dance music ever, forro: Īnd one of my favorite singers, Mercedes Sosa from Argentina: Īribeth, the friend in question lived in Washington Heights for a long time during a bad time there. The classic criollo stuff-such as Chabuca Grande- My father's girlfriend brought me some Chabuca Grande tapes when he and she girlfriend came to Poland to meet me.Īfro-Peruvian music-for example Susana Baca:įrom South America more generally, the stuff based on Andean musical traditions. (Personally I end up kind of attached to the theme songs on my favorite TNs, but the artists aren't ones I'd listen to otherwise.) So just some of the Latin genres I like: And most would never show up on a telenovela. Does "Latin music" include any genre that originates in a Spanish- or Portuguese-speaking country? If so, the possibilities are pretty close to endless.
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