The Best Concert of my life

In local festivals in the city where I was born. There is a concert that is named Super Concert. In 1996, when I was 19, I attended the concert, which was the best of my life. Because it was? Cali, the city where I was born is called, the capital of salsa, and we the children of this society of music and dance born in the late 70 `s, our blood fever jumping to hear representative songs that classical city, full of salsa music in the streets. Cocierto that counted with the participation of singers like; Gilberto Santa Rosa, Willi Colon, Ruben Blades, the Lebron Brothers, Orchestra and many more orchestras. The place was busy complement, everybody danced with everybody, as one body was dancing to the beat. The concert will start at 20 am and ended, at 9 am the next day. 

It was very exciting.

Image of one of the super concerts.

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San Basilio de Palenque

It is not a big city, or a well-known place but San Basilio de Palenque is a locality of the municipality of Mahates, in the department of Bolivar, Colombia. In San Basilio de Palenque are Africans who escaped at the time of conquest or colony and there are some traditions are still preserved the language, food, dance, and culture.

The music on drums, dances and singers is what most caught my attention. This mansard is located in the foothills of the Montes de María (hills tienne also one Canicón to rate bullerengue), 50 km from the city of Cartagena. It has a population of about 3,500 people; As a township does not have economic autonomy, or administrative.

Hya reiterate that the place was founded by escaped slaves mainly from Cartagena in the sixteenth century and released by Benkos Bioho. The word "arena" refers to the fences erected by the runaway black slaves during the colonial era, to take refuge from his pursuers.

The name of St. Basil, is an arena founded in the seventeenth century by a group of Maroons, under the command of Dominic Biohó, aka, they fled to regain their freedom. The story of the saint of the village (St. Basil), the sculpture was being transported to the town of St. Augustine of white beach, in the passage through the arena got stuck and it was impossible to remove the mud, for palenqueros was an omen and adopted the saint, as the saint of the village.

The isolation has allowed them to keep the majority of African cultural traditions in Colombia (music, medical practices, social organization and cultural rites) have developed a Creole, a mixture of Spanish and the indigenous African languages ​​(Palenquero). Because of its unique characteristics in its history, training, culture and language, Palenque has been declared by UNESCO as intangible cultural heritage. For these descriptions and learn more about my country's own cultures, it is important nobre and propose this theme tarball Colombian place.

The salsa music

this genre is a way of talking about American society center. this genre born from various rhythms fucionde, is in essence the result of several elements that spice what is now known as salsa. with African musical influences, Puerto Rican, Venezuelan, Cuban, Jamaican, Brazilian, Dominican and Colombian with other elements of Caribbean music, jazz and Latin American music, especially Afro-Cuban jazz and Brazilian jazz]. The sauce was developed by musicians of origin "Hispanic" in the Greater Caribbean and the city of New York. The sauce includes several styles like salsa dura, salsa romantica and timba.

The history of salsa, which was attended by many musicians, can be traced to some extent in the course of some major record companies. In the seventies Party Record, Recording Company Manhattan, especially Fania Records, launched to stardom a lot of "salseros" from New York, touring and concerts worldwide.

Fania was founded in March 1964 by lawyer and businessman Jerry Masucci and the Dominican flutist and bandleader Johnny Pacheco. Fania began with Larry Harlow and manufacture El Malo Willie Colon and the "Singer of the Singers" Hector Lavoe in 1967.

Fania Records gave the final gender to record and distribute the disks of most of the salsa stars of the seventies accolade. The Fania All Stars orchestra, which brought a lot of salsa musicians and singers as Ray Barretto, Willie Colon, Johnny Pacheco, Ruben Blades, Hector Lavoe, Ismael Miranda, Cheo Feliciano, Bobby Cruz, and guest artists as Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, and Eddie Palmieri.

A picture and its story

One of the most reproduced photographs that I like and it is titled "Lunch atop a Skyscraper" (lunch on top of a skyscraper). This popular photograph was taken by American photographer Charlie Clyde Ebbets. It was part of a report he made to denounce the precarious security conditions were the workers of the skyscrapers that were built in the area of the Rockefeller Center in New York in the 30s.

The image was taken on 29 September 1932 and not published until October 2 photography in a supplement of the New York Herald Tribune. The construction that were conducting these workers is the GE Building Building of 259 meters and 70 floors, today is the seventh highest in the city.

Besides why cualas photo was taken, I think the height and freedom where people are is a meaningful picture of the time, just before the Great Depression.

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