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| | Batanga - Latin Music Internet Radio |
 | | All of the songs were written by Carlos Vives, with some of his colleagues from La Provincia, and with his producers. |
 | | Regarding his motivations, Carlos Vives maintains that, for him, the genre of cumbia is like his blues, since both types of music originated around the same time, in the age of slavery. |
 | | Carlos tells of the time, around 1986, 1987, when guitar player Bernardo Velasco, from the group Distrito Especial, in Bogotá, and Ernesto Teto Ocampo, La Provincia’s lead guitarist, “discovered in Colombian music, through the electric guitar and the drums, a pattern for cumbia similar to rock. |
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