Canto al Vietnam
1975 · Caliente LCS 153-113 · Colombia
- Artist
- Los Cañaguateros
- Title
- Canto al Vietnam
- Release
- Quién ha dicho...?
- Year
- 1975
- Label
- Caliente # LCS 153-113
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Colombia
- Songwriter
- Pedro García
- Genre
- Hispanic Music · Vallenato
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation — Latin & Central American, & Caribbean Music
Vallenato band from Colombia, led by Pedro García (leader, vocals). Other members in the group included: Florentino Montero (accordion), Gregorio Suárez (bass), Danny Castilla (percussion), Leonel Benítez (cowbell), Nacho Zabarain (tumbadora), Calazan González (tumbadora), José Mindiola (guacharaca), Esteban Salas (guacharaca, chorus), Ramón Arrieta (chorus).12 They released the song "Canto al Vietnam" in the Vallenato genre, a form of Hispanic American Folk Music - "Vallenato, along with Cumbia, is the most popular folk music of Colombia. It was born in the 1900s in the Caribbean region of Colombia and is traditionally played with accordion, caja vallenata and guacharaca. Vallenato has four main rhythm types: son, paseo, puya and merengue. Today, vallenato is also present in Ecuador and Venezuela".Sources1panoramacultural.com.co: El eterno esplendor de los canaguateros↩2repositorio.unal.edu.co: IVO ZABALETA BOLAÑOS. EL VALLENATO DE PROTESTA. MAESTRÍA EN MUSICOLOGÍA↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Track A3 of "Quién ha dicho...?" (Caliente LCS 153-113, Colombia, 1975), written by Pedro García, who sings lead. The song is not on "Lo último.....", the album named on the RYM list.
About the artist
Colombian vallenato group led by Pedro García (leader, vocals); members included Florentino Montero (accordion), Gregorio Suárez (bass), Danny Castilla (percussion). [Source: Discogs]
Themes
In collections
Latin & Central American, & Caribbean Music · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]