"Alicia Adorada" | |
---|---|
Song | |
Songwriter(s) | Juancho Polo Valencia |
"Alicia Adorada" is a Colombian song written and performed by Juancho Polo Valencia. [1] [2]
The song was written by Valencia about the 1942 death during childbirth of his 22-year-old wife, Alicia Cantilla Mendoza, while Valencia was in another village. The song was reportedly composed as an elegy while Valencia mourned at the grave of his wife. Valencia reportedly sold the rights to the song to a record company in exchange for money he needed to buy liquor. [3]
In its list of the 50 best Colombian songs of all time, El Tiempo , Colombia's most widely circulated newspaper, ranked the version of the song recorded by Alejandro Durán at No. 10. [4] Viva Music Colombia rated the song No. 12 on its list of the 100 most important Colombian songs of all time. [5]
The song was recorded by Valencia and popularized in a recording by Alejandro Durán. Carlos Vives covered the song on his album Clásicos de la Provincia (1993), a collection of vallenato songs which popularized its genre outside of Colombia. [6] Vives' version peaked at number 25 on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart in the United States. [7] Other artists recording the song included Carlos Vives, Orlando y Su Combo, Aníbal Velásquez Hurtado, Los Black Stars, Ariza y Su Combo, Eneida Cedeño, Dorindo Cárdenas Y Su Conjunto Orgullo Santeño, Juan Polo Valencia, Jorge Oñate / Juancho Rois, and Chirimia. [8]
Carlos Alberto Vives Restrepo is a Colombian singer, songwriter and actor.
Diomedes Díaz Maestre was a Colombian vallenato singer, songwriter, and composer. His nickname, "El Cacique de la Junta", was given to him by another vallenato singer, Rafael Orozco Maestre, in honor to Díaz's birthplace.
Clásicos de la Provincia is the sixth album by Colombian singer/composer Carlos Vives. Released in Colombia in late 1993, and internationally on February 22, 1994, the album is a collection of Colombian vallenato standards. The album made Vives a superstar in Colombia and was his breakthrough in the Vallenato genre.
La Gota Fría is a 1938 Colombian Vallenato song, composed by Emiliano Zuleta. It has been proposed as an unofficial Colombian anthem. The song emerged from a musical controversy with Lorenzo Morales. Many artists had covered the song include Carlos Vives, Grupo Niche, Ray Conniff, Gran Pachanga, Los Joao, La Sonora Dinamita, Julio Iglesias, Tulio Zuloaga, and Alfredo Gutiérrez. The title of the song alludes metaphorically to the weather phenomenon, in which a cold front clashes with warm air, producing heavy storms and torrential rains; the cold drop is occasionally apparent near the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.
The 3rd Annual Latin Grammy Awards were held in Los Angeles at the Kodak Theatre on Wednesday, September 18, 2002. Alejandro Sanz was the night's big winner, winning a total of three awards including Album of the Year. The ceremony returned in style after the 2001 ceremony was cancelled because of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks across America, and all presenters apologized to viewers during the broadcast for such.
Bernardo Ossa is a Colombian composer, musician, sound engineer, Record Label manager and 4 time Grammy Award producer. He was born in Bogotá, Colombia.
Clásicos de la Provincia II is the twelfth album by Colombian singer/composer Carlos Vives. The album is a sequel to Vives' 1993 breakthrough album Clásicos de la Provincia and like its predecessor it is a collection of vallenato standards, updated by Carlos and his long-time backing band La Provincia.
"Volví a Nacer" is a song written and performed by Colombian recording artist Carlos Vives and co-produced by Andrés Castro. Following an international hiatus, it was released as the lead single from his thirteenth studio album Corazón Profundo (2013) on September 24, 2012. The song's lyrics are in Spanish and were inspired by the events of his music career as well as his wife Claudia Elena Vásquez. It is described by Vives as a romantic song with elements of Colombian vallenato and pop music.
The discography of Carlos Vives, a Colombian musician, consists of thirteen studio albums, thirty singles and music videos.
"La Bicicleta" is a song by Colombian singers Carlos Vives and Shakira from Vives' fifteenth studio album Vives (2017) and is also included as an album track on Shakira's eleventh studio album El Dorado (2017). The song was written by both singers, and produced by Andrés Castro and it marks Shakira's first collaboration with a fellow Colombian artist. "La Bicicleta" was intended to be representative of both singers' homelands musical styles in Colombia. It is a song with a mixture of various musical elements - vallenato, pop and cumbia and instrumentally, it features indigenous Colombian wind instruments and accordions. Lyrically, it is a nostalgic song, describing the duo's excursion on bikes to places of their childhood. Music critics reviewed the song positively, praising it for its catchiness and inclusion of various Colombian music elements. The song won two Latin Grammy Awards at the 17th Latin Grammy Awards for Song of the Year and Record of the Year.
La prepago is a Colombian telenovela produced by Sony Pictures Television for RCN Televisión, based on the popular book written by Carlos Duplat, Las memorias de Andrea.
"Colombia Tierra Querida" is a song written by Lucho Bermúdez in the Colombian cumbia genre. It is also the name of the 1970 album by Bermúdez, released on CBS Records, that introduced the song.
"Soy Colombiano" is a Colombian song in the bambuco style written by Rafael Godoy. It was first recorded in 1945 by Eduardo Armani and his orchestra.
"La Casa en el Aire" is a Colombian vallenato song written and performed by Rafael Escalona.
"Pueblito Viejo" is a Colombian waltz written by José A. Morales. The song was inspired by the steep, cobbled streets of Socorro, Santander, where Morales spent his childhood. It won a gold record in 1966.
"El Camino de la Vida" is a Colombian song written in 1986 by Héctor Ochoa Cárdenas. It was popularized by the recording of the song by Arboleda y Valencia.
"La Ruana" is a Colombian bambuco song written by José Macías y Luis Carlos González. It was popularized in a recording from the 1950s by Obdulio y Julián.
"Ay Mi Llanura" is a Colombian song in the joropo genre written and performed by Arnulfo Briceño. The song pays tribute to the majesty of the plains of Colombia's Meta Department. In 1967, it won first prize in the VI Festival de la Canción Colombiana. In 1979, it was adopted as the official anthem of the Meta Department.
"Cachipay" is a Colombian song in the pasillo genre written by Emilio Murillo. It was popularized through a recording by Jaime Llano González.