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The music of Colombia is an expression of Colombian culture, music genres, both traditional and modern, according with the features of each geographic region, although it is not uncommon to find different musical styles in the same region. The diversity in musical expressions found in Colombia can be seen as the result of a mixture of Amerindian, African, and European influences, as well as more modern American.
This page is a glossary of Colombian music.
Leonor Gonzalez Mina is a prominent Afro-Colombian musician and actress, known as "la Negra Grande de Colombia". She is known for her work in several genres of Colombian music, including bolero, pasillo, bambuco, and especially cumbia. She is known for songs such as "Mi Buenaventura", "Navidad Negra", and "Yo Me Llamo Cumbia".
Afro-Colombians or African-Colombians are Colombians of full or partial sub-Saharan African descent.
Carlos Huertas Gómez was a Colombian vallenato music composer predominantly, singer and guitarist. At the age of 16, Huertas traveled from his hometown to Venezuela to study music at a conservatory, composing in different genres such as paseo vallenato, pasaje, merengue vallenato, joropo, gaita, porro, vals, bolero, pasillo, bambuco and other Caribbean rhythms.
El Sanjuanero, often called simply Sanjuanero, is a traditional Colombian bambuco song. Its music was written in 1936 by Anselmo Duran Plazas and its lyrics were written by Sofía Gaitán Yanguas. It was first performed on July 12, 1936. and recorded for the first time in the 1950s by the duo Garzon y Collazos. It's one of Colombia's most recognizable folkloric songs, and it is the anthem of the Festival Folclórico y Reinado Nacional del Bambuco.
Alexander Cuesta-Moreno. Bassist, Guitarist, Multi-instrumentalist, Choir and Band Conductor, Producer, Arranger and Composer.
Pombo Musical is a children's album produced by Colombian recording artist Carlos Vives, as a musical tribute to the Colombian writer and poet Rafael Pombo. It was released on August 13, 2008, under Vives' label Gaira Música Local. The album came into fruition when Rafael Pombo Foundation president Juanita Santos asked Vives to craft a musical that uses Pombo's most iconic poems and fables he created. Its music incorporates a variety of Colombian folk genres and mixes in contemporary genres like Latin pop and pop rock. Among the 14 tracks present in the album, only one was released as a single, "El Modelo Alfabético". All the lyrics were written originally by Rafael Pombo, and produced by Vives. Pombo Musical was well-received, and was certified platinum in Colombia by the Asociación Colombiana de Productores de Fonogramas (ASINCOL). It also won some accolades, including a Latin Grammy Award for Best Latin Children's Album, and a Premio Shock for Best Compilation.
Cimarrón is a Colombian musical group of festive dance music joropo from the plains of the Orinoco River. This Grammy-nominated band makes Latin music with Andalusian, Indigenous American native and African roots. Their music includes four-stringed cuatro, harp, maracas, and also Peruvian-flamenco cajón, Brazilian surdo, afro-Colombian tambora, a stomp dance as a percussion component and tribal indigenous whistles.
"El Año Viejo" is a song written by the Colombian songwriter Crescencio Salcedo in the cumbia genre. First recorded in 1953, the song has been described as "the legitimate and necessary hymn to say goodbye to the old year."
"Cali Pachanguero" is a salsa song performed by Grupo Niche and written by the group's founder Jairo Varela. Released in 1984, it has been called an anthem of Colombian salsa.
"La Guaneña" is a Colombian song in the bambuco genre. The song is attributed to Nicanor Díaz. In its list of the 50 best Colombian songs of all time, El Tiempo, Colombia's most widely circulated newspaper, ranked it No. 1 as the best Colombian song of all time and called it the first bambuco.
"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.
"Alicia Adorada" is a Colombian song written and performed by Juancho Polo Valencia.
"Cuatro Preguntas" is a Colombian song in the bambuco genre written by Pedro Morales Pino and Eduardo López.
"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.
"El Cafetero" is an instrumental song in the pasillo genre written by Maruja Hinestroza Rosero.
"Carmentea" is a Colombian song in the joropo genre written by Miguel Ángel Martín. It was popularized through a recording by Luis Ariel Rey. The song became an anthem of llanero folklore.
Victoria Eugenia Hernández Urrea, better known as Victoria Sur, is a Colombian singer, musician and composer born in Armenia, Quindío. In 2021 she was nominated for the Latin Grammy Awards in the category of Best Latin Children's Album, for her record Nanas consentidoras.
References
- ↑ "Cuatro preguntas". El Espectador. May 11, 2017.
- ↑ "Las 50 mejores canciones de Colombia". El Tiempo.
