ABOUT ME

I am a music and LALS (Latin American Studies) student that lives in New York and ironically enough living here I became interested in Colombian music. In New York one is exposed to a huge variety of cultures each with its own sounds, colors and flavors. In this city I became interested in finding the sounds, the colors and flavors of Colombia. I grew up in Bogotá listening to salsa, merengue, rock and hip hop ignoring traditional music. My quest to find the Colombian sounds took me to discovering a strong indigenous tradition, the legacy of the biggest Black Spanish-speaker population in the world, and the poetic structures of the Spanish language, all fused in the rhythm of Cumbia.
Cumbia is a Colombian rhythm that has been expanded all over the American continent, from southern Argentina to the United States. Cumbia was born in north Colombia, the caribbean coast of the country, with the arrival of the Spanish colonizers and African slaves. Cumbia is the fusion between European and African traditions with the indigenous people that already inhabited the northern coast of the country.