Good day dear readers & blog followers!
Today I’m glad to present a song by a talented and interesting band from Santiago… but not Santiago as in the historical capital and 2nd largest city in Cuba, but Santiago, the capital of Chile.
This fine band was formed in 2002 by Sergio Riveros, Daniel Maldonado and Rafael Gamboa, 3 friends studying music at the Liceo Experimental Artistico, during their 3rd year of college.
Together with several more friends they formed “nuevo son” with the intention of bringing a new sound to traditional Cuban music.
The band performed for around a year before separating, as 2 members moved to France for work, and the others lost the motivation to go on.
After about another year, the band regrouped and reunited with a somewhat different collective of more mature and experienced musicians, thus calling themselves “Nuevo Son Orchesta”.
The band started performing again and became quite successful at the local level.
In 2005 both founding members who were working in France returned and rejoined the now orchestra, and the band took off to great local and regional success, covering classics in their own unique style and also presenting their original work, such as the song presented here today.
This wonderful song even comes with a message!
“queremos revolucion… hay una pequena accion… apaga la television, y dale ritmo al corazon, porque esta la razon, de todo ser en tu interior…”
And from the coro “no solo te pongo a gozar… oye! yo te pongo a pensar!”
Disfruten!
