Soledad & Silvestre Dangond Talk the Identity, Legacy & Future of Folk Music at Latin Music Week

On Tuesday (October 21), Argentina and Colombia agreed for Billboard Latin Music Week in a speech wherever 2 superstars of Latin American people euphony shared their experiences: Soledad and Silvestre Dangond.

During the sheet “Desde La Raíz” (“from the root” successful English) moderated by Ezequiel Ruiz of Billboard Argentina, the award-winning Argentine singer-songwriter and the Colombian vallenato prima discussed the value of preserving archetypal sounds.

“It’s important that determination are purists. [At first] they told maine I was sidesplitting vallenato. However, that kept maine going and brought maine to wherever I am,” said Dandong proudly. He has brought his ain benignant to the genre crossed the 18 albums that marque up his discography, ever including astatine slightest 2 autochthonal songs. “That’s however I grew up; I grew up watching the large exponents of vallenato. I lived it and I respire it.”

For her part, “La Sole,” arsenic galore telephone her, shared however she began to carve retired a abstraction for herself successful the industry. “I travel from a tiny town, wherever philharmonic civilization is precise strong,” said the creator calved successful Arequito, successful the Argentine state of Santa Fe. “When the large names were nary longer around, I thought I could person a place, my ain place, but proceed that legacy,” she recalled, thanking her begetter for buying the 5,000 records ordered by the archetypal grounds statement that signed her (Sony Music) to proceed her contract. “He borrowed wealth to lick it astatine the time. My aged antheral ever believed successful me, and to this day, I constitute songs dedicated to him.”

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Both figures agreed connected the crushed they correspond their countries done their voices: to emotion what they do, grant it, and bask it. However, they person precise idiosyncratic views connected the aboriginal of people music.

In Soledad’s case, she admitted that she’s much unfastened to the euphony being made by young radical successful Argentina today. “Sometimes determination are things I don’t similar arsenic much,” she confessed, “although I indispensable admit that immoderate radical look to folklore for elements to fuse with their sounds.”

With his diagnostic laid-back personality, Dandong stated that helium isn’t captious of the euphony presently being made successful Colombia. “I besides did what I wanted; property defines what 1 sings. Let’s fto radical mature and let’s bash little disapproval and much accompaniment,” the vocalist emphatically declared. In caller months, helium has released collaborations with Emilia, Banda MS, and Carín León, demonstrating his openness and involvement successful conquering and experimenting successful caller markets.

Spanning much than 30 years, Latin Music Week is the single-most important and largest gathering of Latin artists and manufacture executives successful the world...