ChocQuibTown es un nombre que cada vez se hace mas común en la onda y las pistas de baile colombianas. Su mezcla de ritmos tradicionales del Pacífico con elementos del hip-hop y una fuerte dosis de “funky” les está haciendo ganar un lugar en las listas musicales de los jóvenes como así tambien en la audiencia mas tradicional. En esta entrevista exclusiva de Yabla, tuvimos la oportunidad de hablar con la banda sobre donde exactamente está todo.

Haciendo un poco de investigación descubrimos que la comedia musical que Arturo Vega hizo con Héctor Suárez en el Teatro Insurgentes titulada Sigue tu onda, fue una adaptación al español del show de Broadway Your Own Thing. Tiempo después el mismo Arturo estaría viajando a Nueva York para ver si podía conseguir un papel en Hair ...

As it turns out the young Arturo Vega, Mexican emigré actor and artist in New York, lived below a girl who was seeing a young man named Douglas Glenn Colvin (who would come to be known as “Dee Dee Ramone”). The two visionaries got to talking…

Edgar Huerta, keyboardist of Belanova, refers to Joselo of Cafe Tacuba as un cuate. The word comes from the indigenous Nahuatl word coatl, which means “twin.” But Joselo is not Edgar’s gemelo, cuate is known by all Mexicans to refer to a “good buddy,” a “dear friend.”

Arriving in December of ‘71, a young Arturo Vega decides that it is New York where he is going to clavar, or stay put. His journey began in Mexico, where he began his artistic life as an actor and participant in experimental theater or “happenings”—an art form which was not well received by the powers that be in that country.

We’ve all heard of the bolero, which has its modern roots in nineteenth century Santiago de Cuba (even though we might not be able to hum one on cue). But what about the cuartetazo? Born in Córdoba, Argentina, and derived from Spanish and Italian dances, the name is derived from the fact that the earliest players were invariably four-piece bands. The rhythm is similar to merengue.