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Seva Vive - 2. La copla

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Puerto Rico

History tells us that the 1898 U.S. invasion of Puerto Rico occurred in June and from the south. The fictional short story, Seva, tells a different story, one of an invasion from the east that came a month earlier. A type of musical oral history known as a "copla" mirrors the fictional story.
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Caption 6 [es]: Bueno como las plenas, la copla recoge,
Caption 6 [en]: Well, like the "plenas" [folkloric songs], the verse picks...
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Héctor Lavoe - Periódico de Ayer

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Puerto Rico

In legendary Puerto Rican salsa singer Héctor Lavoe's 1976 hit, "Periódico de Ayer," Hector compares an ex-flame's love to yesterday's news. This is truly "classic" salsa that is known and loved throughout the Spanish speaking world and beyond — a must for any serious student of latin culture.
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Caption 25 [es]: Tú eres El Diario La Prensa
Caption 25 [en]: You are El Diario La Prensa [New York City's main Spanish Language newspaper]
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Kany Garcia - Amigo En El Baño

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Puerto Rico

Viewer Discretion Advised
Kany García has been enjoying a successful career and winning some of the most prestigious Spanish music awards, but if you go by this song, her love life hasn’t been quite as satisfying. Well, luckily, she’s found a solution to this problem (batteries sold separately).
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Caption 3 [es]: pues yo misma me decía 'no lo pierdas'
Caption 3 [en]: since I said to myself, "don't lose him,"
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Carli Muñoz - Niñez - Part 1

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Puerto Rico

Being a rebel is an undeniable part of becoming a rock star, and that’s something that Carli Muñoz couldn’t avoid when he was a kid. He had a head full of music, but little patience for music lessons. Lucky for him, the owner of the instrument store let him pound out his own musical education on the store piano.
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Caption 49 [es]: y tocaba ritmos como las plenas y... y el guaguancó.
Caption 49 [en]: and I played rhythms like "plenas" and... and the guaguancó [types of Puerto Rican music]
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Luís Fonsi - Por una Mujer

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Puerto Rico

Puerto Rican by birth, Luis Fonsi moved at an early age to Orlando, Florida. Despite having participated in a number of minor “boy bands,” it wasn’t until he was discovered by the president of the music school at the University of Florida, where he was a student, that he was offered a sizable recording contract. Success came quickly as his reputation spread throughout Latin America.
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Caption 10 [es]: Yo con tantas penas y dolores del pasado la veía más como un fantasma
Caption 10 [en]: With so many sorrows and pains from the past, I saw her more like a ghost
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Circo - La sospecha

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Puerto Rico

Viewer Discretion Advised
Have you ever had una sospecha (a suspicion)? Puerto Rico’s Circo explores restless uncertainty and mines a treasure chest of carnivalesque imagery from the world of Santeria, that mix of African deity worship and Catholicism that sprouted after African slaves arrived on the shores of the new world.
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Caption 19 [es]: Prende la mecha, embrujándome de amor
Caption 19 [en]: Light the wick, bewitching me with love
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Vivanativa - Si tú me quieres

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Puerto Rico

Oye, Vivanativa puts the effee in funky! This grupo boricua has been taking the island, and now the world, like a category five hurricane heading straight for San Juan.
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Caption 6 [es]: Piensas que esto nunca funcionó
Caption 6 [en]: You think that this never worked out

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