Difficulty: Beginner
Mexico
To hear La Gusana Ciega play live we trekked to a club called Babel located in a giant mall / theme park called Mundo E, located just north of Mexico City. Come backstage with us for an exclusive interview you’ll find only here!
Difficulty: Intermediate
Mexico
We skip backstage once again to get some final thoughts from La Gusana Ciega, learning a bit more about their career and personnel changes. Like many of Mexico’s popular bands today, they got their start at a Mexico City club called Cocotitlán, which is also the name of a municipality well known for its corn festival.
Difficulty: Beginner
Mexico
If someone offered to be your space cowboy, would you be their Venus in the sand? La Gusana Ciega (the blind worm) from Mexico offers another catchy surrealist tune.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Mexico
The moon just won't be the same without you, sing the quirky, romantic band, La Gusana Ciega (literally, the Blind Worm). Yup, those flowers on the moon are going to be thirsty. (Did we mention this band is quirky?)
Difficulty: Intermediate
Mexico
The Mexican pop band La Gusana Ciega sings "727," a song about how letting go can allow you to soar. This video also documents the life on the road.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Mexico
Who is this Merlina, muse of the hypnotic song by La Gusana Ciega of Mexico? Even if we don't know, it's easy to enjoy her tribute.
Difficulty: Beginner
Chile
"Mentira" ["Lie"] is the first single from the 2001 MTV Unplugged album by the Chilean rock band, "La Ley" ["The Law"].
Difficulty: Beginner
Puerto Rico
Grammy-nominated La Secta Allstar boasts Puerto Rican roots despite having come together in Orlando, where the members attended college, and shortly after that settling in Miami. This title track from their album, Consejo, may very well make their mothers and mothers around the Spanish speaking world proud.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Puerto Rico
Of course tuve is the preterite yo form tener, so one might be misled to think that the refrain of this tune is “I had, I had.” However, in casual speech on the beautiful island of Puerto Rico, tú ve’ is short for tú ves (“you see”), but the uninitiated could easily mistake it for the verb tuve (“I had”). ¿Tú ve’?
Difficulty: Beginner
Puerto Rico
This Puerto Rican band wasn’t on the island from the get-go. Two of La Secta’s members, Mark and Gustavo, met in Orlando during school and then moved to Miami Beach. There, they met up with John and Carlos and started writing songs. The message of their album Fuego, which shines through in “Déjalos que hablen,” is, according to John, “to be positive in the face of a moment of so many changes in the world.”
Difficulty: Intermediate
Colombia
The Colombian TV Program La Sub30 explores various aspects of today's traditional and non-traditional families, including such subjects as interracial and Common Law marriages as well as the decision to have children.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Colombia
Colombian family members speak about the dynamics of their families growing up as well as their current families and the differences between families in Colombia and the United States.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Colombia
Twenty-two year old Estefanía García, the spokeswoman for a company in Cali, tells us her perspective on why it does not make sense to her to have children in today's society.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Colombia
The exploration of Colombian family dynamics continues as interracial couples share the stories of how they first met and fell in love.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Colombia
Meet Yimmy, who grew up on the streets and in a children's home, and his daughter Karen Dayana, who almost met the same fate as her father. They make up one of the many types of families we see today.
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