What is candombe? In this episode from Sonido Babel [Babel Sound], we'll travel to Uruguay to find out more about this musical style that is influenced by more than twenty different African cultures as well as the indigenous Charrúas and Guaranis, the Spanish, and the Portuguese.
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Caption 53 [es]: que es tierra, eh... donde se origina el candombe. Caption 53 [en]: which is the land, um... where candombe originates.
In the previous segment we found Milagros and Gloria shaking it to un ritmo vallenato from Colombia’s Caribbean coast. Upon her return to the convent, Milagros is singing Ricky Maravilla’s "¿Que tendrá el petiso?" which probably got its inspiration from "Locas por el mambo", a huge 1950 Havana hit from the great Benny Moré.
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Caption 16 [es]: No se los pudo haber tragado la tierra. Caption 16 [en]: The earth couldn't have swallowed them up.