{"id":207460,"date":"2017-12-18T16:46:25","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T15:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.visit-latin-america.com\/?p=207460"},"modified":"2026-02-12T18:44:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T16:44:35","slug":"colombia-with-thousands-of-rhythms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visit-latin-america.com\/en\/colombia-with-thousands-of-rhythms\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombia with thousands of rhythms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you already were so lucky to travel to Colombia<\/mark><\/a>, this article on Colombian music and dances will inevitably remind you memories! If you do not know this country yet, it’s time to go.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mixed cultures, these dances and music are one of the greatest riches of this beautiful country. Now you just have to learn a few steps of Salsa!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MUSICAL JOURNEY TO ELDORADO COUNTRY<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Key features and roadmap<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Brazil and Cuba, Colombia lives at the rhythm of music. James Rodriguez, the famous Colombian football player celebrates each goal record by dancing a \u00absalsa choque\u00bb on the grass. The city of Cali is seen as the \u00ab capital of salsa \u00bb which is considered to be born in New York. Colombia adds in at least three music
festivals per month. This why is called the \u00ab country of thousands of rhythms \u00bb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Key features<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

American Indian, Spanish and African have created the traditional Colombian music within four centuries of cultural sharing. According to the regions, instruments, songs, dances and the source of rhythms have merged to create a wide diversity of styles largely opened to influences of International popular music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colombian passion! Caribbean music<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greatly labelled by the Afro-Colombian culture and opened to International Black music influences, the \u00abritmos del caribe\u00bb are very trendy and evolve over and over. Their musical centre is Cartagena, the cumbia\u2019s emblematic land, sensual mix of indigenous and african sounds. Mostly unknown, the San Basilio de Palenque drums bands are in an old village established by escaped slaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Key features \u00ab Colombia with thousands of rhytms \u00bb<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Trend & tradition! \u00abEl vallenato\u00bb<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce rythme, n\u00e9 sur la c\u00f4t\u00e9 carib\u00e9enne de La Guajira, forme avec la salsa le duo musical le plus populaire en Colombie. D\u2019ailleurs le \u00ab vallenato \u00bb se danse un peu comme une salsa plus lente. L\u2019accord\u00e9on et les instruments de percussion indig\u00e8nes et africains qui l\u2019accompagnent donnent le son si particulier de ce rythme qui maintient inalt\u00e9rables ses racines folkloriques et traditionnelles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le son des tropiques ! La salsa de Cali<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

C\u2019est la capitale incontest\u00e9e de la salsa colombienne. Cali a cr\u00e9\u00e9 un style de salsa endiabl\u00e9 et rapide qui fait \u00e9cole \u00e0 travers le monde entier. Situ\u00e9e dans la vall\u00e9e tropicale du Cauca, r\u00e9gion de plantations de cannes \u00e0 sucre, la ville de Cali est \u00e9galement un bastion de la culture afro-colombienne. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Very different from the one in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador, the music of the Andes is played with string instruments and may include songs and dances. \u00abEl Bambuco\u00bb is the most common. Please note that the Spanish influence in this region has led to a sacred fine music played mainly during the Holy Week, the week before Easter, in Villa de Leyva, Popayan and in the coffee region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The most surprising! The Medellin Tango<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since its origins, early 20th century, tango has two homelands: Buenos Aires and Medellin. Carlos Gardel, tango icon, performed his last concert there before he died on a plane crash. Since, he is venerated as a local star. You cannot go to Medellin without stopping by one of the \u00abtango bars\u00bb…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The most lyrical! The \u00abLlanera\u00bb music<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soft and sometimes melancholic, the rhythms arise in the Llanos, plains with no ending on the Colombian eastern side which are dedicated to the bovine farming and have a remarkable rich wildlife and flora. Along with harp and maracas, the \u00abLlanera music\u00bb is the country music of Colombia…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yuri Buenaventura<\/strong><\/span>
SALSA, SALSISSIMA<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

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Meeting with the Colombian Music Star<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A full interview where Yuri Buenaventura explains, analyses with passion the music of Colombia, he even sings to outline and illustrate the variations between Colombian and Latin American sounds. Let\u2019s talk about salsa: \u00ab This rhythm was created by Puerto Rican immigrants in New York, to feel a bit more at home and escape from their, sometimes, difficult daily life, thanks to this explosive, sensual, festive music. \u00bb Then salsa migrated to Latino countries, \u00abin a joyful energy of brotherhood between people\u00bb until it became the sound of Latin America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everyone will perform with his own style. Cali\u2019s salsa has the flavor of Cauca valley Afro rhythms. More dancing, faster too. \u00ab The salsa singer from Cali must be sensitive to the dancers on the dance floor in order to transfer the frenetic rhythm from which they invent elegant and also elaborated dance steps. Even acrobatics. \u00bb Yuri says in the fifties, radios were swinging from 78rpm speed to 45rpm, which gave the unique sound of the salsa from Cali.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Buenaventura, Colombian harbor on the Pacific coast, Yuri Buenaventura was rocked by the traditional drums of Black communities. \u00ab The drums of Buenaventura are not the same as the mystical ones from San Basilio de Palenque in the Caribbean area, nevertheless as much pervaded by the same magic source: Afro culture and indigenous influences \u00bb.
Among his projects, Yuri would like to organize a music festival in Buenaventura like he did in 2011 and do a project based on the sound from Buenaventura and the one from Salvador de Bahia in Brazil. \u00aba musical journey through Latin America.\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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