{"id":1170,"date":"2011-08-22T10:38:06","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T15:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2013-05-08T15:21:43","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T20:21:43","slug":"carlos-vives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/2011\/08\/carlos-vives\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombia&#8217;s Vallenato Darling, Carlos Vives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I had to collect a list of 3 things that would impress locals if you already knew about when you visit Colombia they&#8217;d be salsa, aguardiente and Carlos Vives. Yup, even more useful than knowing the language.\u00a0Seeing as I&#8217;ve written about salsa and <a title=\"Colombian Culture: Family in Colombia\" href=\"http:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/2011\/05\/colombian-culture-family-in-colombia\/\">aguardiente<\/a> here on our Colombia Travel Blog, I think it&#8217;s nigh time I wrote a little about the Colombian legend that is Carlos Vives.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/va1TYFeMdeI\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center>Vives is Colombia&#8217;s biggest star of modern cumbia and vallenato, and one of the country&#8217;s biggest musical exports. His transformation of these genres into something appealing to global audiences is something that has earned him significant praise in critical circles, including three Latin Grammies.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1184\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1184\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/3969992167_f7982bcce5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1184\" title=\"Carlos Vives\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/3969992167_f7982bcce5.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/3969992167_f7982bcce5.jpg 500w, https:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/3969992167_f7982bcce5-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1184\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Carlos Vives collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Vives was born and raised in <a href=\"http:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/tours\/caribbean\/\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Marta<\/a>, Colombia, where he lived until the age of 12. It was then he moved to Bogot\u00e1 and became emerged in the city&#8217;s lively rock scene. Using influences from this scene Vives realised the potential to revamp traditional, local music styles in order to broaden their appeal. Initially, however, his albums flopped owing to their sentimental nature &#8211; the majority of the songs were ballads.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v9NZ-dlcVz0\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1185\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1185\" style=\"width: 388px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/m0cukkbq2xokoxb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1185\" title=\"Carlos Vives\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/m0cukkbq2xokoxb.jpg\" width=\"388\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/m0cukkbq2xokoxb.jpg 388w, https:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/m0cukkbq2xokoxb-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 388px) 100vw, 388px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1185\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carlos Vives<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It took a move to Puerto Rico and a subsequent return to Colombia to provide Vives with the winning formula for his music. Influenced by his role as famed vallenato singer Rafael Escalona in the telenovela <em>Escalona,<\/em>\u00a0Vives began rooting his music more firmly in the vallenato style. Come 1993, Vives had found the winning formula for his music, fusing vallenato, rock, pop and other Caribbean influences in his album <em>Cl\u00e1sicos de la Provincia<\/em>. The lead single of this album, &#8216;La Gota Fr\u00eda&#8217;, became an international hit and the album won the Best Album Award at the Billboard Latin Music Awards.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yb--YE2x1A0\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center>Follow-up albums include <em>La Tierra del Olvido, Tengo Fe, El Amor de Mi Tierra, D\u00e9jame Entrar<\/em> and <em>El Rock de Mi Pueblo <\/em>which have all been critically and commercially successful, with <em>D\u00e9jame Entrar<\/em> earning Vives his first Grammy.<\/p>\n<p>Check out two of my favourite tracks below: the questionably-messaged but catchy &#8216;La Celosa&#8217; and Vives&#8217;s cover of &#8216;Jaime Molina&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Paul<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pZtb0OQ1HiA\" height=\"345\" width=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QhjJw__-0pA\" height=\"345\" width=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I had to collect a list of 3 things that would impress locals if you already knew about when you visit Colombia they&#8217;d be salsa, aguardiente and Carlos Vives. Yup, even more useful than knowing the language.\u00a0Seeing as I&#8217;ve written about salsa and aguardiente here on our Colombia Travel Blog, I think it&#8217;s nigh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[35,115,66,97,73],"tags":[58,200],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.4 (Yoast SEO v18.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Colombia&#039;s Vallenato Darling, Carlos Vives - Colombia Travel Blog by See Colombia Travel<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/2011\/08\/carlos-vives\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Colombia&#039;s Vallenato Darling, Carlos Vives\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"If I had to collect a list of 3 things that would impress locals if you already knew about when you visit Colombia they&#8217;d be salsa, aguardiente and Carlos Vives. 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