Francesco Lastrucci
ARTS: El Cafetal: Cafetal_FLedit2-21

Villanueva town square. Man singing vallenato song with a guitar. While rough hewn and leathery in sound, vallenato lyrics are usually plain written and sugarcane sweet. Everyday events, passion, eternal love, village folklore, travelogues and miracles blur in the telling; voices crack, crackle with emotion in a music that so influenced Gabriel Garcia Marquez that he once described One Hundred Years of Solitude as a 350 page vallenato
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