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Rich's avatar

...and in case it's useful to any new members who've joined us with the exciting launch of Just About Elite Dangerous, here's a quick explainer for our organic rewards system:

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Sturmer's avatar

Colombian singer - Manuel Medrano
This song in particular has 742M views!

https://www.youtube.com/embed/zLX_GcXt2pI?feature=oembed

Alex Sinclair's avatar

Thanks Sturmer! Heartfelt gratitude is yours

Boomer's avatar

About 10 years ago my partner and I saw BARAKA play at a jazz and blues festival. We'd never heard of them at the time, but after their set we made a point of going back to see them the year after!

The band includes members from Ghana, Zambia, the Commonwealth of Dominica, The Congo, and Ireland!

Unfortunately they don't have much of an online presence, but there is an old BBC 3 article and interview(s) with the founder (Ben Baddoo) and this is the best video I could find:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/4YNjCYqud6g?feature=oembed

Annette's avatar

Years ago, I stayed in a little homestead deep in the Drakensburg mountains: a remote place, far from any civilised distractions but close to a string of untrammelled African-alpine paragliding launches. Unfortunately, the rain arrived when I did. Instead of whirling up to cloudbase as I had expected, I was stuck watching mountain thunderstorms through the house's many windows.

That week, as the rain crashed relentlessly down on the thatch roof, the man who owned the house played an album of Ballake Sissoko's over and over and over. Pinned as I was to the confines of his (beautiful) living room, I had the opportunity to discover just how much resonant density Sissoko packs into every stanza.

I think I understand now why my South African host played it so obsessively that week: the instrument, in Sissoko's hands, seems to speak in the language of rain.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/O_J4VUFahKs?feature=oembed

Alex Sinclair's avatar

Wow. This is really beautiful. And beautifully written too, especially the final line.

Rich's avatar

Carlos Santana was born and raised in Mexico, and though his family moved to San Franciso and he became a naturalised US citizen before he turned 20, I'll nominate him anyway for his mastery of Latin guitar music as well as his ability to fuse it with other styles to create something entirely new.

That's perhaps best exemplified in songs like Samba Pa Ti, a lovely two-part instrumental song that, especially in the speedier second part, fuses samba with blues:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/DWO_eojWezg?feature=oembed

Or Corazón Espinado, a collaboration with Latin rock band Maná

https://www.youtube.com/embed/t6omUxqhG78?feature=oembed

Put these songs together with his bigger commercial hits like Smooth (one of my all-time favourite rock songs, full of passion, virtually flawless) and Maria, Maria (which shows he can make bangers alongside hip hop artists too) and you really get a sense of Santana's range and musical vision, bringing various Latin guitar traditions into various more commercial ones.

And he's been doing it for years - he was at Woodstock 1969, electrifying the crowd with psychedelic hippie rock.

Dude's a genius.

Rich's avatar

In a very different vein from Santana, The Warning is a rock band composed of three sisters from Monterrey, Mexico who blew up in 2014/15 after their (amazing) cover of Enter Sandman went viral on YouTube. They've released several of their original records since and, though their style is pretty comparable to Western heavy rock, they represent their roots, singing several songs per album in Spanish.

They're also just extremely talented.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/KRA3nMzF31M?feature=oembed

Alex Sinclair's avatar

Hey Sneaky_Prawn - cool to see you're exploring the platform. This is showing as 'video unavailable' for me. Do you have another link?

Christian J. H.'s avatar

Gustavo Cerati from Argentina.
He passed away in 2014 but his legacy still live in us.❤️

That guitar perfomance from 5:11 to 6:52 😎

https://www.youtube.com/embed/XeDupvD6sos?feature=oembed

Alex Sinclair's avatar

Thanks Christian, I was introduced to Gustavo while living in Buenos Aires, and I understand why he's considered such an icon. What a classic sound! You can really hear the influence of The Police.

Christian J. H.'s avatar

That's amazing to know you lived in Buenos Aires, like Cerati used to call it in one of his songs,
"Ciudad De La Furia" (City of Fury) 🙂

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