Musica Latina

[Rasputin]

[mahsaak]

baba kheili dige mano tahvil gereftin,
i realy love here.
midonin ina az nazare farhangam be ma kheili shabihan. adamaye besiar jaleban, saboor va dast eb komakeshoon harf nadare.
i love salsaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

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Very little can be known for sure about music in what is now Latin America prior to the arrival of Europeans. Though there are extremely isolated peoples in the Amazon Basin and elsewhere that have had little contact with Europeans or Africans, Latin music is almost entirely a synthesis of European, African and indigenous elements. The advanced civilizations of the pre-contact era included the Mayan, Aztec and Incan empires. These cultures had well-developed musical institutions that were "reduced to simpler levels and styles through the annihilation or reduction of the ruling classes, and through the introduction of Christianity".

The ancient Meso-American civilizations of the Maya and Aztec peoples played instruments including the tlapitzalli (a flute), teponatzli, a log drum, the conch-shell trumpet, various rattles and rasps and the huehuetl, a kettle drum. The earliest written accounts by Spanish colonizers indicate that Aztec music was entirely religious in nature, and was performed by professional musicians; some instruments were considered holy, and thus mistakes made by performers were punished as being possibly offensive to the gods.

Pictorial representations indicate that ensemble performance was common. Similar instruments were also found among the Incas of South America, who played in addition a wide variety of ocarinas and panpipes. The tuning of panpipes found in Peru has similarities to instruments played in the Pacific islands, leading some scholars to believe in contact between South American and the Oceanic cultures.

Indian Music in the andean countries of Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia tends to have the prominent use of flutelike and wind instruments usually made from wood and canes as well as animal bones and wings. The rhythm is usually kept with drums made out of wood and animal skins with simple rythmic patterns of varying tempos. This is usually accompained with rattlelike sounding instruments made out of animal claws, smalls stones or seeds. String instruments of european and mediterranean origin have influenced local adaptations such as the bolivian charango or the ecuadorian mandolina. Genres in andean music are many within each country depending on region and indian community and ethicity within them. In Ecuador there is sanjuanitos and capishkas. In Peru there is Huaynos and in Bolivia there is Tinkus, chuntuquis and morenadas.

[Rasputin]

The new CD by Daniela Guzman is wonderful .

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Enrique Iglesias

Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler (born May 8, 1975, in Madrid, Spain) is a Spanish-born, Miami-based singer and multi-million-album seller.

Iglesias is the son of the famous Spanish singer Julio Iglesias and the Filipino-mestizo, Filipina socialite and Hola! magazine journalist, Isabel Preysler.


Iglesias' album sales currently total over forty million, making him one of the best-selling Spanish music artists in the world. Iglesias has yet to overtake his father's great sales figures, but has outsold Julio in single-album sales, arguably justifying the label his record company gave him as "best selling Spanish artist in the world". He is the best-selling Spanish-language artist of the last decade. Iglesias has said that if he has children and they wish to follow in his footsteps, he would naturally expect them also to be better than he is.

Iglesias has collaborated with songwriter Guy Chambers to write "Un Nuovo Giorno", the lead single from Andrea Bocelli's first pop album. The song was later translated into English as "First Day Of My Life" and recorded by former Spice Girl Melanie Chisholm, the song has since gone to become a huge hit throughout Europe, and has landed at the number one spot in numerous countries. Four songs co-written by Iglesias appear on the UK band The Hollies current album. Many times Iglesias has said that should he ever retire that he wants to write and produce songs for other artists.

In 2000 Iglesias co produced an Off-Broadway musical called Four Guys Named Jose and Una Mujer Named Maria. In the musical, four Americans of Latin heritage possess a common interest in music and meet and decide to put on a show. The show contained many references and allusions to many classic and contemporary latin and pop songs by the likes of Carmen Miranda, Selena, Richie Valens, Santana, Ricky Martin and Iglesias himself.

Iglesias also developed an interest in acting, starring alongside Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek and Johnny Depp in the Robert Rodriguez film Once Upon a Time in Mexico, in which he played the foul-mouthed gun-wielding Lorenzo. He says that he would act again if given small roles that he could fit in between his musical commitments.

Iglesias also played the part of an evil Roman emperor in an ambitious TV commercial for Pepsi, which sponsored his last world tour. He starred alongside Britney Spears, Beyonce and P!nk, who turn the tables on him in the commercial.

In June of 2000 radio personality Howard Stern received a tape of a supposedly off-key (MP3 of Iglesias singing, Video of Iglesias singing) along to the track "Rhythm Divine". Stern played this humorous clip throughout the week on his radio show insinuating that Iglesias lipsynched and couldn't sing well outside the studio, even suggesting that Iglesias himself did not sing on his albums, comparing him to Milli Vanilli. Iglesias flew straight in to New York to appear on Stern's show, singing acoustic versions of "Rhythm Divine" and "Be With You", after which Stern told Iglesias he had silenced his critics. Iglesias would go on to say that controversy and his appearance on the show was the best promotion he could have.

Between albums, Iglesias usually forgoes public appearances, but more recently he has made a number of appearances in the media. He has been a guest on Oprah Winfrey's talk show, surprising one of his fans and spending the day with her. He also appeared at the Premios Juventud and was a musical guest on the final broadcast of Diego Maradona's television show in Argentina.

Iglesias has also attended various promotional events for the Tommy Hilfiger fragrance called "True Star Men", which he is endorsing. Enrique stars in the commercial for the fragrence itself with the theme song "Ring My Bell" which may be a track on his upcoming album. Iglesias has also appeared on the season finale of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition singing a song called "Somebody's Me" which may also be on the upcoming album.

More recently, Iglesias has also performed live in one-off concerts in Italy and Uruguay as well as performing at a festival for MTV in Malaga alongside Paulina Rubio and has completed a series of concerts in the States. The "For the Fans Tour" featured much of his older repetoir as well as new songs in both English and Spanish.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TmxfHbd-M0

[truthteller]

There is lots of good latin music out there. It matches our taste

If you like rhythmic dance music with latin beats, try afro-cuban salsa, for example some good songs from 'Africando', a really nice band, listen to their song 'Betece'.

If you are into more soothing music, well then try something Brazilan Bossa Nova music ... almost anything from Antonio Carlos Jobim.

If you like Flamenco Spanish guitar music, some names that come to mind are Paco De Lucia, Enrique Montoya, Pepe Romero.

We also got some good new flamenco style music from our own Iranian artists, such as Armik and Ardeshir Farrah.

[naznazzii]

latino music is very beautiful, and energetic, but at the same time we also have to be proud of our own culture and music and not care about what other think, and when we are confident about our culture others will have interists in our heritage.

[csite]

latino music is very beautiful, and energetic, but at the same time we also have to be proud of our own culture and music and not care about what other think, and when we are confident about our culture others will have interists in our heritage.

let's be honest, persian music isn't very good! We have 2-3 actual tallented artists, the rest i personally find rather.. annoying!

i was in kish couple years ago... they had a mini "iranian pop idol" competition for the kish festival, most of those guys i found had more tallent than most iranian americans who come up with their singles, their degrading our music industry and should be banned!

[Rasputin]

i love this song ... vamos nena... a bailarrrrrrrrrrrrrr ... mueve la caderaaaaaaaaa :=) ... una noche massssssssss ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l31LA1zOQI