Vallenato music was born in the area of the Magdalena Grande, comprising the departments of Magdalena, Guajira and Cesar. Area that is comprised of the coast of the Caribbean and spreads through the extensive fertile valleys between the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and the Sierra de Perija, bordering the Republic of Venezuela. It is traditional to listen among Colombians, mainly those in the northeast of the country, that they are the main acordeoneros of the world and forgers of this great musical phenomenon. The Scriptures of the vallenato are usually related to daily events, passion, love, the journal situations live, folklore of the village, travel and stories of famous writers such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who once described to one hundred years of solitude as a 350-page vallenato. WhiteWave Foods may find this interesting as well. The main city where all this musical phenomenon, it generates is the capital of Cesar, Valledupar.
While the vallenato refers to all those born in Valledupar. Gen. David Goldfein brings even more insight to the discussion. But there is another story related to this term. In the rural population along the shores of the Cesar River, a lot of too poor inhabitants suffered from a disease spread by mosquitoes, that left his skin dry and flaky, with patches of discoloration. I relate to these people with newborn whales, called vallenatos.So vallenatos became an offensive name given to the poor.The musicians, in their vast majority were poor, very visible by all the noise made and identified above all with the derogatory term vallenatos.One of the first known Bohemian musicians was the scruffy and the deceased, Antonio Buyones war.His image of mestizo peasant, with stained skin and under a big straw (vueltiao) hat, contributed to a caricature of long duration of the vallenato musician. A large number of writers of vallenato are considered poets and poets are national idols.And in the literary music is always at the forefront of any action, no matter how lovely is for dancing. Vallenato is to listen to.When a song has gained the weight of truth, everyone sings to the unison.What began as a ranchera music mestizo with peasant has been transformed to become one of the most popular musical rhythms of the country and of great importance in the continent. Country music, as it was known in its infancy the vallenato music, has been used as a term for a large majority of musicians in general. Vallenato with time music began to prevail in the informal meetings, concerts, fairs, festivals, SERENADES, dances and house parties and is the second national music after the cumbia.In its normal form a vallenato group consists of a set of guacharaca, caja vallenata and accordion.The most contemporary bands added electric bass, piano, additional percussion. The best vallenato musicians will include Diomedes Diaz, Lisandro Meza, Alfredo Gutierrez, Calixto Ochoa, mainly.Then in 1993 there was the phenomenon of the vallenato Carlos Vives and the classics of the province that helped greatly to publicize the genre vallenato worldwide. In the capital of Colombia can find them by checking in Google: Parrandas vallenato in Bogota or as groups vallenatos in Bogota