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I Got Love (feat. Nate Dogg)

I Got Love (feat. Nate Dogg) [Extended Mix]

Posiblemente con el grupo Madora. Dato no confirmado. 

Luis Dias - Song Buloya

music & lyrics by Mary Spencer Knapp
Produced by Oliver Ignatius
Mary Knapp - vocals, accordion, piano
Tyler Kaneshiro - trumpet
Doug Berns - bass
Javier Ramos - drums
Oliver Ignatius - guitar

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Her album Anacaona is dedicated to a legendary Taino queen. Musically, Irka Mateo uses elements from the mestizo culture that is present in her homeland, which includes indigenous Taino, Spanish and African melodies and rhythms. With her captivating vocals, she elegantly blends Dominican folk with Brazilian jazz, boleros, echoes of Cuban Nueva Trova and Native American-style chanting and even a new genre she calls neo-Taino music. With Anacaona, Irka Mateo emerges as an inspired and passionate advocate for the popularization and preservation of Dominican native culture. World Music Central

Anacaona

Liborio

Irka’s music— rooted in the past—reveals our essence and lights the road to our future— Avelino Stanley, Former Vice Minister of Culture, Dominican Republic.

Irka Mateo is a global citizen, singer-songwriter, and Grammy Foundation supported folk music researcher. She traveled for ten years (1997-2007) in the rural areas of the Dominican Republic documenting more than thirteen genres of folk musical traditions — unknown in the wider Dominican culture and beyond and creating a Dominican folk music archive.  During this time she introduced the accordion into the Dominican/Latin alternative scene, brought to light the ‘Comarca,’ a wholly unknown genre outside of the countryside, and was the first woman to play traditional percussion in urban settings. From 1985 to 1996 she was one of the pioneers of the Dominican alternative music with Irka &Tadeu and Irka con Bohuti, renowned groups and essential reference of Dominican alternative music.

Currently, she writes “Mestizo Music,” Accordion and guitar-lead songs inspired by the indigenous/ Afro/ European folk traditions of her native country, as well as the wider Caribbean and Latin America. Her artistic endeavor expands the boundaries of Dominican music while building bridges to Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and the United States. Irka is also a lyricist who writes poetic lyrics to tell the stories of the Dominican people and those of other cultures, delivering songs of love and life. Her current album “Vamo a Goza” is an example of her style. It’s an album that fills the room with joy, dance, and musical enchantment.

Liborio

Irka Mateo

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