14 days left to watch last week's part 2, on salsa, of the Beeb's four-part series on Latin Music USA. "Contains strong language", warns the caption, and indeed it does, from the founder of Fania Records, Italian-American Jerry Masucci, and his brother Alex, straight out of The Sopranos central casting.
Tonight we're off to the West Coast and Texas for the Mexican influence, featuring, you can be sure, plenty of Los Lobos. Here's David Hidalgo with Louie Perez in a studio take of La Pistola y El Corazon:
And here's a spot of cumbia from the boys live in Austin. Well yes, cumbia's from Colombia, not Mexico, but it's all good stuff. The real cumbia? Try this - but it's borderline nsfw: popular music from that part of the world inevitably comes intercut with bootie-shaking babes.
Very OT, but I've been waiting for this to get on YouTube for months now:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RNzdjCR03Y
Posted by: Dom | February 12, 2010 at 06:50 PM
OT certainly, but very fine.
Posted by: Mick H | February 12, 2010 at 10:07 PM
I was going to mention my favorite latin Youtube clip "Como De Que No" by Lydia Mendoza But it seems to have been withdraw, the dreaded terms of use violation. But as tomorrow is Valentines day could I recomend to your readers "Viens mon amour" by Abeti my favorite female singer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIRDv6neImQ&feature=related
Posted by: sheddie | February 13, 2010 at 01:38 PM