{"id":494,"date":"2020-05-16T23:03:17","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T23:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidredd.com\/music\/?page_id=494"},"modified":"2020-05-20T03:07:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T03:07:50","slug":"americas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.davidredd.com\/music\/non-english-international\/americas\/","title":{"rendered":"The Americas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\" id=\"turkish\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\" style=\"flex-basis:35%\">\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background has-large-font-size has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-very-light-gray-background-color\"><strong>Cuba<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davidredd.com\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ferrer.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-495\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ibrahim Ferrer:<em>&nbsp; Ibrahim Ferrer<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> As a featured singer in the Buena Vista Social Club (a collaboration of several old Cuban musicians from the days of Desi Arnaz), Ibrahim Ferrer later had the chance to shine in his great debut solo album of Cuban music, with both slow dance numbers and lively rhumbas, sung in his broad gleaming voice.\u00a0 Unlike the backroom live-recorded feel of the larger group&#8217;s work, Ferrer&#8217;s album is more polished but just as rich in rhythm and sound.\u00a0My favorite is his duet with Teresa Garc\u00eda Caturla called &#8220;Marieta&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ibrahim Ferrer - Marieta\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hVKE6ewPrY4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\" id=\"gitane\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\" style=\"flex-basis:35%\">\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background has-large-font-size has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-very-light-gray-background-color\"><strong>Mexico<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.davidredd.com\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/jesseyjoy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-496\" width=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidredd.com\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/jesseyjoy.jpg 425w, https:\/\/www.davidredd.com\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/jesseyjoy-300x297.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.davidredd.com\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/jesseyjoy-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jesse y Joy<\/strong>: <em><strong>\u00bfCon Qui\u00e9n Se Queda El Perro?<\/strong><\/em> (2011)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jesse &amp; Joy are a brother and sister duo from Mexico that have become very widely popular Spanish language stars. Their music is a mix of modern country and singer-writer ballads with elements of their Mexican roots occasionally mixed in. They both play and write, but it&#8217;s Joy&#8217;s strong clear voice that carries the very catchy songs.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\" id=\"german\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\" style=\"flex-basis:35%\">\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background has-large-font-size has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-very-light-gray-background-color\"><strong>Columbia<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"170\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davidredd.com\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/fijacion.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidredd.com\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/fijacion.jpg 170w, https:\/\/www.davidredd.com\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/fijacion-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Shakira: Fijacion Oral<\/strong> (2005)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;She made a name for herself abroad with English versions of her hits but I prefer to hear Shakira in her native Spanish, especially as it complements the driving Columbian beat of hits like the amazing &#8220;La Tortura&#8221;.&nbsp; However, most of her&nbsp;<em>Fijacion Oral&nbsp;<\/em>album is slower with very pleasing Europop-ballads&#8212;even opening up with lines of French that made me think that I&#8217;d gotten the wrong album at first&#8211;but it still has a bit more Latin flavor than it&#8217;s English companion album.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-very-light-gray-background-color has-very-dark-gray-color has-text-color has-background\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidredd.com\/musicpages\/\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Back to music pages<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuba Mexico Columbia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":407,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidredd.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidredd.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidredd.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidredd.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidredd.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidredd.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":641,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidredd.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/494\/revisions\/641"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidredd.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidredd.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}