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    Vallenato (Latin American Spanish pronunciation: [baʝeˈnato]), is a popular folk music genre from Colombia. It primarily comes from its Caribbean region...
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    Diomedes Díaz Maestre (26 May 1957 – 22 December 2013) was a Colombian vallenato singer, songwriter, and composer. His nickname, "El Cacique de la Junta"...
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  • Vallenato-salsa is a style of salsa music associated with Colombia. It is a combination of vallenato and salsa, and its most popular exponents are accordionists...
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    The Vallenato Legend Festival (Spanish: Festival de la Leyenda Vallenata) is one of the most important musical festivals in Colombia. The festival features...
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    over 1,025 folk rhythms. Some of the best known genres are cumbia and vallenato. The most recognized interpreters of traditional Caribbean and Afrocolombian...
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    Patricia Teherán Romero (category Vallenato musicians)
    composer, considered the most important female vocalist in the history of vallenato. In 1988, she was discovered by Graciela Ceballos, who invited her to...
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    (1960) Vol. 2 (1962) Para bailar (1964) Playas marinas (1966) El Salvador vallenato (1968) La laguna sabanera (1970) Cumbias con mariachi (1971) La bicicleta...
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    for his interpretation of traditional music styles of Colombia such as vallenato, cumbia, champeta, bambuco and porro as well as genres such as Latin pop...
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  • Binomio de Oro de América (category Vallenato musical groups)
    Binomio de Oro de América is a Colombian Vallenato group that was founded by lead singer Rafael Orozco and accordionist Israel Romero in the Caribbean...
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    hardcore punk singer; Madball lead singer Diomedes Díaz, vallenato singer Martín Elías, vallenato singer Gabriel García Márquez, novelist, journalist and...
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    Valledupar is notable as the cradle of vallenato music, representative of the Colombian culture. The city hosts the Vallenato Legend Festival. During the 1980s...
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    Silvestre Dangond (category Vallenato musicians)
    Freddy Carrillo. It was during this time that he met his friend and also vallenato singer Kaleth Morales. By pure coincidence and through friend in common...
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    Jorge Celedón (category Vallenato musicians)
    is a Colombian musician and singer of vallenato music. Celedón was one of the backup singers for the vallenato group Binomio de Oro de America who joined...
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    Rafael Orozco Maestre (category Vallenato musicians)
    Orozco Maestre (March 24, 1954 – June 11, 1992) was a Colombian singer of vallenato music. He was one of the major representatives of Colombian popular folk...
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  • cultural and musical events of Colombia, the Vallenato Legend Festival, which promoted her beloved Vallenato music. She was kidnapped by the FARC on 24...
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    Children of Vallenato (Spanish: Los niños del vallenato) is a vallenato musical group of children. The group was created by the Vallenato Legend Festival...
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  • En Blanco" (Blank Sheet) Song originally recorded by Los Diablitos del Vallenato in 1997, it belongs to the album called "Nace del Alma". It was written...
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    example: chamamé in Argentina; gaucho, forró, and sertanejo in Brazil; vallenato in Colombia; merengue in the Dominican Republic; and norteño in Mexico)...
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  • Leandro Díaz (composer) (category Vallenato musicians)
    2013) was a Colombian vallenato music composer. He is mostly known for his ability to compose very descriptive and narrative vallenato songs despite his blindness...
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  • traditional musical forms of the Caribbean Region of Colombia, mainly vallenato, with foreign Latin genres such as salsa and merengue, and pop and pop...
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    Jean Carlos Centeno (category Vallenato musicians)
    Colombian-Venezuelan singer and composer of vallenato, bolero and salsa. Centeno gained fame as singer and composer for the vallenato group Binomio de Oro de America...
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    Kaleth Morales (category Vallenato musicians)
    2005) was a Colombian vallenato singer and songwriter, best known as the leader of the "Nueva Ola" ("New Wave") movement in Vallenato, having released singles...
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  • Martín Elías (category Vallenato musicians)
    Colombian vallenato singer and entrepreneur, son of the singer and composer Diomedes Díaz. He was considered a pioneer of the 'new wave' of vallenato music...
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    the Colombo American Chamber of Commerce Alejandro Palacio, singer of vallenato music Arturo Reyes, football coach Aldo Leão Ramírez, professional footballer...
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  • traditional musician from Newfoundland Alejo Durán (1919–1989) – Colombian Vallenato accordionist, singer, composer Finbarr Dwyer (1946–2014) – Irish traditional...
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  • Barrio plays tropical-style Latin music including pop, urban, cumbia and vallenato. https://www.allmusic.com/artist/chicos-de-barrio-mn0000776384/biography...
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    folk rock Medieval metal Muiñeira Neofolk Nerd-folk Psychedelic folk Freak folk New Weird America Progressive folk Raï Skiffle Tamang Selo Vallenato Xẩm...
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    cultural” (cultural practice).Cumbia is an “umbrella term” and much like vallenato there are many subcategories. The subcategories are many like music, dance...
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  • juglar (roughly translated, jester or minstrel), a traditional player of Vallenato, a traditional Colombian genre of music. It is generally acknowledged...
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  • Charanga-vallenata is a style of Latin music that combines conjunto, charanga and vallenato-style accordion. It is essentially Cumbia performed at double its normal...
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