NY Times: Rafael Escalona, Colombian Folk Balladeer, Dies at 81
"... Escalona, who absorbed the ways and wisdom of wandering troubadours ... inspired the novelist Gabriel García Márquez ... a singer of vallenato, the folk music of Colombia’s remote Caribbean region ... [which] goes back to the time when news, gossip and legends were passed by traveling minstrels. ... Escalona was a longtime friend of Mr. García Márquez, who once told Mr. Escalona that his novel 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' was nothing more than a 400-page vallenato."
16 years ago
No comments:
Post a Comment