The music of Curacao runs the Caribbean, using its own local rhythms, along with copious quantities of son from Cuba, and music from Venezuela. It's sung in Papiamento, a local language that mixes Creole with Spanish.
The songs are funny, and the music familiar, bringing together sources that any...
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The music of Curacao runs the Caribbean, using its own local rhythms, along with copious quantities of son from Cuba, and music from Venezuela. It's sung in Papiamento, a local language that mixes Creole with Spanish.
The songs are funny, and the music familiar, bringing together sources that any fan of Afro Caribbean music would understand.
Recorded in the Willemstad studios of Horacio Hoyer and Thomas Henriquez, these songs were originally released in the 1950s on their respective Hoyer and Musika labels. All the songs are original compositions that capture many of the classic of this unique repertoire of the Dutch Antillean popular music from ten of the island's best groups of the day.
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