Cartagena la fantastica de carlos vives biography

Falling in love with the majestic Cartagena de Indias is inevitable, because those who visit the city are fascinated and are always tempted to stay; those who inhabit it, admire it; those who do not know it, crave it; and those who part, never forget about it. That is why several songs have been written about this city.

Arabella, artistic name of singer from Bogotá Margarita Pinillos, was right. When she recorded in 1974 the song “Callecitas de Cartagena”, the love and magic she felt for the city gave her the inspiration to write songs, verses and poems about La Heroica with great passion.Writers, poets, composers, singers, all of them make Cartagena their source of inspiration. Incredible pieces and unforgettable musical themes, from ballads, salsa themes, “décimas”, vallenatos, cumbias and even champeta, the local rhythm that persuades more than one, especially the foreigners.

To famous singers and composers, among them Carlos Vives, Checo Acosta, Arabella, Claudia de Colombia, Juan Carlos Coronel, Marco Rayo, Kevin Flórez, Jaime R. Echeverría, Leonidas Otálora, Adolfo Mejía, Petrona Martínez, Jesús David Quintana, and local artists like the famous Joe Arroyo -R.I.P.-, La Heroica has always "seduced" them with its cha

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