Наверное, Карлос Вивес - это самое легендарное имя в истории современной латинской музыки. По нескольким причинам. Во-первых, именно с него в 1993 году начался супербум испаноязычной поп-музыки, апогей которого пришелся где-то на первые годы нового тысячелетия. Точнее, со знаменитой La gota fria с первого альбома Clasicos de la provincia. Во-вторых ( Read more... )

Another vallenato-album from great Colombian. Very even, but with virtually no bright songs. Maybe «La fuerza del amor» и «Que tiene la noche». Also «El rock de mi pueblo» as a fusion of vallenato and rock-n-roll. There are no such powerful themes as «Fruta fresca», «La piragua» or «Papa dio» from his previous discs. Which makes it clear that those ( Read more... )

This is not the next album of great Colombian. The story is that Sony Music thought that after a Latin Grammy was given to Vives, people will have more interest to his work, and decided to issue a compilation of his very early and very awkward ballads. The official web-site of Carlos Vives does not mention anything about this album ( Read more... )