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Opus 4 is one of my favorites argentinian group.

They are from Buenos Aires, they began more than 35 years ago and have a nice voice.I'm sure that you can enjoy listening.

They sing different kind of music, our folklore, tangos, jazz... If you enter at their page stil you can watch any videos.
"Opus 4 Has righlly become one of the most important vocal groups in Argentina at present and has received world recognition in Americas, Europe and Asia's countries."

"Since it's creation in 1968, it's repertoire has tended to concentrate on the perfomance of popular music and music rooted in Argentinian, latin American's folk tradicion,spirituals, jazz and musicals."

Since 1987 they are toured very often across Europe, United State and they has had a very notable sucess.
Toward the end of 1990 Opus cuatro visit Japan and their debut is in Tekasaki's Festival. It's also gave a concert in Omaria Theatre, Tokio

The Opus Cuatro's members:
Alberto Hassan (1st tenor); Marcelo Basells (2nd tenor); ernando Irahola (baritone); Federico Galiana (bass)

"Damian Sanchez"

Another musician, composer and arrenger that I admire and I enjoy with his music when I can go listening in the theatre. I invit you to visit his site because you can listening amazing Latin American's music.
He have participated in different group like "Markama", "Canturías", "Los Trovadores","Coro de Regatas", andmore...
He travel many times across South America, Europe and North America.

"Marcama" (meaning “to the people” in Quechua's language)
Was born in Mendoza, Argentina during the first months of 1975.< With the aim of creating a new musical project concerned with the popular roots of Latin American soul, the musicians became united and impelled the use of an extraordinary variety of autochthonous instruments which are the expression of their identity.

That’s the way it happened. Markama has been, since its beginning, a group of singular characteristics.

The repertory can be classified in three parts.

"Anonymous pieces,
Pieces composed by contemporary Latin American composers and songwriters.
Original pieces composed by Markama’s musicians."

"Whoever may try to catalogue Markama as part of a certain style of music, will only get a single answer: It is a special affiliation to the music that spans the entire Andes, and by extension, the whole continent. It is nothing more."

"Markama does not intend to be identified with native music even though this is Markama’s main source of inspiration. Why? simply because the aim is to generate an aesthetic concept free of any restriction or settled rule."

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Enjoying music from all around the world...

Music is a good way to communicate our feeling and our culture.
Really is a non verbal and an intercultural language. Many times we listen music but we can't understand the letters because is unknown language for us but, we can catch the feeling that this song transmits and express..
I lived a very nice experience the last week, when we talk about music in the chat because I had the opportunity to know and still more important, listening music from China, Japan and Turkey.

I have discovered a famous Chinese female singers "Na Ying", and "A Mei"

Another Chinese student talked about some traditional instruments, one of then is "Ehru" and then we can saw the picture because the teacher put it in the whiteboard. It was the first time that I saw it.

I have learned about Enka", it's a kind of traditional japanese music. It's a sentimental popular music for the old people.
"Enka* is a Japanese popular song, in the "traditional" style. Enka music is composed largely in the Pentatonic scale, 5 notes per octave, similar to the scale used in Greek, Celtic , Gypsy, and some Eurasian music, and some modern blues and jazz music".

The musical genre known as enka**, which first appeared as we know it today in the early Twentieth Century, is considered by many to be the most “Japanese” of contemporary music (although its roots can likely be traced back to Korea and other parts of Asia, where similar genres still exist today). Not to be confused with traditional Japanese folk music, which dates back much further, enka songs are ballads that combine modern Western music with a distinctly Japanese flavor. Enka originated in Meiji era Japan during the early Nineteenth Century as a form of political activism. In 1874, Japan’s first political party was formed, yet party leaders weren’t allowed to speak in public, so they wrote songs and had singers go out in the street and sell copies.1 Enka is no longer primarily used as a tool for political activism, but this is thought to be the beginning of the lyrical form. The characters used to write the word “enka” literally mean “performance song”. The lyrical style is assumed to have developed from “waka,” a traditional form of Japanese poetry and folk song. Enka has the same poetic features of waka.

Ozlem, talked us about Turkish music.
She likes rock and pop music. She gave us the adress and we can know "Sertab Erener" and "Tarkan", they sing in English.

I will continue latter...

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