Blog N°7: Music

Hi everyone! I hope you are well 

Today is 25 of July the African American, Afro-Caribbean and Diaspora Women's Day and is for this reason that in the blog of this week, about music, I writing about one of my group’s favourite of music afro, call Aluna Tambo (I likes the genres of music of root afro like as jazz, but also I like the folk music, because for me is very important keep and know part of our origins ).  They are a group afroariqueño (Yes, in Chile there have always been and there are people of African descent!) of women’s that by the music, like as a resource of fight, defend the memory and identity afro.

They are have many songs that I like, both for its rhythm (it is impossible not to feel like dancing its tumbe* c:) as for its lyrics and some are: “Tumbe sanador”,  “Tambor de vientre” and “Al despertar”.I want to share one of their songs, on that occasion they performe at a festival that takes place in Arica .But they also have performed in different parts of the country and at international festivals, they are very cool <3

Finally I want to mention that the tumbe is a dance and music that originates in the year 2000-2001 in Arica as a way of rescuing the memory and identity of our Afro-descendant great-grandparents and great-grandmothers and as a political tool to vindicate our people who have historically been denied and invisible by the Chilean.

Bye, take Care ! <3