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Salsa Songs for 2024 Election Blues


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I feel it’s becoming to complete election week (within the US and Puerto Rico) with a few Salsa songs about elections!
Typically, particularly if our candidate didn’t win the election, we really feel a bit blue concerning the final result and the long run. These songs could present some empathy to how you could be feeling.

Déjenme Reír (Para No Llorar) – (1980)

It is smart to get us began with a track by Rubén Blades. A lawyer and previous presidential candidate (in Panama), Ruben captured the individuals’s feeling about elections on this track which was a part of the Maestra Vida double albums (1980).

In addition to the incredible lyrics, the track was organized by utilizing the Puerto Rican rhythms of Bomba and Plena.

Plena, specifically, is a rhythm that has been utilized in political actions in Puerto Rico relationship again to the early twentieth century.

The mixture of nice lyrics with an amazing and becoming association make this an ideal track for election blues.

Si Yo Fuera Presidente (1972)

Eight yr earlier than Maestra Vida was launched, Frankie Dante launched a track referred to as “Si Yo Fuera Presidente“, which was a part of the album “Frankie Dante y Orquesta Flamboyán con Larry Harlow” (1972).

This track carried a extra radical message of all of the issues that may be fastened (did he miss world starvation?) if he have been elected president.

Pablo Pueblo (1977)

Maybe the track that broke in “social themes” to Salsa, Ruben BladesPablo Pueblo is a bonus track on this weblog as it’s not significantly about elections. It’s a blue track that describes the agony and frustrations of a standard poor or decrease center class man attempting to help his household.

Among the many frustrations expressed within the track, is the truth that elections don’t appear to assist to enhance his scenario, as within the “soneo”, “votando en las elecciones, pa’ después comerse un clavo”.

One other nice association by the maestro Luis “Perico” Ortiz.

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