Today’s Video: Carlos Vives @ "Peace Without Borders"

We continue this week’s video theme of Sunday’s Paz Sin Fronteras ("Peace Without Borders") concert with Carlos Vives. The Colombian singer was the first of the seven “chancellors of peace” to take the stage at the Simon Bolívar bridge along the Venezuela/Colombia border.

Vives’ heyday was in the 1990s when he fused pop and rock sounds to traditional Colombian vallenato music in songs like “La Tierra Del Olvido” and “La Gota Fria.” In the following clip he performs “La Hamaca Grande”, a tune steeped in the accordion sounds indicative of the vallenato.

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Sources- carlosvives.com, The Latin Americanist, Wikipedia, YouTube