Music in Puerto Rico

tonie0750 wrote:

Rey, I like your selection of music. I am with you. I love me some Salsa especially old time Salsa like Palmieri, Puente, Bobby Rodriguez, Joe Quijano, and of course Ricardo Ray and Willie Colon and Hector Labor.

One you are here, you'll have to come over. I have a pretty good collection of old LPs and some great CDs if the best music in the world. I am totally old school and don't like most bachata and raggeton. Give me a good salsa, cha cha and bolero any time

This is good that you mention a lot of names I forgotten while living in the mainland with little or no contact with my culture. I will go thru the list and add any missing from my iPnone.
Glad you dance while doing your chores. I walk at lunch from 2 to 4 miles everyday in summer and listen to my music. I am still figuring out how to use the treadmills during the weekends and dance to the music at the same time. Don't have it down yet.

Rey,

There is nothing like the old Salsa, music with feelings and meanings, music that call your soul......

check out this new song by Victor Manuel...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfZ0B9mki9M

adlin20 wrote:

Rey,

There is nothing like the old Salsa, music with feelings and meanings, music that call your soul......

check out this new song by Victor Manuel...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfZ0B9mki9M

Very sad song, good but sad. I don't want to think of being that old.
But by the same token, that is why I want to retire before it is too late and my mind and body are not well and y can no longer enjoy life.
I can still do the Plena, Pachanga, Salsa and Reagetton. I hope that I always will. After all I promised myself that I will last to 300. By then my wrinkles will have wrinkles of their own.
Besides I would love to get 200+ years of Social security from the government, that will show them!!!!!

My feelings exactly. I want to be able to enjoy my retiment relatively young and healthy.

On a sad note, Raphy Lewit died today in Miami. We lost another great compositor from the old school.

adlin20 wrote:

My feelings exactly. I want to be able to enjoy my retiment relatively young and healthy.

On a sad note, Raphy Lewit died today in Miami. We lost another great compositor from the old school.

That is very sad, here is a link that is very appropriate as it is him singing about death "La Cuna Blanca": - youtube.com/watch?v=tilHIrCavDk

I do not recall who he was dedicating the song to but I believe it was another performer that died in a place crash, but not sure.

For those with an interest of his life http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphy_Leavitt

His music took me to one of the best times in my life...my younger years in "la playa de Ponce". I remember listening to his music as well as Hector Lavoe, Willy Colon, Ruben Blades.....sneaking into my uncle house, he had a collection of LPs and I used to blast the music with my cousin drinking cheap beer and looking at his porn collection!!! Once uncle get home from work it was hell to pay!!! 

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Best of luck,
Bhavna

Anyone interested in learning to play the ukulele?  It is easy to get started---I can have you playing a song the first time you try.  Then we can sing our hearts out.  The emphasis would be on FUN. We could a get ready to parranda during the Christmas season.   I have some extra ukes.   I live in Humacao, but if we are really ambitious, the West Coast folks could meet up with us somewhere in the middle for a ukulele flash mob.
Peace, love and ukuleles,
Carroll

Rey, have you tried Zumba yet? You can really dance up a storm with that. It can be a little demanding but you can always take your time. I went to a class in Florida with my daughter in law and it was a lot of fun and now she is a certified instructor.

I know that they have some classes all over the island but ai haven't gotten there yet. Even in our town there was one.

Also good is Jazzzercise but ai haven't seen that here. Take note that men also do that and Zumba.

Good luck with your dancing. I dance even to commercials!!!!

My wife does Zumba twice a week at the local gym. I am not ashamed to say it kick my but.......

tonie064 wrote:

Rey, have you tried Zumba yet? You can really dance up a storm with that. It can be a little demanding but you can always take your time. I went to a class in Florida with my daughter in law and it was a lot of fun and now she is a certified instructor.

I know that they have some classes all over the island but ai haven't gotten there yet. Even in our town there was one.

Also good is Jazzzercise but ai haven't seen that here. Take note that men also do that and Zumba.

Good luck with your dancing. I dance even to commercials!!!!

We have a Zumba exercise set of DVDs, I am trying to get the wife to do her workout with that but she is used to the other workouts and have not tried it.as for me I remember some and can still dance but I should use it too s she does not end up kicking my bud.

Great thread. I am a musician (bass / drums / vocals) so obv music is a passion of mine. I saw lots of live music in Boqueron over the last 2 years of testing the island to see if I wanted to relo. SUBSCRIBED

BABY J wrote:

Great thread. I am a musician (bass / drums / vocals) so obv music is a passion of mine. I saw lots of live music in Boqueron over the last 2 years of testing the island to see if I wanted to relo. SUBSCRIBED

Well we had fun remembering and re-listening to some of those songs again. Glad you enjoyed it.

Welcome to the group baby j!!!

There are plenty of local bands that perform around the island, specially during the weekend. the brother of my brother in law wife (try to say that 10 times!) is part of grupo soliz, they are a local band from my town and they are always doing a gig some where in the island.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRTtOKURNrg

Hello music lovers,
I need your  help.  I want to learn some traditional Puerto Rican Christmas songs so we can have a parranda this holiday season.  Of course, you are all invited to sing, pluck, beat and dance along. Can you give me some names of songs? If you know where I can find  the words and chords, that would be great.
Peace, love and ukulele.

To get you started FrogRock, try this link. You should be able to find the words with a search but I can look if you have no luck.
http://www.musicadepuertorico.com/engli … naldos.htm

Also try to find sheet music at instrument/music stores, it has the words and the entire song to follow on your instrument.
Two sticks, a cow bell, a guiro, and something like a cuatro or guitar, and some pots, and we are in Business!!!!!!!

For great success (measured in good free food and free booze), we have to bang loud, sing off key, and make a few mistakes in the words.
Remember, if you don't get them off their beds, you get no food and no Booze.
Wrong words comes naturally after a few days of no sleep and lots of booze. 
That is how we celebrate in PR.!!!!!

Assuming the neiborgs don't send their dogs after us, we will have great success.

Thanks for the link.  Singing off-key comes naturally for me.  We will have to set up some practice sessions.