The boss, as some artists call Carlos Vives, has released a new album, the tenth in his studio career and with which he hopes to have the same success as his recent works.
DO YOU LIVE arrives with absolute freedom, with the wings of an artist who has more than 25 years of career, 11 Latin Grammys, 2 Grammys and hundreds of international awards. The quintessential ambassador of the rock of the Colombian people, a rock with musical patterns based on vallenato and cumbia, the joint and the roots of the Caribbean that make millions of people around the world recognize the accordion, the electric guitar, the drum and bagpipe in the same song.
“I am an artist of the old school, I like albums that are complete, that touch on different topics and the Colombian rhythm is very rich, it fits very well with the new sounds. DO YOU LIVE It is an album that explores ballads, rap, children’s music, new urban sounds and pure vallenato”. Carlos Vives
When entering the track list you will find songs like:
«Alejo’s hat». It is a vallenato that preserves the purity in its lyrics, the reason for being of the genre. He is rebellious and hopeful.
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«Monsieur Mustache». This is a song in which Elena and Pedro Vives, his youngest children, accompany Carlos along with the choir of the Río Grande music school. «It’s a song that several children made, it escaped from the kitchen of the house, jumped into the pantry and fled through a window to be on this album,» says the artist.
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«We are all Mexico.» This song was composed by Carlos Vives more than a year ago together with Carlos Gardel Huertas as a tribute to Mexican culture and its influence in the world. It is a tribute from a Colombian to a country, a land, a culture, a people who inhabit a wonderful territory and who have a very big heart.
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“I like everything”, with Thalía. Carlos says of this song: «I like everything… And I like it even more because it has Thalía on board, it’s a happy and sensual song, like her, what happiness to be able to sing to such a special woman and artist.»
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“The forgotten children”, with Cinthya Montaño. This song is a very significant moment of the album, musically surprising and with tremendous content to understand what is happening with our children, not only in Colombia but in Latin America and in the world. It is a prayer, a kind of mantra or forgiveness ritual to change many things that should not happen.
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«The woman in the window». The song is born from a photograph published in the press and reveals thousands of stories of battered women, something that Carlos opposes with all the strength of his song. It is a song to change behaviors and think about honest love towards women.
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«Today I have time.» An impressive rhythm, a true musical bomb that will undoubtedly sound… The song is a spectacular combination of vallenato, mambo and rock, which revives the experience of those emblematic songs of an era, which mark the steps of an entire generation to get to life all the joy and to be eternally young.
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«The promised land». Carlos wants to tell us in this joint all his love for this land, his love for the people and for singing the rock of his people. A trip around the world only to realize that «in the end, the Sierra only surrenders to the sea…».
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«Morning». A song with a deep nostalgia for the return to what is dearest, a way of leaving and always coming back. It is a ballad in the best style of Carlos Vives, which will undoubtedly be the soundtrack of many lives.
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In addition to these titles, there are also the diverse and emblematic songs that Carlos Vives has accustomed us to and that enrich our life experience in unexpected ways. Because LIVES is, quite simply, LIVES.
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