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To the singer-songwriter Andrés Cepeda, the growing interest of Dominicans in visiting their country, Colombia, and that there is a musical marriage between the two peoples, of which he is privileged because of the many times he usually sings in the Dominican Republic, seems “the greatest”. , as will happen next Friday the 28th at the Eduardo Brito National Theater.
“Colombians and Dominicans have a number of things in common.… And that they can come to the country and get to know our geography, see each other more closely, understand precisely what are those points that we have in common is very good and strengthens that relationship that has always existed between the two peoples,” said the singer-songwriter of “Used kisses” to Listín Diario.
Showing himself to be knowledgeable about the subject, over the phone, the singer-songwriter commented on the shared benefits: “That flavor, that miscegenation, that way of expressing himself, that joy that is part of the music that unites us.”
For many years, he added, Colombians “have enjoyed Dominican music, merengue, bachata, the different Dominican expressions, and that makes us feel very close culturally.”
Such is the cultural closeness that in Colombia “We don’t have a carnival or a party that we don’t have a Dominican artist that makes us dance merengue”.
Reunion
Cepeda is happy about the new reunion with the Dominicans, this time on the carpet of a symphony orchestra conducted by Amaury Sánchez.
“It will be a very nice show. We hope it will become a record project, hopefully next year, after having had the experience of doing it on stage many times,” she teased.
Andrés Cepeda has positioned himself as one of the most beloved interpreters in Colombia, and admired in the Dominican Republic.
“It is a great honor and a pleasure to be able to have that relationship that I have with the Dominican public and I am very grateful. It is a relationship that began a few years ago, particularly with the album Día tras Día” (year 2009), he stated.
The artist appreciated that “since that door was opened for me, we have been having a musical conversation that has led us through different projects that allow me to visit the island very frequently and that makes me have a very sincere affection for its audience and that they allow me to To continue arriving and to continue speaking with you through music is something a great privilege, it is something that I am very grateful for”.
Another side of Colombia
Andrés Cepeda is part of the group of artists who changed the negative image of Colombia.
“It is a very fortunate thing that our country is experiencing, having the possibility of being able to show that cultural, musical facet abroad is very important for us, so that the perception of our culture and our country moves away from those stereotypes and those stigmas of violence that have accompanied us at other times in history,” he explained.
He feels that there was not only an important change at the level of the artists in Colombia, but also among the people themselves “who, around the 90s, began to recognize their own cultural values and realize that the exaltation of those authentic values of our folklore, of our idiosyncrasy, of our culture, they were important and had to be represented”.
In this section of cultural promotion “I give a lot of credit to Carlos Vives because he was perhaps the artist who made other artists and the public realize how important it was to look within.”
On the subject, he elaborated: “That recognition and that inward look resulted in precisely the boom of that Colombian music that today, thank God, we continue to see and I hope that we will continue to see it for a while longer because I see that boys continue to emerge, young, talented people, committed to the same thing”.
However, he knows that “we still have serious problems to solve”, but now the world not only sees “one facet”, but “at least the country’s image has diversified and we don’t only look at the negative part”.
According to his comments, although Colombia’s sociopolitical problems “cannot be ignored and are things that continue to exist and a series of issues need to be resolved” the image that goes abroad motivates “the world to understand us better, to see us in a more positive way. We cannot cover the sun with one hand, but we can show that Colombia is not only the negative that it has known in other decades.”
His 50 years of life
The interpreter of “The best thing in my life” is soon to celebrate (on July 7) 50 years of life, a journey that he considers wonderful.
“It has been a wonderful life, it has been wonderful thanks to music, it has brought me a lot of energy, a lot of satisfaction, I think it makes me feel very young, full of vitality, I am very grateful to my job for that”.
The conclusion reached at this stage “is that you have to continue living life with all the desire possible” and that “there is still a lot to live for, there are many things to enjoy, you have to understand that passing through the planet is brief and you have to enjoy every moment”.
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