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On the Road to Find Out | Journeys in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay
I’m currently doing research for a feature on Totó La Momposina, who retired from performing last month at the age of 82, and found this fine response from photographer Nereo López in an oral biography of Gabriel García Márquez that was published online in the Paris Review . This is López talking about the Colombian contingent that accompanied García Márquez to Stockholm to collect his Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982:
We formed a delegation with the director of Colcultura in order to accompany the Nobel Laureate to Sweden. Singers like La Negra Grande and Toto, la Momposina; folk groups, a group from Barranquilla and a group from the Valle Province. There were 150 of us. They had told the vallenato musicians that Swedish girls went ape over Latin American men, so the guys went there ready, willing, and able to screw all the Swedish girls that crossed their paths. On the third day we said, “Hey, we haven’t gotten any cal
Man, I need to update this blog more. So many articles have been and gone, and perhaps not has as much love on here as they deserve.
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On the Road to Find Out | Journeys in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay