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Ceferina Banquéz

  • Name: Ceferina Banquéz
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  • Also known as: Ceferina Banquéz Teherán
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Biography: She was born in 1945 in Guamanga, in the Montes de María (Bolívar) region of the Caribbean. She is a composer and interpreter of all the airs of the bullerengue, belonging to a family of old singers. The bullerengue is one of the oldest canta’os dances performed by people descended from the maroon; It is a happy song that talks about life and how it goes by in everyday life, tells the daily chores and tells the little stories of the towns and their people. It begins with the intervention of the intonating voice, with the response of the choir and the drums. Ceferina narrates in her songs the ancestral practices, her daily life and the process of violence experienced in her town, since... Read More

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Title Release date
Female Singers. Memories of Life and Death in Colombia 2013-07-25