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| Yo le doy muchas gracias a Dios por el don que me dio de... de poder cantar |
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| I give a lot of thanks to God for the gift that he gave me of... of being able to sing |
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| desde muy pequeño, desde muy niño. |
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| since [I was] very small, since [I was] very young. |
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| El... Mis primeros años de vida, |
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| The... My first years of life, |
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| los primeros diez años de vida yo los viví, eh, en Cali. |
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| the first ten years of life, I lived them, um, in Cali. |
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| Y... y la influencia que... que... que tuvo la música colombiana, |
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| And... and the influence that... that... that Colombian music had, |
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| digamos de acá, más cercano a lo... a lo andino, |
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| let's say from here, closer to the... to the Andean style, |
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| eh, lógicamente que fue importante. |
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| um, logically, it was important. |
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| Y yo creo que si me hubiese quedado viviendo, eh, acá en Cali, |
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| And, I believe that if I had stayed living, um, here in Cali, |
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| hubiese terminado digamos de hacer mi... mi vida, |
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| I had ended up, let's say, making my... my life [here], |
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| en este momento estaría... |
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| at this moment I would be... |
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| de seguro, de seguro que sería reconocido en el Mono Núñez. |
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| for sure, for sure I would be recognized at the "Mono Núñez" [Festival]. |
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| Because I, to your neck of the woods |
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| Y con el alma enferma de tanto padecer |
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| And with my soul sick from so much suffering |
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| Es que la lucha hoy en día es para que nuestra música colombiana sea nuestra bandera. |
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| The thing is that the struggle today is for our Colombian music to be our flag. |
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| Porque es que lo hemos ido perdiendo. |
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| Because the thing is that we have been losing it. |
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| The radio stations nowadays |
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| no están poniendo la música colombiana, ellos debían... |
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| are not playing Colombian music. They should... |
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| Creo que existe una ley que dice que debe ser cincuenta y cincuenta. |
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| I believe that there's a law that says that it should be fifty-fifty. |
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| Pero no, usted pone ahorita el dial de su radio |
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| But no, you turn on right now the dial on your radio |
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| y no va a encontrar una música colombiana, |
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| and, you are not going to find Colombian music; |
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| no va a encontrar un bambuco, que no va a encontrar un pasillo. |
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| you're not going to find a bambuco, you're not going to find a pasillo. |
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| Quise vivir la experiencia de venir al Mono Núñez, |
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| I wanted to live the experience of coming to the Mono Núñez, |
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| eh, buscando un objetivo concreto. |
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| um, searching for a concrete objective. |
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| Y es que me ha llamado mucho la... la atención comparar, |
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| And the thing is, it has really caught my... my attention to compare, |
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| eh, la forma como cantan, como interpretan nuestras cantadoras del Pacífico, |
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| um, the way that they sing, how our singers from the Pacific perform it |
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| y cómo se hace, eh... eh, voces en la música andina. |
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| and how it's done, um... um, [the] voices in Andean music. |
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| Y realmente pues, eh, hay mucha más perfección en la música andina |
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| And really, well, um, there's much more perfection in Andean music |
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| que la que uno encuentra en las... en nuestras voces del Pacífico, |
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| than what one finds in the... in our Pacific voices, |
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| especialmente, las más tradicionales. |
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| especially, the more traditional ones. |
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| ...ese día, hermano de hombre y semilla |
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| ...that day, brother of men and seed |
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| Murió mirando la vida que entre sus manos moría |
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| He died looking at the life that in his hands was dying |
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| Ay, ay, ay, ay, que entre sus manos moría |
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| Ay, ay, ay, ay, that in his hands was dying |
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| Ay ay ay ay... -Eh, bambuco, bambuco viejo... |
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| Ay, ay, ay, ay... -Uh, bambuco, old bambuco... |
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| Bueno, ahí... ahí está el otro... el otro objetivo y la otra búsqueda. |
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| Well, there... there is the other... the other objective and the other search. |
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| Pues realmente, el... lo que me interesa es |
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| Well, really, the... what interests me is, |
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| más que... que encontrar si es negro, si es indígena, |
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| more than... than finding out if it's black, if it's indigenous, |
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| si es del Pacífico, si es de la zona Andina... |
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| if it's from the Pacific, if it's from the Andean zone... |
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| lo que me interesa es cómo hacemos para que nos encontremos, |
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| what interests me is how we do [it] so that we come together, |
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| para que nos encontremos musicalmente en lo que expresamos. |
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| so that we come together musically in what we express. |
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