By José Gandue @Gandour
Dear reader: Surely, if you do not live in Colombia, will have an incomplete picture of Cali. No one is saying that what Netflix series or some local television programs say is false. But the story of the "Sultana of the Valley" is better and more happily completed by acknowledging that the music scene of a few decades ago was one of the most interesting on the continent and that, nowadays, with an effort that sometimes feels like an uphill battle, It feels as though the color and rhythm of that city is destined to return, to the delight of its inhabitants. In their latest video, one of the most entertaining bands on the Colombian music scene pays homage to Cali, the city that was for a long time the world capital of salsa, the one with a special, provocative, almost aphrodisiac aroma: The Mambanegra.
One recommendation before continuing: Take all necessary precautions and Always believe a gang led by a character who calls himself El Callegüeso. From him comes the idea of making a short film that tells a funny adventure involving small-time thugs, clumsy transvestites, an honorable devil, and a taxi driver who speeds through the streets of a daring, flavorful city with fascinating bright tones, with only one song on its soundtrack: The taste of guava.
The audiovisual product lasts eight minutes and forty-three seconds But they are experienced intensely and effectively serve to promote a great theme that gets everyone dancing. Callegüeso and his people have published a visual tribute to a time that must be recovered for the good of a great capital, which deserves to be highlighted for its high artistic level, its cultural diversity and the delicious poison contained in the blood of its most outstanding inhabitants. La Mambanegra manages to revive that saying that goes "Cali is Cali and the rest is hills", And she does it with grace, with style, and she'll make anyone's hips spin.