October, 2008Life can change in a heartbeat .. A Un Tris
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The other day Dow Jones Industrials hit the low of 8,577 . To me that was truely amazing
See, my first job out of college, more than ten years ago was as a reconciliation accountant for a company in San Jose California. The city of San Jose and The San Jose Mercury News were trying to sell San Jose as the financial center of the Silicon Valley. In order to give that impression they had placed a huge automated ticker, the size of a house, on a street corner in Downtown San Jose. The giant ticker would reporduce the Dow Jow Index live. So everytime I would walk to the parking lot I would pass by the giant autmated ticker seeing for myself the latest "height" achieved by the Dow Jones Index. Those were the days of e*trade and the dot com boom. I remember the Dow had gone way past 11,000 and we are talking over a decade ago!!!!! So to think that it is now, ten years later at 8577 just shows how fragile and volatile life is!! Life can change in a heartbeat. No use trying to force find security and assurance in this life. By the way the real financial heart of silicon valley is Sand Hill Road and the venture capitalist firms like Sequoia Capital ( Don Valentine ). Life being fragile and changeable at an instant is similar to the lyrics of a spanish language song called A Un Tris . The songwriter and performer is a mexican artist called Denise De Kalafe (sometimes also Denisse De Kalafe ). As you will read, an unexpected amuzing life changing event happened to her too. She is actually brazilian and started around 1967 in Brazil singing songs like " Cantiga De Jesuino " .
Then she had a big portugues language hit with Guerra . She sounded like a mod late 60s hippy beat artist. The song was part of a semi sleazy movies soundtrack. With nudity and all. Then she had a hit with Cancao Latina which was adapted to Spanish as Cancion latina .
This took her to Venezuela. Remember Venezuelan's were really rich and wealthy in the 60s and 70s. There she made at least one album as you see above in 1969. Then she moved to Mexico and continued her career there.
I think it was 1978 when she won the OTI festival in Chile . Fast forward in 1988 she realesed an album called Luz Azul ( LuzAzul ) or Blue light.
This would be her last album for decades until her recent come back. This is the album that contains "A un Tris ( in a heartbeat) " . I didn't like most of her other material but really loved this album. So I wondered why it had been her last album. Well, the story is funny . Apparently as part of the promotion of the album she had a concert scheduled in MIAMI. But then some fanatic cuban expats did some research finding out that the poor woman had performed "a" live concert in Fidel Castro's Cuba. Like, big deal!!! So the expats made bomb threats and other threats until the concert promoter decided to cancel her show. Obviously latino radio in Miami stoped playing De Kalafe because they were afraid of being banned or threatened. One thing led to another and the woman was dropped altogether by her record company EMI. Read the story in the New York Times . Simply Amazing. Regarding the song "A un Tris" I just regret that the lyrics places the fragility and volatility of life in the context of love and couples. I see this too many times in pop songs. Why does everything have to be placed in the context of boyfriend / girlfriend or love? There is life apart from ones relationships. Anyway, I think the song is more about life itself and she probably adapted the concept more towards a relationship to make it more radio friendly. I bought the album, here is the back sleeve:
Listen to an incomplete sound sample of A Un Tris . [Español] Aqui una muestra INCOMPLETA para demostracion de la cancion. Solo se puede escuchar Online y no se puede b-jar:
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