''La Cucharita se me perdió'' is a song that hit the charts in
Colombia
Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...
during the early 1980s. The song is in the style of the traditional "''carranguera''" music native to the rural lands of central Colombia, a
folk music genre analogous to the "
bluegrass" music that is indigenous to the
U.S.The song's creator,
Jorge Velosa
Jorge Luis Velosa Ruiz, better known as Jorge Velosa (born October 6, 1949), is a Colombian veterinary physician singer-songwriter born in the small town of Ráquira in the Boyacá Department, widely famous in his country for being the creator of ...
, is famous within the country for this and other songs that became popular among the Colombian people.
The song tells the story of a man who loses his beloved spoon and hopes his friend gives him a spoon that is the same. Properly, the song tells the story of a farmer who visits the large urban Capital, and is pick-pocketed losing among other things the spoon. As such, the song reflected the culture shock experienced by many Colombians of the time who transitioned massively from the countryside to the big cities.
References
Colombian songs
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