''Magín Díaz y el Sexteto Gamerano'' is a double album by the Colombian musician and composer

Magín Díaz Magín Díaz García (30 December 1922 – 28 November 2017) was a Colombian musician and composer. He is best known for performing traditional music from the Caribbean coast of Colombia and for composing several popular songs. He is particularly ...

, and the backing band Sexteto Gamerano. The first disc was released on 29 October 2015, and the second on 1 November, both on

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Background

Magín Díaz is a Colombian musician and composer, best known for being the uncredited writer of "Rosa, que linda eres", a song about an unrequited love. Born into poverty, Díaz could not read or write, but was musically talented. When the melody of "Rosa" gained popularity, the song was covered by other Colombian artists, and it was credited to distant relative Irene Martínez, for legal reasons (whose version with Los Soneros de Gamero was released in 1983). During his life, Díaz spent time in Venezuela to perform with a band and to work on a construction site, but mostly lived in his hometown, Gamero, a small village near

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. In 2015, the manager of Chilean label Konn Recordings (now based in Colombia), Mauricio Sandoval (also known as DJ Subversivo and Mr. Toé), recorded a selection of Díaz's songs for the very first time. The double album, ''Magín Díaz y el Sexteto Gamerano'', was released the same year on Bandcamp. The traditional music is on the first disc, whilst remixes of his songs were on the second, encompassing a wide range of genres such as

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Track listing

Personnel

Adapted from the Bandcamp page. *Magín Díaz – vocalist *Filiberto Arrieta – secondary vocalist and chorus leader *Carlos Torres – alegre drum and chorus *Joaquin García – bass drums *Manuel Martinez – caller *Guillermo Valencia – secondary caller and musical arrangements *Enrique Díaz – guache and chorus *Germán Soto – guacharaca *Jorge Luís Pérez – choirs Production *Mauricio Sandoval – production * Diego Angulo – production assistant *Francisco Rojas – traditional disco *Tropikore – disco remixes

References

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