Guinness record with Venezuelan flavor: 414 musicians form the largest folk band in the world

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Pedro Pastor: Latin America inspires me “musically, humanly and poetically”

San Juan, Nov 9 (EFE).- The Spanish singer-songwriter Pedro Pastor assures in an interview with EFE that Latin America inspires him “musically, humanly and poetically”, in the midst of a tour of the region that has led him to perform for the first time time in Puerto Rico. “I love dance music, I love percussive music, I love music with rhythmic content and I think the Caribbean has all those variants and that’s why I like it so much,” said the singer-songwriter, son of the well-known musician Luis Pastor and nephew of Pedro Guerra. From his first stay in Puerto Rico, Pastor stressed that he is “very surprised” and that he would like to create a new Puerto Rican theme “only percussion and voice like the plena”, a musical genre that combines African, Taino and Spanish influences. After performing 15 concerts in six Latin American countries with the entire band, with his presentation last night at El Boricua in San Juan, he begins the second part of his tour, in which, together with guitarist Álvaro Navarro, he will tour Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. during the months of November and December. A TOUR TO DEEPER INTO CULTURES “I feel like it’s a totally different tour, the tour with the band is many dates in a few days,” said the artist from Madrid, adding that he hopes this second part of the tour will be much calmer because It will “allow us to delve deeper into the places, cultures and contexts” of each country. Pastor affirmed that what has impacted him the most about his second tour of Latin America is that “in these three years the project has developed on its own”, for which he is “very happy” to be able to reap the fruits he sowed on his first tour around the region in 2019. The artist mentioned that Colombia is his favorite country because it was the first he visited when he was 20 years old, the one he has visited the most and the one where he has developed the most as a musician. During the first part of the tour he was in Medellín and Bogotá and soon he will perform in Marinilla, Manizales, Pereira, Cali, Bucaramanga and Tunja. At 27 years old, the author of songs like “Los Olvidados” and “Sin Flor”, along with Rozalen, assured that he feels “infinitely grateful and privileged” to have been born in his house, surrounded by musicians. The singer-songwriter pointed out that “the miracle happens because my parents have granted me and my brothers all the freedom to decide who we were and who we wanted to be and what paths we wanted to take.” Regarding the influence that his family has had on his professional career, Pastor indicated that thanks to them he is the singer-songwriter he is and, above all, the person he is, which for him “is really the most important thing.” . “I have always been clear since I was 15 years old that I want to dedicate myself to this and I think that has also been a great advantage in my life, knowing from such a young age what my passion was, has allowed me to get 100% involved,” he added. the composer. “RAISE THE FIGHT FOR MEMORY” The young singer-songwriter has four albums behind him and, among his most outstanding songs, are “Los Olvidados”, “Vueltas”, “Mi Anarquía”, “Only the crazy ones live freedom” or ” Brave”. “‘Los Olvidados’ is the song that I am most proud of”, he highlighted on the theme in which he remembers the victims of the civil war and the dictatorship in Spain and which is included in his album “Vueltas”. The artist highlighted “the need for young people, not only in Spain but throughout the world, to raise the fight for memory, because memory brings with it justice, it brings with it reparation and in the end it brings with it harmony. “. In his opinion, the recent Democratic Memory Law in Spain “is poor” and, therefore, he demanded “compensate the victims, remove the bones from the mass graves and give them a decent burial.” “Until we do justice we will not be able to repair the polarization of our society,” Pastor stressed. “Societies are difficult to transform but I feel that the struggle is a responsibility, the responsibility that we have as human beings here on this earth is to be critical of the things that happen and contribute our thoughts and our actions towards the collective,” he said. (c) EFE Agency

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Guinness record with Venezuelan flavor: 414 musicians form the largest folk band in the world