ADSactly Music: Music to miss a country
Music to miss a country
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Those who left, did so in search of better opportunities, but even so they do not cease to wonder, to wish to be here with their own. We all know that moving to another country can be overwhelming, particularly if you don't speak the language, and sometimes homesickness can have symptoms similar to depression. According to these friends, anything can trigger homesickness: a smell, a taste, and even a color, a sound. They see a picture or hear a familiar sound and immediately it goes straight to their heart.
In that conversation, we talk about how they miss food, for example, or how they have reacted to Venezuelan music when they hear our songs or singers out there. Many of those who have left are young people, who are by nature detached from things, so they wouldn't necessarily have to like native music. However, they proudly affirm that despite adversities, good music is being made in Venezuela.
Beyond the well-known artists who sound insistently, in our country have come talents like Alejandro Ghersi, known internationally for his electronic project Arca and for being producer of Björk and Kanye West. Also the rock band La vida bohème that was the cover of Spin magazine, or the rock band, Charlie Papa or Viniloversus. But if there is one song that makes them shudder and move them to tears, it is the national anthem. Before the hymn, Venezuelans feel not only pride, but also sadness and longing.
That's why I wanted to bring the Venezuelan songs that by their lyrics, rooted in the population, cause nostalgia, loneliness, but also joy and hope for our brothers who are outside. These songs, many of them old, are known because they have entered the conscience and the veins of the Venezuelan and to listen to them is to remember a country that waits for them and misses them. Let's listen to some of them:
In this country (María Teresa Chacín)
This song, written by the famous Venezuelan singer-songwriter Chelique Sarabia and immortalized in the voice of María Teresa Chacín, speaks of the goodness of Venezuela and Venezuelans. In it, we hear that Venezuela is sea, mountain range, mountain, plain, but especially, Venezuela is its people. A good people that works and struggles to get ahead.
Llanerísima (Luis Silva)
This song written by Nelson Laya and famous in the voice of Luis Silva is another song that speaks of the goodness of Venezuela, specifically the Venezuelan plain. It also speaks of great characters such as Simón Bolívar, Simón Díaz, Florentino (the one who spoke to the devil), as a tribute, but also as a way to highlight the role that these people have played in our history and how we should follow the example of each one of them.
Sea of my hope (Hernán Marín)
This beautiful song was written by Luis Cruz and the singer Hernán Marín. Its lyrics speak of the journey that someone undertakes and may never return again. With a symbology of the sea, the fish and the angler, he tells us of someone who was trapped, in love, taken with him, but who must leave in order to forget. There are many who see in the lyrics of this song an allegory of the departure that many Venezuelans have made. A farewell with no hope of return.
Soul of the Llanera
This song is considered Venezuela's second anthem. The author of the lyrics of this piece is Rafael Bolívar Coronado and the musicalization is an adaptation by Maestro Pedro Elías Gutiérrez (Director of the Martial Band of Caracas) of the waltz "Marisela" by Sebastián Díaz Peña (first part of Alma Llanera), and the waltz "Mita" by the composer Jan Gerard Palm (second part of Alma Llanera). Among the international artists who have performed it are: Gilberto Santa Rosa, Julio Iglesias, Pedro Fernández, Plácido Domingo, Jorge Negrete and the National Philharmonic Orchestra. On the other hand, they are among the national artists: Alfredo Sadel, Aldemaro Romero, Juan Vicente Torrealba, and of course, Simón Díaz who sings the version I shared with you. Although it may seem illogical, this piece is usually used to end any party or important event.
Venezuela
As a result of the Venezuelan diaspora, the song Venezuela has become more popular and is sung by the millions of Venezuelans who walk the world. Although some already recognize this song as the second hymn, let's say it's the third so as not to take the place of Alma Llanera. A curious fact about this song is that it was not written by Venezuelans but by two Spaniards: Pablo Herrero and José Luís Armenteros, and that although they managed to capture the essence of Venezuela in this song, they had never set foot on Venezuelan soil and only knew it by reference and reading. The second part of this song is perhaps the most moving part: it speaks of those who have left the country and take with them the memories that "will make the road shorter. In the end he expresses a great desire: when death arrives, to be buried in Venezuela.
When we are far from our country of origin, it is normal that we can feel sad, alone and with longing. We miss home, family, friends, country. So we seek to catch, to have, things that bring us closer to those things we have far away. We taste a familiar meal and remember. We perceive a familiar smell and remember. We listen to a song and associate it with lived experiences and people we know. I once read somewhere that: "We are only ghosts, we live wandering in the land of memories". Maybe our body is somewhere remote and unknown, but our soul and our heart will always be where we were happy.
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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCE
https://www.analitica.com/entretenimiento/la-verdadera-historia-del-alma-llanera/
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If while remaining in Venezuela, we are overcome with nostalgia and sadness for the country's destiny, and when we listen to musical pieces like the ones you offer us in your post, those feelings sprout more intensely, I suppose what should happen to a Venezuelan with a sense of belonging who is outside the country when listening to such songs. In addition to loves, landscapes, friends, poetry, we are accompanied by the vital and beautiful music of our land. Thank you for your sense of post, @nancybriti.
Sometimes you don't have to go far to miss or take a plane to be gone! What I believe is that, despite the distance we put between us and the country, there will always be a part of you that stays, here, where we were once happy. Greetings, @josemalavem.
A beautiful post, @nancibriti.
It is a great compilation of some of the most emblematic Venezuelan songs. I'd add some Gaitas pa terminá de soltá el llanto :)
Even though my having become so critical of my own country has made me a bit indifferent of all things nostalgic, I know, having lived 7 years abroad once, that sooner or later there will be something that will trigger the longing of the mother land.
As you pointed out, from a smell to a sound or taste, there are many things that will remind us of things we held dear while were here.
I know that for many who have left this has been a journey without return forced by some many disgusting experiences accumulated in the last 2 decades.
But the powerful thing about all these features you have illustrated here (food, music, places) is that they find their ways through the miasma of politically-induced trauma to connect us back to a rather idyllic time when we were happy but we did not know it.
I think that sometimes the memories, the smells, the sounds, are the refrain of an old known song! Some memories can haunt you, even though you are far away and they come to you in the form of objects, tastes, fragrances. The Venezuela we had is like the image of a beautiful woman who is old today: no matter how destroyed she may be, we do not forget that she was perfect and splendorous. Greetings, @hlezama.
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