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| I didnt get to hear much on spanish music until recently when I got to know some Cuban people. I used to hear traces of it on MTV and Channel V and B4U back in India, those rare times when they had decided hindi filmi music was too boring. Here are some of those I heard and liked. I like spanish songs of Ricky Martin Shakira Marc Antony Jennifer Lopez Jerry Riviera Julio Iglesias Enrique Iglesias Alejandro Sanz My favourite song is the one Marc Antony and Jennifer Lopez did together, "No Me Ames". Its a song that I really like. Its style is really different and nice. I had already mentioned that I like Amharic music a lot. Teddy Afro is really good- almost all songs are really nice. There are so many other nice songs too. There is one girl, Haimanot Girma, whose songs are really nice. She did one song with Hindi lyrics which go like this: "Tum (something I never understood) dosti hai, mera dil intezaar hai, jaldi aana, aaj ne kya, because my heart kya karega". The song's called "O Maahi re" and very well liked by the Ethiopian people. There is another singer, D. P. Shindey, who is an Indian trying to make music by mixing both indian and ethiopian styles. Traditional Ethiopiann music is very good too. More good is their traditional dance. Each region has its own dance, its own costume and own music, all unique in their own style. There is Amharingya, Guraginya, Oromingya, Tigirinya, and a few more. Oromingya people have a traditional head dress of a lion's mane. The men shake their heads when they dance and the whole mane shakes. A prominent dance movement of the Amharingya is the shake of the shoulders and head. I once saw a video of the traditional dance at a friend's house. I saw these girls spinning their heads so fast like a top, their hair loose and flying all over. Man, I was so scared thinking their heads are gonna roll apart and spin separately. |
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| This is a picture I took in Ethiopia. The birds are weaver birds fighting for rice on the birdbath which I had made for them. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||