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Location:

San Gil, Colombia
South America

Contributor

Katherine Peterson

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Born in the Valley
There are few things more distinctly Colombian than vallenato music. The genre was born in the Caribbean city of Valledupar and is played with an accordion, a small drum called a caja and a scraping instrument called a guacharaca. The small town of San Gil is home to the street musicians captured in this recording.