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Música llanera - Ana Veydó from Grupo Cimarrón
In the plains of eastern Colombia, men have long sung to accompany their tasks of herding and milking cows. Consequently,
música llanera (plains music) has a masculine character, and its themes draw from the male-dominated cattle-herding lifestyle. Yet today, one of the most renowned
música llanera singers is a woman: Ana Veydó. Veydó is one of the few female singers that follow the
recio (robust, coarse) style of
joropo singing usually associated with the male voice. Here Veydó discusses the influence of feminine voices in
música llanera.