LL Sanremo festival is synonymous with popular entertainmentItalian pop music and, above all, a real one machine churns out catchphrases. Since when Angelina Mango performed on the first of the six evenings of the singing eventhis piece Boredom it is having a lot of success. Thanks to the enthralling rhythm, her performance and also to the great curiosity that moved the mysterious woman Cumbia present several times in the textwritten in collaboration with Madame.
Angelina Mango and the Cumbia of Boredom: what dance is it?
Cumbia it’s a type of music and couple dance very popular in Colombia and of ancient African origin, known in Equatorial Guinea as Cumbé. This type of dance, a true aggregator of small indigenous communities, it can be translated as dina similar reference to the noise that plantation slaves madeusing the work tools.
Cumbia it has a gentle and at the same time sensual choreography which recalls the rhythmic flow of the sea waves. At the beginning of the 20th century it began to be known in Central and South America until reaching Europe, becoming contaminated with Western customs and Latin rhythms.
The singer and daughter of art, in an interview with Vanity Fairtalks about the partly autobiographical meaning of Boredom And, speaking of Cumbia, she talks about how much this dance means to her, which she practices when she feels an emotional need for itin which he glimpses a precise metaphor of a certain way of being in the world, of facing events.
Angelina Mango in a look by Etro. (Press office)
More songs with Cumbia
Angelina Mango is not the only one to have fallen in love with Cumbia but there are other Italian musicians who are fans of this joyful musical mix. Among the admirers Davide Toffolothe charismatic leader of the group Three happy dead boys. Love at first sight occurred in Buenos Aires in the early 2000s which led him to join a collective of self-defined artists Italian Institute of Cumbia. Lovers of this sonic beauty.
The “spring” Adriano Celentanohowever, pays homage to Cumbia directly in the title of a song on the album let’s pretend it’s truewhose lyrics and music are by Jovanotti. «This is the cumbia, the cumbia of those who change/The cumbia of those who change, this is the cumbia».
The emotional atmospheres, between desire for change and revolution, they don’t seem so distant from the mood evoked by Boredom: for Angelina Mango and her Cumbia, an excellent omen for new, future successes.
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