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Pilar Barreiro Mayor sent his counterpart in Cartagena de Indias, Judith Pinedo, a letter of condolences on the death of Etelvina Maldonado, Cartagena artist of 79 who was a real institution of Colombian music and going to participate in the next edition of the Sea Music Festival.
The representation of the festival that recently traveled to Colombia Cartagena artist contacted and was preparing a special production with her as the protagonist.
Etelvina was born on April 25, 1930 in a small town on the island of Baru in Cartagena Bay.
From the hand of his father and mother Pedro Maldonado Francisca de la Hoz, Etelvina childhood was spent in pilgrimages of carnivals, celebrations, songs bullerengue fandango language and the constant sound of the drum, so learned and seized a tradition that gave recognition singer.
Poverty has been a source of inspiration and success, working with families the clothes washing and ironing, office that played singing tangos, boleros and bullerengue, in one of these days of domestic work, the musician Stanly Montero discovers and Rafael Ramos contact to start a journey that today has among the most representative singers from the Caribbean and Colombia.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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