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Grupo Chonta by Diego Obregon at Terraza 7 Live Music
Courtesy of Terraza 7 Live Music (Queens, NY) | Posted on May 11, 2012
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Terraza 7 Live Music
40-19 Gleane St
Queens, NY
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Sat, May 12, 2012
10:30pm
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The sounds of the Pacific Coast of Colombia are back to Terraza Live Music. Hear the Afro-Colombian traditions by the great Marimba the Chonta player, singer, composer/arranger, percussionist and instrument maker Diego Obregón with his mystical and majestic music.
Diego Obregon was born in Guapi August 1st February 1971. As a teenager, he started playing drums and cununo with Silvino Mina, a marimbero well known in the region, which takes special interest in the young. Obregon soon joined the group. Later he became part of the folk group Guapi representative.. At age 24 he traveled to La Tola, Nariño where he learned to build marimbas and then to sound...