by the El Reportero’s news services
The song La Bicicleta (The Bicycle) by Shakira and Carlos Vives will be launched this Friday in the digital platforms, after the rage stirred in the Colombian Caribbean when it was recently created.
A communiqué released by the office of Vives, King of vallenato, says the new single will be available as of May 27 in all digital platforms and on sale in iTunes.
La Bicicleta is the first collaboration between the two famous artists of this Andean nation. The song is based in a mix of vallenata music, with influence of pop and reggaeton, song to be included in a next CD.
The video of the song made popular by both coast idols, directed by filmmaker and photographer Jaume De Laiguana, is to be launched in June.
It was recorded between the cities of Santa Marta and Barranquilla, where Vives and Shakira were born, respectively.
Its elaboration and the paraphernalia that came with the recording attracted the attention for several days this month of all the towns of the Caribbean coast region, from Cordoba to La Guajira.
“I always wanted to write, produce and record a song with Shakira so together we could show our Colombia to the world, affirmed Vives on the new four-hand creation.
He added that Shakira has taken our country’s music to incredible heights and finally to be able to collaborate with her is a very important feat for me, he added.
For her part, Shakira, who also had words of high appraisal for her fellow Colombian, affirmed it was an important experience to work with the author of La Tierra del Olvido.
She expressed that La Bicicleta is a song that pays tribute to our country in many ways.
The Maya – Language of Beauty
With approximately 300 artworks including many Mexican national treasures, this exhibition explores the magnificent and varied forms of artistic expression developed by the Maya, with a focus on a fundamental aspect of pre-Hispanic art: the body.
Flourishing on the Yucatán Peninsula between 500 B.C. and 1500 A.D., the Maya achieved a degree of artistic sophistication—in reliefs, busts, and clay and stone figurines—that placed them far ahead of all other contemporary cultures on their continent.
Mayan buildings and works of art provide a splendid window into the everyday existence of this highly advanced civilization, shedding light on its literature, astronomy, music and dances. These reveal a culture dominated by an idealized view of humanity and its relationship with the gods, notions echoed in the Mayan ideal of beauty and conception of mankind’s place in the cosmos.
The Maya – Language of Beauty is part of a year of culture organized jointly by the German and Mexican governments. In exhibition from April 12 – Aug. 7, at Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany.
