The Peru music is a fusion of sounds and styles drawing on Peru’s Andean, Spanish, and African roots. After hundreds years of cultural mixing, there have been created a broad musical landscape over Peru. The earliest printed polyphonic music in Peru, was “Hanacpachap cussicuinin,” composed by Juan Pérez Bocanegra and printed in 1631. Pre-Columbian Andean music was played on drums …

Maybe you need to remember that address: Jr. José Olaya 532, Huaraz (Ancash, Peru). http://www.peruvianandes.com/en/ Maybe they need to know which treks or climbs you are interested in and how many days you would like to be trekking or climbing. For those not so keen to do multi day trekking trips, there are options for easy hiking and camping, day …

When Redfield self-published his first novel, the immediate interest from booksellers and readers made The Celestine Prophecy one of the most successful self-published books of all time. As a young man, he studied Eastern philosophies, including Taoism and Zen, while majoring in sociology at Auburn University. James Redfield was 43 when he published The Celestine Prophecy. Born in 1950, he …

Her mother was a composer who authored many famous creole waltzes. She, Blanca Varela, was born in Lima in a 1926 Summer day. In 1949 they travelled to Paris where she met Octavio Paz, a key figure in her life, who introduced her to the artists and intellectuals there. Octavio Paz (the Mexican Nobel Laureate), praised her poetry and identified …

HECTOR BERNABO’, ALIAS CARYBE’ 1/3 – His work has been used to illustrate novels written by such Latin American authors. Some of his work can be found in the Afro-Brazilian Museum of Salvador. He produced five thousand pieces of work, including paintings, drawings, sculptures and sketches. He became famous for his characterizations, using different techniques, of the Bahian black and …

Brazil has an ancient history, one that is complex and intricate. Unique and original styles (such as samba and bossa nova, sertanejo, troicalia and choro, maracatu, embolada and mangue beat, frevo, axé andlambada). The first registration of musical activity in Brazil comes from the activities of two Jesuit priests in 1549. The native peoples of the Brazilian rainforest play instruments …