Artists
who's who and who's doing what?Graciana Silva Garcia
- country:Mexico
- style(s):Son Traditional
- label:Accords Croisés
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La Negra Graciana spent half a century in lugging her harp along Los Portales, a borough with many terraces where street musicians play nearly all day. Now in her late sixties, Graciana became the first lady of son jarocho, the traditional music of the state Veracruz, usually played by the jarana or the requinto, two ancient forms of the guitar. There is a Spanish influence on her lyrics through the décimas, the improvised song verses, in which the singer and her brother Pino reflect on anything and everything. However, the rhythmic accents and echoes of call and response recall the African extraction of part of Veracruzano population.
