POSITIVE REFLECTIONS | BOLERO AS FOOD FOR THE SOUL | By: José Gerardo Mendoza D.

With deep affection I want to share with my readers and friends, especially with older adults and extensively for kids who like history and musicologists who confess that they have lived as Pablo Neruda said, those of us who have lived accompanied by good music dancing with passion when you feel your feet in the air as if you were flying to heaven accompanied by a beautiful lady, breathing in your ear without pronouncing words because the mere fact of dancing a bolero with great pleasure and pleasure does not require speaking because everything has been said; Dancing with passion is one of the pleasures of life, in addition to being a source of joy and good health, that is why I dare to share with you and with the permission of my admired writer the talented Omar Barriento Nieto and my dear friend Dr. and former ambassador Lindolfo León, experienced in those walks and enjoying our pachuco time like me, added to the fact that dancing and drinking is one of the best investments that no one can take away from us, this is part of a good life; I sent my greetings and my respect to the author of the article, I know that he will read it as it is, because thank God he is in good health and I apologize because they say that he who copies does not contribute, but when he reads he knows that I am not a copyist. It is very true that the bolero feeds the soul. Unesco has just considered and qualified BOLERO as intangible cultural heritage of humanity. Poetry crosses the space of the bolero. *Roberto Cantoral*, the Mexican composer and author of “The clock”🎼 He begged the hands not to mark the hours because he felt like he was going to go crazy knowing that his sick wife could be gone forever…”when it dawns again” And it was the Puerto Rican Pedro Flores who held the issue “Obsession”🎼 (1935) what years later continues to be absolute certainty: that *”no matter how high the sky is in the world, no matter how deep the deep sea is, there will not be a barrier in the world that a deep love will not break for you”* 🎼 And two years before, the Mexican Consuelo Velasquez burned with love with *«Kiss me a lot»*🎼one of the most famous boleros in this history. It is known that the bolero musical segment emerged in Cuba. It is accepted that the first bolero was «Sorrows»🎼, written by the Cuban mulatto José Pepe Sánchez in Santiago de Cuba in 1883. Since then, the bolero has not stopped invading us, disturbing us, igniting our passions, exalting desire, mitigating heartbreak and showing that *«we only have this one left night to live our love»* I warn that the bolero can also turn us into obsessed beings. I will never fail to mention the guy who placed an advertisement in a newspaper requesting a cook and made it a strict condition that the candidate not sing. “Sidewalk tropical»🎼the famous bolero of tremendous success by Gonzalo CurielMexican from Guadalajara, that we have all sung over and over and over again. Agustin Lara He had an unpleasant physique, with a scar on his face (according to the story, it was given by another man who surprised him with his wife) and a voice that was not suitable for singing, but his musical talent and his educated voice hypnotized the world with its powerful creativity. on which they relied. *He advised the sad adventurer of the night to sell her love dearly* and established, challenging the haughty moral behavior of his time, that *”he who wants honey from your lips should pay for your sin with diamonds”*. He “golden skinny”🎼 as he was called, he thought he protected us when he warned that: *»the nights on the prowl hurt, cause pain and end up crying and he lamented that the soul is only given once, only once and nothing more»*. There are many voices that left marks on our desires: José Luis Moneró, Bobby Capó, Juan Arvizu, Leo Marini, Toña la Negra, Lucho Gatica. The most famous, perhaps, was Pedro Vargas: he sang for long years until the successive “arrangements”🎹🎼 of his face ended up mummifying him and he ended up singing «Santa»🎼 for the last time, but with a perfectly rigid face and eerie slowness. Los Panchoswas the most famous trio in its time and among us Alfredo Sadel He was a beautiful gallant and prodigious bolero player and Rafa Galindosupported by Billo Frómetawas the owner of a splendid and seductive voice and more recently the bolero universe belonged to Armando Manzanerobut a plea will always emerge between the melodic lines of the bolero: *«Oh, love, don’t love me so much anymore!»*🎼 and thanks to Chilean Antonio Prieto and its ignition “Frenzy”🎼 I can beg or demand from the woman of my dreams: *«You kiss me. Kiss me just like my mouth kissed you. Give me the frenzy that my madness gave you. Who if it wasn’t me could teach you the way of love…!* “Forget me”🎼🎹, he implored José Luis Monero with the orchestra Rafael Muñozin the forties of the last century, but the greatest glory remains the fact that I was not worried then and I am not worried today that “infinity would remain without stars and the wide sea would lose its immensity”* because I insist on staying anchored in the certainty that in *the woman we love the black of her eyes and the cinnamon of her skin* will remain intact; and to clear up any impossible or impertinent unknown, I rebuke: *«Woman, if you can talk to God, ask him if I have ever stopped worshiping you!»*

Cheers music and love ✏️

Now more than ever, the countryside is the solution, all united for peace, coexistence, respect and prosperity of our country.

José Gerardo Mendoza Duran.

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Barquisimeto, October 3, 2024.