Abrazos

if you have read my article LANGUAGES AND THE DANCE AND MUSIC INDUSTRY you may remember me referencing the fact that I am in a band called STRIDE which recently partnered with a Mexican band called RockDI. on Saturday night i was lucky enough to be part of the first ever blended gig between the two bands, us STRIDEers were performing at the CCA which you may remember from the article MODERNA is very close to my heart. it was a very emotional evening but for now I am going to leave all the tearfulness behind and focus on the intriguing Spanish content of the songs!

Rock of Nations

Lara lara quiero explorar la vía será mia tu vas is one line of the chorus (if I have spelt it right, my only reference is the recording of the gig!) which both of the bands sung together. it means “la la la la I want to explore life if you come with me”. I have to admit that I’m quite proud of my bandmates and myself for repeatedly managing to sing that quickly in tune without getting tongue-tied!

Nueva era

“In este momento” and for the backing singers “nueva era” were part of the chorus, however they were in the middle of English lines! for some reason the band learned this Spanglish chorus with as much ease as we learn English lyrics! in the whole year we were writing and learning the song absolutely nobody managed to muck up the Spanish !

in conclusion half the band claim to only speak English and yet they managed to ssing perfectly in a foreign language which poses the question “does the brain already have all the world’s languages in it and do we only form neurological pathways to the ones we speak?

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