We are closing this blog from the Vallenato Festival 2011 with a beautiful encounter we had with Leandro Díaz the day after the closure of the festival. The blind, now almost deaf, composer and poet has not given up creating vallenato songs - or on life. He sang for us his latest composition, not even two months old: No le temo a los años (I am not afraid of the years)We dare not attempt to translate these wonderful lines, be it enough said that he makes fun of the 50 year olds that fear becoming 60; he himself has passed 80 and is fortunate to still be able to sing the woman's praise. In the next verse he adds that in the garden of life the last flower that withers away is the woman...
Thank you for always sharing your wisdom and courage, Maestro. And thank you for the music. Keep it coming!
(Please note that the Maestro at this stage of his life is severely hearing disabled, and does not sing in public any longer)
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