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Mon May 05, 2008 at 05:25:01 AM PDT

Today in our tour of Latin American music, I give you the brilliant Carlos Vives. Vives has made a career out of modernizing the vallenato -- a Colombian variation of the cumbia that hails from the nation's coastal region. Little vallenato groups (accortion and percussion) roam the beaches and play for partygoers, something I hope to experience first-hand some day -- kos

This was his breakout hit. His song "Amor Latino" is my ring tone when my wife calls.  

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