When you ask Venezuelan about Venezuelan music, usually they think of llanera music, a sound that emerges in the Venezuelan plains, and was popularized outside our borders thanks to large representative figures as the master Simon Diaz and his llanera tonada , the romance of Maria Teresa Chacin, and the concert in the Plain of Juan Vicente Torrealba.
Plain that sound reflects culture, history, tradition, refers to geography, its people, the spaces surrounding the artist who is inspired to compose with basic musical instruments like the cuatro, harp and maracas.
The sound of the Venezuelan plains (Barinas, Guarico, Porutguesa) costrumbres that reflects the Venezuelan region. As in Maracaibo where the Gaita, a sound that accompanies Venezuelan Christmas with instruments like the furroco, the charrasca, drum and also includes four.
If you travel to Barlovento you find the drums accompanying dusk beaches.
The music not only has the ability to connect with our roots and culture. It also reminds diversity (sounds) that we possess in the same territory, differences so characteristic of the Venezuelan who is historically the result of crossbreeding of cultures and civilizations that we receive in our land.
That connects us culturally sound and lyrics catch us emotionally, either reflecting a feeling towards our country or to the people with whom we share not only nationality but also form part of the history of our own life.
