Diomedes Díaz revives with the unreleased song ‘La Guajirita’

That same year, Granados saw a woman in a hotel in Maicao (La Guajira) who seemed “identical” to Urbina and that led him to write ‘La Guajirita’, says vallenato scholar Carlos Liñán-Pitre, cited in the statement.

In 1986, when Diomedes Díaz began recording the album ‘Incontenibles’“he asked his accordion technician, Ovidio Granados, to enter the booth and play that new song that he had heard the previous year and that he liked so much. Then, he took everyone out of the room and prepared to sing” , adds Liñán-Pitre, lawyer, philosopher and teacher in American Studies at the University of Seville (Spain).

“Diomedes asks Ovid not to teach the song to anyone else and days later they both record it, however, This was left along with those letters that are labeled ‘unpublished’ (…) more than 30 years had to pass so that it would be heard by vallenato lovers,” added the record label.

Diomedes Díaz, who died on December 22, 2013, at 56 years of agehe recorded more than 500 songs but not all of them have been published, and he was the winner of a Latin Grammy in 2010 for best cumbia-vallenato album with ‘Listo pa’ la foto’.