Wax figures of Escalona and Diomedes will likely be within the CCMV Corridor of Status

Throughout the checklist of figures who led Vallenata tune to triumph over the sector, the names of Diomedes Díaz and Rafael Escalona seem, who with the benefit in their existence and musical tales will seem inside the content material of the Cultural and Conference Middle of Vallenata Song.

The chief of the CCMV, Sergio López Gómez, introduced that ‘El Cacique’ of L. a. Junta and Escalona may have an area inside the temple of conservation of the historical past of vallenato, which is being inbuilt Valledupar. That is how, of those two greats of Vallenato tune, their wax figures will likely be exhibited within the CCMV Corridor of Status.

“There will likely be a large number of Diomedes Díaz and Rafael Escalona on the Cultural and Conference Middle of Vallenata Song, with the figuring out that they’re some of the maximum influential figures of conventional vallenato, which is why we can have their biographies neatly informed, all their songs, their musical and circle of relatives environments, and above all within the corridor of reputation, the place there will likely be hyperrealistic wax sculptures, ‘The idol of the multitudes’ and the creator of ‘L. a. Casa en el aire’ will likely be provide,” mentioned López Gomez.

As precursors of the Vallenata tradition and subsequently of Cesar, this Might 26, a floral providing used to be made on the tomb of Diomedes Díaz and the revealing of the Escalona mausoleum, from the place the Secretary of Tradition and Departmental Tourism, Iván Murgas Vallejo, highlighted the determine of the singer and that of the composer.

“Diomedes and Escalona had been some of the maximum vital architects of our vallenato, our tradition, and after their deaths they develop in renown, appearing that their legacies will likely be transcendental in historical past, no longer handiest at a countrywide degree, but in addition international,” mentioned Murgas Vallejo.

Diomedes Díaz died on December 22, 2013 because of herbal reasons; His musical occupation used to be probably the most prolific within the vallenato universe, whilst Rafael Escalona died on Might 13, after marking the cultural lifetime of Colombia.

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