Nuestra amiga Carolina Amorouso comparte con nosotros sus impresiones sobre la musica de la cantante, poeta, activista e investigadora Chalena Vasquez, que hace no mucho nos ha regalado un ramillete de hermozas canciones. Yusyulpayki panikuna Chalena Vásquez’ Song Poems By Carolina Amoruso I’d very much like to meet Chalena Vásquez; I’d like to see if she’s the person I imagine her to be: reflective, wise and yet ingenuous, a woman both blessed and beset by barraging images and imaginings. I’d like to know how she became stellar without nurturing star quality, where she found the temerity to slip, unannounced, into my “hogar” of feelings. Her lyrics—or are they poems set to melody, seasoned with instrumental sound?—are studded with “love,” with “dreams,” “ternura,” with “flowers,” with a myriad of images from Nature. Kind of old fashioned. Trite, one might think. Don’t we all know about “dia” and “melodia,” of “piel” and “miel,” of “brisa” and “sonrisa?” But the everyday opens into a p...