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Putumayo World Music lanza
Radio Latino
Putumayo World Music releases Radio Latino, featuring Latin pop and
alternative music
Putumayo World Music has teamed with the non-profit organization United for
Colombia in a fundraising effort to help rehabilitate child victims of landmines
in the Putumayo River valley and throughout Colombia. Putumayo will contribute
$1 from the sale of each Radio Latino CD, to United for Colombia, with an
overall expected donation of more than $200,000 to benefit the country that now
has the second highest number of landmine victims in the world after
Afghanistan.
Radio Latino was launched with a momentous visit to Colombia last week
started in Colombia last year by Dan Storper, founder & CEO of Putumayo, who
returned after 30 years to this country to promote this release and to travel
with the president of Colombia, Alvaro Uribe, to the region of Putumayo, which
inspired the name of the company.
On Radio Latino, Putumayo, returns to its Latin roots with this collection of
contemporary musicians standing at the forefront of the thriving "Rock en
Español/Latin Alternative" movement. Most of these musicians are household names
within their home countries, but have yet to realize their full potential in the
rest of the world. While acknowledging their heritage by intertwining
traditional rhythms and instrumentation with elements of popular music, Latin
musicians are demonstrating that you don't have to sacrifice your cultural roots
to appeal to a mainstream audience.
For more information about Putumayo World Music please visit
http://www.putumayo.com
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