San Basilio de Palenque gets recording studio for bullerengue and champeta

The studio will have to help preserve and strengthen the regional folkloric music styles like Bullerengue and Champeta, that threatened to disappear, because of a lack of resources.Colombians Simon Mejia, who works in a recording studio in Bogotá, and Santiago Cáceres, who has a studio in London, helped building the studio, mounted in an old rented house in San Basilio de Palenque.The studio has already recorded artists like Santiago Moreno, Juglar de Pito, Sexteto de Lempo and Señor Panama, considered a San Basilio de Palenque institution for telling the stories of the town and its people.

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