I will post pics of the little shop soon! I found most of my jams there and there were tons of great folks to talk to (and a few boozehounds who grab your collar when they talk to you, but otherwise quite nice).ĭownload here: Elsa - Los Destellos de 1970 I luckily picked up 3 45s of theirs and a couple of LPs from a dusty little record store on Avenida Quilca in central Lima. 1 in 1970 and helped them sell a million copies of the record! Their website is kinda funny and features them receiving awards for various things. No bad blood or anything like that, I don´t think, but maybe a parting gift for her. Probably their biggest hit, I think (I think.) Elsa is about their first singer Elsa Salgado who quit the band shortly after their first record. Elsa is the song that I put on my discman when I started any 10-15 busride or long trek in the Andes. Straight from Lima in the 60s, Los Destellos put out six records and played up until the death of frontman Enrique Delgado in 1996. Pretty interesting stuff and I think that Joanna Newsom lady totally stole her act.
It´s her beautiful voice over a bit of harp playing, with about 30 seconds of drums at the end. Mamanchura admitted to the crime, but Meza is kinda saying "I was just playin!!"īelow are 6 tracks in a zip file of Alicia´s music. It´s a pretty grisly story and details continually emerge on the situation. Most people in Peru would describe it as country or mountain music. She was quite popular in the cities of Cuzco, Huancayo and Tumbes, but not very much so in cities like Lima or Arequipa. Of course, the news of Alicia´s death was overshadowed by the death of Michael Jackson, but it´s quite significant for Peruvian music. The couple had a history of domestic violence and, after it emerged that Delgado was having an affair with her harpist, Meza paid Mamanchura to kill her. Alicia was stabbed nine times and hung with a leather belt by her ex-chauffer Pedro Mamanchura, after a love triangle of sorts came to light.ĭelgado was in lesbian relationship with fellow folklore singer Abencia Meza for 8 years before her death.
Like Mike, Alicia Delgado was also 50 years old when she died and the details of her death are pretty chilling, but a bit murky. Two days before the King of Pop passed on, Peru lost its Princesa del folklore.
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