El Africano

📖 About this album

The album that made Aniceto Molina famous across Latin America. El Africano is vallenato at its most danceable and accessible, bringing the genre to audiences well beyond Colombia.

📝 Our review

El Africano is the album that solidified Aniceto Molina's status as a legend of vallenato and Colombian northern cumbia. Molina's voice has a spontaneity that the era's recording studios tried to capture without embalming. The accordion and caja drum set the pulse of a danceable album with authentic roots. Direct influence on several generations of Colombian Caribbean musicians.

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