Atahualpa Yupanqui - Cruz del Sur

guitar playing is spectacular, as are the bongos and bombo.

My favorite Yupanqui song is "Duerme, Duerme Negrito." First heard it in Montevideo by Daniel Vigletti, but got to like Atahualpa's version more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jo5mBZZGqU

For those unfamiliar with this song, it originated in the Afro-Venezuela/Afro-Colombia banana or coffee-growing region. It is probably the most-known cradle song in the Spanish-speaking world.

It tells of a babysitter telling a "negrito" (baby boy) to go to sleep because his mother has gone to work, coughing and sick, on the plantation; she will bring him quail to eat, delicious fruit, pork meat and other goodies (which is impossible because of the wages she is paid) and if the "negrito" does not go to sleep, the "white devil" (the plantation owner) will come and "zas," eat his little feet.