Laura K Posted June 24, 2008 Report Share Posted June 24, 2008 Does anyone know where online I can purchase music of famous singers and musicians who are Costa Rican? Feel free to tell me the names of famous singers and musicians that are Costa Rican. I'd like to know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epicatt2 Posted June 24, 2008 Report Share Posted June 24, 2008 Does anyone know where online I can purchase music of famous singers and musicians who are Costa Rican? Hola Laura, If you are in CR and the Central Valley, check in Universal in San José Centro. They have a large selection of music, some of which is local talent. Online you could try eBay and chance a search for keywords 'costa rica' and 'folkloric' or 'tipica' or 'national' or 'singers', etc., or some combination thereof. There is also a site called 'La Carretica' at http://www.lacarretica.com/tradiciones/inc...tasinbueyes.asp which used to have Tico-style music CDs offered on it, as well as other tico items, foodstuffs, etc. HTH Paul M. == Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdocop Posted June 24, 2008 Report Share Posted June 24, 2008 And, once again Laura, you are not thinking these things through. Remember the total population of the country? Now, what kind of market do you suppose that population base can provide? You can indeed find some typical Tico sounds, but you are far more likely to find that the music they listen to comes mostly from Panama, Columbia, Mexico, and other Latin American countries..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeanp Posted June 24, 2008 Report Share Posted June 24, 2008 And, once again Laura, you are not thinking these things through. Remember the total population of the country? Now, what kind of market do you suppose that population base can provide? You can indeed find some typical Tico sounds, but you are far more likely to find that the music they listen to comes mostly from Panama, Columbia, Mexico, and other Latin American countries..... There is a rather famous Costa Rican group called "Editus" but I'm not sure that their "sound" is unusually unique to Costa Rica. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epicatt2 Posted June 24, 2008 Report Share Posted June 24, 2008 Hey Laura, Whoosh... It completely escaped my mind...! Try a YouTube search using 'music' and tico' for keywords. I found some lovely things that way doing a search a couple days ago. One of them was a song entitled "Soy Tico" and one of the versions of it was subtitled with the Spanish lyric. HTH Paul M. == Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy Posted June 24, 2008 Report Share Posted June 24, 2008 Does anyone know where online I can purchase music of famous singers and musicians who are Costa Rican? Feel free to tell me the names of famous singers and musicians that are Costa Rican. I'd like to know. Laura, Some folk music from Costa Rica is very good. Try bands like Danza del Sol and Danza de la Luna. Some mix folk/rock would be José Capmany, Inconsciente Colectivo and Editus as Jean had mentioned. Some rock would be Malpais, Gandhi and Evolución. Editus, Malpais and Gandhi can be found on iTunes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura K Posted June 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 28, 2008 (edited) Paul, I bookmarked the website you gave me. Thanks for the eBay suggestion. Looking forward to checking out Universal one of these days. Laura K Edited June 28, 2008 by Laura K Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura K Posted June 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 28, 2008 (edited) Jdocop, According to the umsl.edu website, the population of Costa Rica is 3,604,642 (July 1998 estimate). Now I know why it's difficult to find music from Costa Rica. Laura K Edited June 28, 2008 by Laura K Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura K Posted June 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 28, 2008 Jean, I'll definitely check out Editus. Laura K Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura K Posted June 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 28, 2008 Jimmy, Looks like you've done your homework on music from Costa Rica. Thank you so much for all of this information. Laura K Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura K Posted June 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 28, 2008 (edited) Paul, I use You Tube all of the time so I will use You Tube to look up musicians from Costa Rica. Laura K Edited June 28, 2008 by Laura K Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epicatt2 Posted June 28, 2008 Report Share Posted June 28, 2008 I use You Tube all of the time so I will use You Tube to look up musicians from Costa Rica. Hi Laura, Just to save you from having to do a search, here is the song "Soy Tico", a subtitled version of it, showing the Spanish lyric: I find it to be a simple but lovely song that explains much about the Tico mindset. BTW, once you get to the page where this link takes you you'll also find several other videos of this song, but with different images illuminating them. They make for some nice slide-shows of the country. And if your Spanish is far enough along I suspect you too, will be moved by this song, as was I. Hope you enjoy it too. ¡Pura Vida! Paul M. == Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JulieH Posted June 28, 2008 Report Share Posted June 28, 2008 thank you Paul! I love this song, and have now added the link to my blog - saved for posterity Julie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura K Posted June 29, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 29, 2008 Hi Laura, Just to save you from having to do a search, here is the song "Soy Tico", a subtitled version of it, showing the Spanish lyric: I find it to be a simple but lovely song that explains much about the Tico mindset. == Paul, Thanks for the link. I added the song to my World Music playlist on You Tube. The video reminds people that Ticos come in all colors. Laura K Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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