This is a space my music is made for! Música en vivo de #MarcosdelaGuagua inspired by @PiSanchezNYC as we gather & organize for victory in the Nov general election, and imagine what comes next. Sat 10/16 2pm 2497 Jerome Av. Bx, NY & Zoom: RSVP Pi21.NYC/GOTV
Estimada Gente Guagüera,
Donald Trump talks a lot about “Bad Hombres”, defining latino masculinity to elicit fear and build his power.
How can Latino men and boys choose to publicly and positively define ourselves? How do women and girls want to see masculinities actualized in our social world? Are there elements of latin@ traditions of machismo and marianismo that we can cherish, celebrate and reform to serve an agenda of gender equality?
I think we need an ongoing public dialogue about these and other related questions. ¡Caballeros! is my part contribution to that conversation.
Come join the conversation this weekend when “¡Caballeros!”, my Bomba/dance/hiphop exploration of latino masculinities, featuring Wilson La Antigua of Bombayo, will presented by Annabella Gonzalez Dance Theater at Manhattan Movement & Arts Center as a part of a diverse program called “Sorpresas”:
248 W 60th St, Friday April 5th 8pm, Saturday April 6th two shows: 3pm and 8pm
After the Saturday 3pm show, Wilson and I will participate in a talkback conversation about ¡Caballeros!, facilitated by Jinah Parker asking: What do we want from masculinity?
Here’s a trailer for ¡Caballeros!: youtube.com/watch?v=NsfWszUoigw
I’m also performing in 3 of Annabella’s whimsical, passionate and lovely dances.
Tickets: manhattanmovement.com/calendar or at the door $25 adult, $15 student/dancer.
Solidarity,
Marcos
Dear Guaguer@s,
In Journey Back to Grace: Songs of Love and Loss, I invite you on a raw, vulnerable, personal journey. It’s a journey through stages of grief at the loss of my life commitment. It’s a journey back to hope. Journey Back to Grace gives you an idea of what Marcos and la Guagua songs are at their heart: active dialectics of the voice and the drum, of feeling and thought, the personal and the universal. La Guagua invites you to dance. La Guagua seeks to uplift us. La Guagua means to move you. The journey was performed and recorded with help from Ardashir Ethan Lea, in the gracious, acoustically gorgeous sanctuary of TLC of NYC.
Paz,
Marcos
Copy ready link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZW0-w9TQ34&list=PLlsqKxJPGOvOBh-7MjrFdot99nlFLzp_v
The Lyrics:
I- I Can’t Believe It
by Marcos de Jesús Wille, copyright 2015
There are many things that I have doubted.
You were one thing that I was sure of.
I took a long time before I asked you,
And you said yes…but now I’ve lost you. (beat drops)
I can’t believe it.
I can’t believe it.
I can’t believe it.
I can’t believe it.
I can’t believe it.
I can’t believe it.
I can’t believe it.
I can’t believe from the
Crazy girl who cried when I said I wanted space.
The ambitious woman who said it was time we got a place.
My beautiful bride.
My joy and my pride.
The strong help I trusted to always be by my side.
I can’t believe it.
I can’t believe it.
I can’t believe it.
I can’t believe it.
I can’t believe it.
I can’t believe it.
I can’t believe it.
But, I guess I’ve got to
Believe it the dream is over now. It’s time to wake up
And forget a strangely beautiful dream like I do most every morning.
I can’t believe it.
8X
I thought we had everything.
Why’d she leave…Why’d she leave…Why’d she leave…
It? fine SDD SDG
II- Involucrado con los Muertos
by Marcos de Jesús Wille, copyright 2015
Es que ella es
Tan involucrada con los muertos
She´s so, She’s so involved with the dead.
Tan involucrada con los muertos
etc
Torn between joy, love, and dread
She see´s a world on fire.
Maybe all great storytellers are prophets and liars!
Y me deja pensando.
Que lo que le pasa a mi
No se le pasa a nadie
Un matrimonio tan feliz
etc
Que termina asi
Ay, ay, ay de mi
Lo que tengo que sentir
Y sobrevivir
Pero la pérdida pasa a todos
Aunque no tengo idea ni modo
Aguantar lo
y lo cierto
Es que ella es
Tan involucrada con los muertos
There’s nothing to be done
Tan involucrada con los muertos
Somos Calaveras de veras, so let’s try to have some fun.
etc
Asi Abuela lo vio
Por esa nena me muero, but what a lovely way to go.
Y me dejado a mi
Involucrado con los muertos, muerto
Involucrado con lo muerto, eh!
2x o mas con soloista ad lib
Pero la pérdida toca a todos
Aunque no tengo idea ni modo
Aguantar lo
Y lo cierto
Es que lo nuestro
Ya ha muerto.
Y viviremos
Juntos y involucrados con lo muertos.
fine
SDG SDD
III- Now and Forever
by Marcos de Jesús, copyright 2015
Hmmn…
OO…
Hashtag keep the Faith
Fail.
Mis padres, abuelos and now my
Divorce.
No fault keep it out the courts.
But, why do we join, construct, define,
Is it just the build up for inevitable decline?
So a man shall leave his mother,
A woman leave her home,
So what?!
So they go to the county, the church, throw a party, then die alone?
She was beautiful, haunted, divine.
But I couldn’t save her, beautiful savior.
Was she ever really mine.
Hmmn…
OO…
Now and Forever
Now?
Now what?!
Forever?
Forever’s what I thought,
I started already.
¿Y como era pa’ mi abuelita?
Matrimonio terminado
Porque le vio como negrita,
La suegra,
Mi bisabuela.
Y que de mi Abuelo
la trato de defender
Sus promesas mantener
Pero que feliz mi bisabuela
Cuando salió su nieto,
Tan lindo y tan rubio,
Lo queria comer crudo.
Te revelo el asunto:
Tres generaciones
de fracaso aqui estamos frente de Dios
Desnudos!
Hmmn…
OO…
Now and Forever
Now?
Now what?!
Forever?
Forever’s what I thought,
My parents were waiting before they got divorced.
Long suffering,
There were no unforced errors,
The game was over
Then the war came
Then the news dropped
And we’d never be the same,
Family failed
No money, matrimony unsuccessful
Was there anything to life besides more or less stressful
Now and forever will I ever find mine
Jesus lover of my soul
I think I’m running out of time!
I did say I do
‘Cause I thought I wanted to-
Now and Forever
More
Be thine!
SDG SDD
Fine
IV- Canto de Lo Que Muera
por Marcos de Jesús, copyright 2014
Fueron a la playa
A nadar con la familia
Y perder lo que se asuma
En la arena y la espuma.
Y nos fuimos al desierto
A desear lo que no es cierto,
Naufragar entre nopales,
“California uber alles”.
Y yo soy un vagabundo
Y eres tu, el mar profundo
Y yo vivo en tu playa
y me caricia todos tus aires.
Estos aires agradables,
Y turbulentes huracanes,
Que viven de tu calor
Y mueren en tu ausencia,
Como
Yo…
Canto de lo que muera 3x
Como Yo…
Canto de lo que muera
Como yo.
Canto. Canto
2x
Fueron a la playa
A nadar con la familia
Y perder lo que se asuma
En la arena y la espuma.
Canto de lo que muera
Como yo.
Canto. Canto
2x
Soy un vagabundo
Y eres tu, el mar profundo
Y yo vivo en tu playa
y me caricia todos tus aires.
Canto de lo que muera
Como yo.
Canto. Canto
2x
Como yo, como yo
Canto de lo que muera
Que muera como yo
Como yo
Canto de lo que muera
Canto, Canto
¡De lo que muera como yo!
¡Canto!
Canto, canto de lo que muera!
¡Canto!
ad lib etc
ultima vez
¡Canto!
De lo que muera como yo…
Fueron a la playa
A nadar con la familia
Y perder…
Fine
SDD SDG
Beloved Community,
Friday November 21st, 7pm
Marcos & la Guagua presents:
Code Switching
Album release concert
Trinity Lutheran Church 164 W 100th Street, Manhattan
I will be performing songs from my debut album Code Switching, in a beautiful space that has helped me find my voice. Everything sounds better with the gracious acoustics of the sanctuary of TLCofNYC. I invite you to be a part of our journey. La Guagua means to move you.
Check out a video of a recent show to have an idea of what we'll have to share with you.
More details soon.
Thanks for Listening,
Marcos
