In front of the lenses of the cameras that masterfully capture your portraits in
movements, your subtle shyness is perceived, and each fold of cloth that your the third den skinofacing
an imposing and elegant simplicity.
Your lips give me the impression of knowing childhood love and that pair of eyes
feeling of being a paseo vallenato played on the strings of a violin; under the nights of
your smiles of crescent moons that adorn Valledupar like earrings and illuminate the
landscapes on the banks of its old parr river…
Author: Elvis Martin.
The entry Mujer vallenata was published first in El Pilón | News from Valledupar, El Vallenato and the Colombian Caribbean.