@toniwu222: Totó la Momposina was born Sonia Bazanta Vides in 1940 in Talaigua, a village on the Magdalena River. Her father nicknamed her Totó – “it was the only word that I could pronounce well,” she laughs, “a banana was a totó, an apple was a totó.” The rest of her artistic moniker came from the wider region in which she grew up, Mompós. “We did not have to attend a marketing course to come up with the name,” she chuckles. She started performing when she was eight. “My mother was determined that her children would be proud of their Afro-Indigenous identity, so she formed a group called Danzas del Caribe in the 1950s and that’s how I started singing.” By that time, La Momposina’s family had moved to Bogotá after her father was wrongfully imprisoned during the political persecution and brutality of La Violencia, a violent ten-year civil war that displaced close to ten million Colombians. Totó remembers, “we had to leave everything we had, [our] shoe-making workshop, our house, our friends and put the few possessions that we had on a truck to go to a city totally unknown to us, where we had to face many difficulties, since at this time there were not many people of our culture and colour.” La Momposina’s parents were musicians and dancers, and she had a musical upbringing, with students and musicians from the Caribbean coast regular visitors to the family home. “In Bogotá, there weren’t any cultural centres. Our house was the centro cultural de Bogotá.” With her family she performed on TV and for diplomats, doing whatever they could to get their music heard. #fyp #toniwu #afrolatinx #afrolatina #afrolatinos #afrocolombian #totolanmichoacan #colombia #colombiana #diaspora #diasporatiktok

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Friday 19 January 2024 22:29:48 GMT