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The joy and mischief of Sabanera music (that accordion music that is a close relative of vallenato that has many members of Los Corraleros de Majagual as legendary exponents), was felt in every note of the accordion of Miguel Durán Junior, son of another respected artist of the same name, who started him on the musical path.
(Context notice: Mourning in Vallenato: singer Miguel Durán Junior passed away)
His most famous songs like The striped shirt and The pelao pocket They were in the middle between the rhythms of fandango and merengue: fanderengue, and with them he made people dance, especially in the areas of Sucre, Cordoba, El César and Urabá Antioqueño.
Born on March 30, 1971 in Caucacia (Antioquia), Miguel Durán Junior stood out for being one of the few musicians of his generation who, while singing, accompanied himself on the accordion. He remembered a minstrel of the ancients, those who inspired Alfredo Gutiérrez and Lisandro Meza.
Also, like the minstrels of before, he kept in his compositions the story of the experiences of his environment and for the same reason He had composed a song to the pandemic that had made world news in 2020.
This bad pandemic arrived in Colombia, which is affecting the entire world. And that virus that nobody expected. Put your hand, my God, save your people
“This bad pandemic arrived in Colombia, which is affecting the entire world. And that virus that nobody expected. Put your hand, my God, save your people ”, says the first verse.
With that cheerful tone that characterized him, The pandemic – that’s how he titled the song – was released to the public in mid-June. Her simple handwriting included the main tips that have gone around the world to take care of a contagion.
“And the way things are going, we have to take care of ourselves. Put on your mask and wash your hands well, ”says the lyrics. And it continued. “In quarantine, I stay here in the house. And we have to take care of ourselves, I tell my friends. My blessed God, I hope that soon I will send the cure for this virus. “
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzSrN_mFsQo
A month after the song began to spread, Miguel Durán Jr, the third of Miguel Durán’s 9 children, known as ‘El Pollo Caucano’, suffered firsthand the effects of the contagion. He spent 38 days in the intensive care unit at a clinic in Sincelejo.
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His condition became so serious that on July 24 it was rumored that he had died, news that was denied by his family. Days later it was announced that the accordion player and singer was in the recovery phase. However, it was a bacterium, which his relatives suppose that he acquired in the clinic where he had been transferred to recover, which finally ended his life at dawn on September 3.
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Before the pandemic, in March, Durán had released the video for the song El Acetaminophen, about the pain of love that only cures a woman who for whom she sings is like acetaminophen. Other hits of his career -which spanned three decades- are La camisa rayá, La tuchinera and I drank the market.
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