Gitanitos Y Morenos
Gato Pérez
Gypsies and Dark-Skinned People
Gypsies and dark-skinned people are the masters of rhythm
and in the blood of their veins beats an ancestral pulse.
Now comes this singer, a stranger to the flavor,
who looks in the mirror of multicolored feelings.
Now I come to sing calmly,
now I come with flavor even if I'm not dark-skinned.
Now I come to sing differently,
with my special style of words and rhythm.
Painter who paints with love, why do you despise my color?
if you know that deep down I also have flavor.
You may be mistaken with your foreign brush,
for all the good white folks also feel the rhythm.
Now I come to sing calmly,
now I come with flavor even if I'm not dark-skinned.
Now I come to sing differently,
with my special style of words and rhythm.
He is a son of the street, of books and humor
who discovers his path through contradictions.
The repertoire is not genuine according to pure tradition,
but he respects in his own way the truths of the drum.