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ORIGINAL: Castelat

I was listening to Zyryab album and if you take a deep look into the "Playa del carmen" song, where he actually died yesterday, the lyrics goes like this:

“Cuando me pongo a pensar, que me tengo que morir, yo tiro una manta al suelo y me harto de dormir"

"When I start to think that I'm going to die, I throw a blanket on the floor and get tired of sleeping"

I was shocked :O

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ORIGINAL: Castelat

I was listening to Zyryab album and if you take a deep look into the "Playa del carmen" song, where he actually died yesterday, the lyrics goes like this:

“Cuando me pongo a pensar, que me tengo que morir, yo tiro una manta al suelo y me harto de dormir"

"When I start to think that I'm going to die, I throw a blanket on the floor and get tired of sleeping"

I was shocked :O

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ORIGINAL: BarkellWH

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Playa del Carmen is a smaller, more authentically Mexican town on the coast a little to the south of the concrete internationalism of Cancun.

Actually, Playa del Carmen is neither more nor less "authentically Mexican" than Cancun. Cancun has a larger share of the resort crowd, but Playa del Carmen has plenty of gringos prowling its restaurants such as "Senor Frogs" and other night spots catering to the foreign tourist enjoying the "Riviera Maya," of which Playa del Carmen is a part. Just the Chamber of Commerce term "Riviera Maya" says something about how "authentic" it is.

the idea of being "authentically Mexican" reminds me of my mother, who spent the first sixteen years of her life in Mexico before moving to the United States with my grandmother. My mother thought that everything in Mexico that had changed since she had lived there was less than "authentic." I tried to convince her that Mexicans, no less than other people, were not preserved in amber. They moved on with the times. Cancun, for example, is just as "authentic" a Mexican destination for the international tourist crowd as a poor, dusty, village in central Mexico loaded with pregnant women and lame dogs is an "authentic" poor, dusty Mexican village loaded with pregnant women and lame dogs. Both are "authentic" aspects of the overall culture of Mexico today.

In any case, it is Paco de Lucia upon whom we are focused, and it is his passing that is mourned by all who care about vituoso flamenco guitar and Paco's mastery of it.

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Sorry, Bill. Just trying to add a little info. Wherever it was, Paco's love for the beaches of the Yucatan peninsula was clear in his video "Francisco Sanchez-Paco de Lucia."

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Aw man, I just read this article on his last moments. First time I read such specific details.

http://www.abc.es/cultura/musica/20140227/abci-muerte-paco-lucia-201402271310.html

Poor Paco. He must have been scared in his last moments not knowing what that cold chill in his throat was. At least it was quick. He had stopped smoking 20 days before (having smoked 2 packs a day for years). Last sentence of the article is especially chilling. I wonder if all this is true. _____________________________

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http://www.abc.es/cultura/musica/20140227/abci-muerte-paco-lucia-201402271310.html

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ORIGINAL: Shroomy726

Aw man, I just read this article on his last moments. First time I read such specific details.

http://www.abc.es/cultura/musica/20140227/abci-muerte-paco-lucia-201402271310.html

Poor Paco. He must have been scared in his last moments not knowing what that cold chill in his throat was. At least it was quick. He had stopped smoking 20 days before (having smoked 2 packs a day for years). Last sentence of the article is especially chilling. I wonder if all this is true.

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Aw man, I just read this article on his last moments. First time I read such specific details.

http://www.abc.es/cultura/musica/20140227/abci-muerte-paco-lucia-201402271310.html

Poor Paco. He must have been scared in his last moments not knowing what that cold chill in his throat was. At least it was quick. He had stopped smoking 20 days before (having smoked 2 packs a day for years). Last sentence of the article is especially chilling. I wonder if all this is true. _____________________________


"Paco había dejado de fumar hace 20 días después de años fumándose dos paquetes diarios. ..."

So goes the irony, doesn't it, that after smoking and drinking for many years, the shock of quitting could kill you.

"...el frío de esa garganta que siempre quiso cantar y no pudo le heló para siempre el corazón."

Indeed, Shroomy a daunting end to that article, that nearly makes you feel the frightening cold breath of death... "A chill in his throat that always longed to sing but couldn't, forever froze his heart.

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Full lyrics:

Las cuerdas de mi guitarras y estan llorando, lloran por seguiriyas... ay ay ay por mi mare, por mi Lucia...

¿pa' que quiero llorar?, si ya no tengo a nadie quien me oiga ay ay, ay mi mare, ay mi Lucia....

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ORIGINAL: Shroomy726

Very interesting and intimate interview on Paco performed by his daughter, Casilda (a bit short). Details I had never read before about himself and his childhood:

http://www.telva.com/2014/02/26/estilo_de_vida/1393407559.html

I may have more in common with him after all.