Andy Palicio is a BelizianPunta musician. Belize is a small nation on the eastern coast of Central America, on the Caribbean Sea bordering Mexico to the northwest and Guatemala to the west and south. ... Punta is a type of music found primarily in Honduras and Belize. ...
He was born and raised in the coastal village of Barranco. Palacio sings in Garifuna, a combination of Spanish and French, combined with West African, Carib, and the native Arawak language. He was the first musical artist from Belizean to have a video on international television. He received the award for "Best New Artist" at the Caribbean Music Awards in 1991. He lives in Belize. Barranco is a district in Lima, Peru. ... The Garifuna or Garífuna are an ethnic group in the Caribbean area, decended from a mix of Amerindian and African people. ... West Africa is the region of western Africa generally considered to include these countries: Benin Burkina Faso Cameroon Côte dIvoire (Ivory Coast) Equatorial Guinea Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Liberia Mali Niger Nigeria Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville) Senegal Sierra Leone Togo Chad, Mauritania, and... Carib or Island Carib is the name of a people of the Lesser Antilles islands, after whom the Caribbean Sea was named; their name for themselves was Kalinago for men and Kallipuna for women. ... The term Arawak (from aru, the Lokono word for cassava flour), was used to designate the friendly Amerindians encountered by the Spanish in the Caribbean. ... 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Palacios' work is considered to represent a loss of traditional spirituality in Garifuna music, in favor of Christianideology. Spirituality, in a broad sense a concern with matters of the spirit, is a wide term with many available readings. ... The term Christian means belonging to Christ and is derived from the Greek noun Χριστός Khristós which means anointed one, which is itself a translation of the Hebrew word Moshiach (Hebrew: משיח, also written Messiah), (and in Arabic it is pronounced Maseeh مسيح). ... An ideology is a collection of ideas. ...
AndyPalacio, is not only Belize's most popular musician and performing artist, but a serious music and cultural archivist with a deep commitment to preserving the values of his Garifuna culture.
Upon returning to Belize, Andy encountered " a renaissance of young Garifuna intellectuals," whom were writing poetry and songs in their native language.
Andy has been twice recognized by the Caribbean Music Awards, as 1991's "Best New Artist" and as a presenter in 1992, both events taking place at New York City's famed Apollo Theatre.
Meet the hardest-working man in Belize's show business, AndyPalacio, the 43-year-old "ambassador of Punta Rock." Palacio reworks roots classics in a mixture of Garifuna, Spanish and Creole and sets them to a party, dance-floor tempo.
Palacio is currently hard at work on a CD featuring duets with other Garifuna artists.
With its quick tempo, night-on-the-town storytelling and raucous electric guitar, AndyPalacio's "Gimme Punta Rock" illustrates the partylike mood and dance-floor appeal of Punta Rock.
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