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week 5

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Song of the week: No te olvidare / I will not forget you For this week I have not done any report of college work because I have received a very bad, sad and devastating new.  My cousin was raped, tortured, murdered and used by a criminal gang in Colombia. I know this is part of my personal life, but since I can not be there to support my family, I have decided to make a song in honour of her. Send this song to my country to be reproduced by the media as a message of encouragement and resignation in the face of what happened. This atrocious fact has been a cause of offence and concern in the city of Cartago, Valle del Cauca, Colombia where the murder of my cousin took place. In addition, there have been marches and much controversy. However, I have decided to add this song to my album, because I think it is worthwhile to convey my message and keep in mind that this pain was the inspiration to compose this song called 'I will not forget you'. I have composed it ...

Broader contextualization

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Life and music career of Maluma, Reykon, Karol G and J Balvin (case studies relating to my project) As part of my case studies, I am going to analyse these documentaries about four of my favourite Latin artists who have been through transitions and transformations that have made them who they are today. The reason for choosing them is because in each of them I reflect myself in a different way which I am going to explain right now and also because it is part of my project in the way as I am trying to become from Juan to Jayffo: 1) let's start with Maluma. He is a Colombian singer who made his music career based on his family and their support. Since he was a kid he used to sing karaoke's at his family's parties and celebrations and since then his family started to support his talent. However, His focus was more for being a Football player which definitely was his passion too. At his age of 15-16 years old, he decided to leave the football team and to start hi...

week 10 (13/05/2019 - 17/05/2019)

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Song of the week: Salvaje/ savage This week I have been offered to make a collaboration with my friend C-Bry and another friend called Jafet. This collaboration underlay of the idea of my friend Jafet who proposed to write the lyrics of a song called 'Salvaje that means 'Savage' in English. I started to write some lyrics listening to this track who owns Steven beats, a producer from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. This is the track that we are planning to use for the recording of this song, but first, we are going to buy the license to use it commercially. However, I am going to add more effects and sounds to enrich this track and making it more powerful. I know that I am not producing this song but anyway we personally really liked the vibe and the essence of this track to build up our song. 15/05/2019 Today, we have bought the license to use this track with the copyrights of the producer who has arranged with us a deal. On Friday, we are going to ...

Week 9 (13/05/2019- 17/05/2019)

Song of the week: La mision/ the mision 13/05/2019

week 8 ( 06/05/2019 - 10/05/2019 )

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Song of the week: Buscate a otro/ Find another REVIEW OF THIS WEEKEND WORK: This past  Saturday 04/05/19 I had the recording session of the video of 'Escultura' which is going to be released as soon as I get the video edited. The arrangement of the video recording session was in collaboration with MK who is the owner of BM Visuals in London which you can find information about his work in the link attached below: https://www.instagram.com/bmvisualsofficial/?hl=es The session was very comfortable, the team was awesome, as well as the model who I met that day who was very kind, professional and creative through the recording of the scenes. I was really anxious about how to act and how to move in the scenes but I dealt very well with it, even more, because the model helped me to get confidence with the scenes. Also, I am very happy because I have scaled a very big step in my music career by the first recording of my first video which is a reason for being motivated...

week 11 (20/05/2019 - 24/05/2019)

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Song of the week: Me gustas tanto/ I like you so much 20/05/2019 Today I have started to compose a song which I would like to call it 'Me gustas tanto' which in Spanish it means 'I like you so much'. The reason for writing this song is because a few days ago I met a girl in a bar and I actually really liked her and the inspiration was based in this experience. Once I arrived home, I started to write some lyrics on my phone and then I just was trying to guess the notes of the lyrics. So today, I am going to focus on getting the chords and the key of this song as well as rehearsing it. I have been listening to this song to use it as a reference to make this song: The reason for using this song as a reference is because the topic that the song talks about is similar to mine and also, the feeling is the kind that I want to get for my song too. This is song is upbeat, very happy, romantic, with a lot of rhymes and inspiration about a girl that he likes so ...