{"id":24397,"date":"2015-08-06T16:20:37","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T00:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=24397"},"modified":"2015-08-06T16:20:37","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T00:20:37","slug":"old-spanish-days-are-on-in-santa-barbara-watchlisten-to-helado-negros-young-latin-and-proud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2015-08\/old-spanish-days-are-on-in-santa-barbara-watchlisten-to-helado-negros-young-latin-and-proud\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Old Spanish Days&#8221; Are On In Santa Barbara:  Watch\/Listen to Helado Negro&#8217;s &#8220;Young, Latin and Proud&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/HN-YLP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-24399\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/HN-YLP-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"HN-YLP\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/HN-YLP-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/HN-YLP-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/HN-YLP-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/HN-YLP.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been fans of Brooklyn&#8217;s<strong> Helado Negro<\/strong>\u00a0ever since we first heard his great song <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2013-01\/watchdownload-helado-negros-dance-ghost-from-new-album-invisible-life\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Ghost Dance<\/strong> <\/em><\/a>over two years ago. \u00a0But we became even bigger fans after catching his superb croon-filled sets as opener on label-mate <strong>Sufjan Stevens&#8217; <\/strong>recent<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>tour. \u00a0<strong>Helado Negro<\/strong> has just released a new video for his emotive song <em><strong>Young, Latin and Proud.<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 About the song, <strong>Roberto Carlos Lange<\/strong> (he is Helado Negro) has said \u201ccontemporary Latino culture is underrepresented and consistently confused with cliches that haunt more commercial representations. \u00a0My interest in creating this song was always a private one, a possible dialogue between me and a very young me. Singing me to sleep after a long day, letting me know that it&#8217;s okay to be young, Latin and proud.\u201d \u00a0The minimalist animation of the video below limns well the subtly powerful song. \u00a0To be both we say: bravo!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TSykDP_zZx8\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been fans of Brooklyn&#8217;s Helado Negro\u00a0ever since we first heard his great song Ghost Dance over two years ago. \u00a0But we became even bigger fans after catching his superb croon-filled sets as opener on label-mate Sufjan Stevens&#8217; recent\u00a0tour. \u00a0Helado Negro has just released a new video for his emotive song Young, Latin and Proud.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24397"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24402,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24397\/revisions\/24402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}