Tata San Juan - Inti Illimani

Tata San Juan (Venerable Saint John) is a song by Inti Illimani, the Chilean group, dedicated to the Sikura dance, performed on November 24th before the image of San Juan in the town of Cariquima in Chile.
For well over 30 years, Inti-Illimani (the name translates as "Sun God") has held a beacon for Chilean music, both the traditional folk styles and the more contemporary nueva cancion. Back in 1967 a group of students at Santiago's Technical University formed a band to perform folk music. Taking their name from the Aymaran Indian language of the Andes, they began playing traditional music — something few did back then — and quickly earned a reputation around the capital, becoming more and more adept on their instruments. By the '70s they'd grown into a political beast, taking on the nueva cancion (literally "new song") of many young groups, and being quite outspoken lyrically — enough to be forced into exile in 1973, where they'd stay for 15 years. However, they refused to be cowed by the Chilean dictatorship. Basing themselves in Rome, Italy, they continued to record, and toured more heavily then ever before, earning a powerful reputation around the globe, and becoming very unofficial ambassadors of Chilean music, as well as opponents to the ruling regime. In addition to performing with a number of famous, political figures like Pete Seeger and Mikis Theodorakis, they were included on the famous 1988 Amnesty International Tour, along with Sting, Peter Gabriel, and Bruce Springsteen.

http://www.inti-illimani.cl/english.html

Suma sikur vailind aka
markar hiwasah purhtan
tata sa huanaru kongortasirih a...
Humas nayas wavanahpatan hiwasan
aka Karikima (ma) rkasaruh a...
suma ch'ahch'e turulyanahaly
churchistan tata sa huana
hiwasah suma urup loktatan ukah a...
Humas nayas taque chima (ma) khatanane
tata san huanan sikur vailipande

English Translation

We come to this town
dancing the Sikura dance
to kneel before San Juan
We are all his children
in this town of Cariquima.
The saint will provide
excellent food and drink
when we offer our respect.
We come with our hearts full
to this place where He is
and dance the Sikura dance for Him.

Видео Tata San Juan - Inti Illimani канала treemarks