There are a multitude of other videos under “música llanera” or “joropo llanero” on YouTube. One of the most important is singer songwriter Simón Díaz (1928 – 2014) who helped establish the genre’s enduring popularity in Venezuela. The album Sí, soy llanero: Joropo Music from the Orinoco Plains of Colombia contains relatively recently recorded Colombian musicians and demonstrates how identical the style is across the two national borders.

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