Artist: Elsa Ayllon Vega de Szeinfeld

Original recording date: circa 1972

As long as I can remember being me, I have heard my mom and grandmother play this song from their birth city in Ecuador. The song originates from a poem written in 1948 in Quito, Ecuador by Gustavo Eguez while missing his home city. Musician Carlos Rubira Infante later turned it into an iconic Ecuadorian pasacalle rhythm.

Ambato is a city south of Quito, high in the Andes along the Pan-American Highway. It is the capital city of the Tungurahua Province. It sits at 8,455 feet elevation. My mother called the weather as being an "eternal spring". Ambato is known for its Festival of Fruits and Flowers that is held every February during Carnival.

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The next Camino Musical selection is a home recording of La Luna Enamorá played on the guitar by my mother, Elsa Ayllon Vega de Szeinfeld. This is a copla/flamenco song originally written by Bolaños, Durango and Villajos, lyrics by Cuban/Spanish singer Elsa Baeza in 1978.

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Here is our next Camino Musical selection: The Girl from Ipanema (La Chica de Ipanema in Spanish) (Garota de Ipanema in Brazilian Portuguese) is a well-known Brazilian song in the classic bossa nova style, that was composed by Antonio Carlos Jobim in 1962. According to Wikipedia, it is believed to be the second-most recorded pop song in history, after "Yesterday" by the Beatles. It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2000, into the Latin Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001, and it was chosen in 2004 by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry.

This is a home recording of my mother - Elsa Ayllon Vega Szeinfeld, playing the song on the piano. This is the first song that I have shared of my mother on the piano. The other songs have been of her playing the guitar.

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