Since 1982, every February 7, the Día del Carnavalito is celebrated in homage to Edmundo Zaldívar, the Buenos Aires musician who in 1941 composed “El Humahuaqueño”, a song that not only became a hymn for Jujuy but also crossed the country’s borders. and from the continent.
Zaldívar, a guitarist and composer who was born in 1917 and died in 1978, was the author of a lyric that is repeated several times throughout the song:
“Carnival is coming, quebradeño my cholita. / Arriving is the carnival. I break my cholita. / Festival of the ravine, Humahuaqueña to sing. / Erke, charango and bass drum, / Carnavalito to dance. / Quebradeño, Humahuaqueñito. / Quebradeño, Humahuaqueñito”.
Here, ten versions of the most famous theme of the Quebrada. From the original by Edmundo Zaldívar, to one in Japanese, through the one recorded by Roberto Carlos and a controversial Pitbull rapper. Also those of King Africa and DJ Sly Dark, as well as the more “autochthonous” ones of Los Tekis, Chango Farías Gómez, Jaime Torres and Soledad Pastorutti.
