October 23, 2002
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Las Ketchup consists
of the Munoz sisters.
Lola, Lucia and Pilar,
the daughters of
famed flaminco
quitarist nicknamed El
Tomate. These three
young ladies are the
new teen sensation
from Spain which at
only one week of their
first single release
■The Ketchup Song
(Hey Hah) have
entered directly to #1
in the Supersales
chart in their native
country.
IFCC Celebrates Dia de los Muertos
A n e x h ib itio n to c e le b ra te the
M ex ican h o lid a y , D ia de los
M u erto s, w ill o p en T h u rsd ay ,
Oct. 31 at the Interstate F irehouse
C ultural C en ter lo cated at 5340 N
In terstate A ve.
T h e show featu res the w ork o f
five artists an d all p ie ce s w ill
ho n o r the d ea rly d ep arted .
In th e m ain g a lle ry , H ecto r
H ern an d ez p rese n ts a series o f
life -sized a c ry lic and m ixed m e-
Armando Oleda, ‘Skull’
H ere co m es the ‘K etch u p S o n g ’ from Spain
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‘T h e music business is not an
exact science,” M ateos said.
Indeed, the lim elight is all over
the M unoz sisters— Pilar, 29; Lola,
26; iind Lucia, 19 — and their song
about a fashion-conscious Gypsy
named Diego who makes up his own
brand o f rap.
Since the song has cut the m us
tard with listeners in Europe and
Latin America, the sisters hope the
United States will relish it, too. It’s
already rising on the singles. This
week, they’re visiting Miami and
Ne w York to promote the single and
the LP, called “Hijas del Tomate,” or
“D aughters o f Tom ato.”
Their song, known in Spanish as
“A sereje,” bases its lyrics on snip
pets from the 1979classic “Rapper's
Delight" by the Sugar Hill Gang, but
transm ogrifies them with a staccato
twist from Las K etchup’s native
Andalusia region.
T he re fra in g o es lik e th is:
“Asereje ja de je de jebe tude jebere
sebiunouba majabi an de bugui an
debuididipi.”
T hat’s not Spanish, it’s gibber
ish.
A sample can be found on the Net
at http://www.theketchupsong.com
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Neighborhood grocery store and
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At left, Salma Azizza, (right), tries to get Jessa Foster,
4, to wave to her grandfather across the community
garden where he sat under the shade o f corn husks.
Foster's grandfather, Hugh Gray, co-owns Big City
Produce and Small World Café, the sponsors of
Saturday's Community Celebration. Kids were treated
to free pumpkins, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
and the chance to turn organic apples into apple with
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Above, Caroline Buchalter o f Spooky Dance Band plays a final round
of music at the Big City Produce Community Celebration on Saturday,
Oct. 19. The eclectic afternoon o f music also featured the sounds o f
Larry Yes, Black Notes and Shades o f Jazz and drew a crowd o f 1500
who came out to celebrate life, community and the harvest season.
Big City drew numbers and gave out bags o f free groceries to people
who happened to be standing on the same number drawn with chalk
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te n sio n o f o u r b o d ies and senses.
A n alee F u en tes ad d s h u m o r and
cross-cultural references w ith her
p ain tin g s La B o d a de F u en tes y
W eissb arth : H o m ag e to V an E ck
w ith sk e letal fig u re s p o sed as
V an E y c k ’s b rid e an d groom .
T h e D ia de los M u e rto s show
w ill run from O ctober, 31 through
N o v em b er 27. T h e IFC C is open
fro m 11 a.m . to 6 p.m . T u esd ay
th ro u g h F riday.
Big City Produces
a Big Crowd
Move over ‘Macarena
A P — Now that the “M acarena"
has become adistant memory, along
com es “The Ketchup Song” — and
dance.
T he S p anish pop tune w ith
gobbledygook lyrics is topping
charts around the world, and it’s
accompanied by arm-waving, knee-
knocking gyrations.
The three sisters who do the song
teamed up only a year ago and
nam ed them selves Las K etchup as
an homage to their flam enco guitar
ist-father, nicknam ed El Tomate.
The single has sold 2.5 million
copies from A ustria to Australia. In
Europe it’s No. 1 in sales in 15 coun
tries, says London-based Music and
M edia magazine. The album that
features the song has sold 900,000
copies around the world, reaching
gold status in much o f Latin America.
Teenagers in Kosovo love it. One
D anish Internet portal offers the
m elody for dow nloading as a cell
phone beep. A nd a version in M an
darin Chinese is planned for the
w orld’s m ost populous nation.
Sony M usic thought the sisters
had potential w hen it signed them,
but no one expected all this, m arket
ing director Jose M ateos said.
d ia p ain tin g s, w hich p o rtra y d if
feren t a sp ec ts o f ev ery d ay life in
re la tio n to th e d eath . H e ju x ta
p o s e s th e h e a lth y w ith th e
d ea th ly ill, d eath am ong th e so
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an d d eath in u rb an and ru ral se t
tin g s.
T rilic e N a v a rre te p re s e n ts
p ain tin g s th a t ev o k e d ea th as a
sh ad o w th a t fo llo w s us, often
b ec o m in g a p art o f us as an ex
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