Mauricio Callejas is a troubadour from El Salvador. Mauricio sings, with beautiful lyrics, about daily lifes, stories that happen right before our eyes.
He relased his second solo album “Magico” in 2009 in Austin TX, produced by Stephen Doster and features several renowned Austin artists like Joel Guzmán, Alex Coke and Michael Ramos. His first CD “Cosas de la Calle” was released in El Salvador in 2002.
Mauricio left his country and moved to Austin in July 2002 to continue his studies and pursue a professional career in songwriting and recording.
During his more than 20-year career, Mauricio Callejas, has performed in different venues in Latin America, the United States and Canada.
He is the founder of the first songwriter directory of Central America, www.centroamericanto.com and produces a weekly radio program that is broadcasted from different radio stations around the world.
- Note: Although I would like you to read the story first and then play the music, I am including a link to the music here Here
About 10 years ago, I wrote a prose that after all this time came back to me by itself. I was dreaming a few days ago, like every night, and it appeared in the middle of my dream without a reason, like a TV commercial, and reminded me of that text that I titled “The scent of Havana”
After the dream, the idea of writing a song about the Havana subject, which is now a pre-teen at its 10 years of age, was planted in my head. I had to put some Caribbean music on those unstructured ideas and make them dance.
I did not dislike the task at all, on the contrary, the only problem was to find a time to make those sensations, now 10 years old, somehow return to my senses. As if it were so easy to put the sensations in the freezer to use them at some point in the future! No, I had to close my eyes, immerse myself in the heat of the memories for about a couple of hours and bring them back. This is not particularly easy when you’re at work.
- Nota: Aunque me gustaría que leyeran el artículo antes de escuchar la música, estoy agregando el enlace a la canción aqui: Tu Olor Habana
Hace aproximadamente 10 años escribí una prosa, que después de todo este tiempo vino a mí como una forma de reivindicación histórica de si misma. Yo soñaba hace unos días, como todas las noches, cuando se apareció en el sueño sin ser ni siquiera parte del mismo, así como esas escenas de “Interrumpimos este programa….” y me recordó de ese texto que se llamaba “El olor de la Habana”
Después de ese sueño, la idea de escribir una canción con esas letras, que ahora son pre-adolescentes a sus 10 años de edad, se plantó en mi cabeza y no me dejó tranquilo. Tenía que ponerle música caribeña a tan inestructuradas ideas y hacerlas bailar.
El trabajo no me desagradaba en lo más mínimo, al contrario, el único problema era encontrar el momento para que esas sensaciones vividas hace más de 10 años, de alguna manera regresaran a mis sentidos. Como si fuera tan fácil poner en el congelador las vivencias para volverlas a usarlas en el futuro! No, había que cerrar los ojos, sumergirse en el calor del recuerdo, por aproximadamente un par de horas y emprender el viaje de regreso. Esto particularmente no es fácil cuando se está en el trabajo. Read the rest of this entry »
