{"id":2682,"date":"2011-09-25T23:47:08","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T21:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salsawalkabout.com\/?p=528"},"modified":"2014-12-16T13:47:48","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T12:47:48","slug":"talking-with-jose-lebron-the-lebron-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielebesana.com\/blog\/salsa\/talking-with-jose-lebron-the-lebron-brothers","title":{"rendered":"Talking with Jose’ Lebron – The Lebron Brothers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Lebron Brothers bar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I discovered the Lebron Brothers<\/strong> listening this\u00a0playlist<\/a> from SalsaCanal, a guy that has hundreds of classic Salsa songs on his Youtube channel.<\/p>\n

It was 3 years ago when my friend Paul and me spent days listening the hit “Dies Lagrimas<\/em>“.<\/p>\n

Since then,\u00a0The Lebron Brothers<\/strong> is one of my favorite band.
\nWith their unique style, their sad lyrics, their perfect mix of powerful rhythms, melody and chorus.<\/p>\n

I could never imagine that one day I would meet them, Los Hermanos Lebron<\/strong>, in Cali, Colombia<\/strong>. \u00a0Actually, I had no idea they were living there \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Of Puertorican origin, grow up in New York, they decided to open their very nice “The Lebron Brothers bar” in the upper class party area (Granada) of the city recognized as \u00a0the\u00a0World capital of Salsa\u00a0<\/strong>– Cali.<\/p>\n

I was super excited to visit their bar, also because I knew that they were luckily\u00a0in town that weekend.<\/p>\n

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from left Frank, Carlos, Daniele and Jose’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The encounter went pretty much like this: one after the other, Carlos, Frank and Jose’ Lebron showed up in the bar and I jumped to greet them, telling that “I’m a brother from Italy that came here to visit their bar!”<\/em>, showing them my Lebron Brothers t-short bought in Bogota’\u00a0and asking for pictures.
\nAnd their reaction was pretty much like “Oh OK, cool.”<\/em> and a cold handshake.<\/p>\n

I was disappointed – they seemed to be like most of their beautiful lyrics. Sadly sad.
\nCheck the words of their hit “Dies Lagrimas”<\/em>, or hunt a smile in any of the videos from their live performances, and you’ll know what I mean…<\/p>\n

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45 years anniversary CD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But with my biggest surprise they later invited me to come back to the bar to collect a gift: a new CD for the 45 years anniversary of the Lebron’s career.<\/p>\n

When I arrived there, Jose’ Lebron<\/strong>, the man behind many of the band’s lyrics, was there on a table behind a notebook.<\/p>\n

I sat down with him. He signed for me a copy of their last CD \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Then we started chitchatting about Cali<\/strong>.
\nThe Lebron first arrived in the 1979<\/strong> (when I born!) and where they became legend\u00a0in 1989 with a memorable concert in front of 60.000 fans<\/strong>!!<\/p>\n

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The brothers love Cali, and Cali loves them too…
\nDuring my 30 minutes walking to reach the bar I heard in the street their songs played at least 3 times.
\nAnd there’s no party where they don’t pass “Que Pena<\/em>“, a song that the cale\u00f1os \u00a0spice up with their own chorus, or “La Temperatura<\/em>“.<\/p>\n

They even dedicated a song to Cali and Colombia – Me Enamore (album “Salsa En El Paraiso Con Los Lebron”, 1990):<\/p>\n