Bread and Circuses: Ani Cordero and "Panis et Circenses"

Today's song is by a rising star in the Latin music world. Panis et Circenses by Ani Cordero, a Puerto Rican-born musician who started her music career in Tucson, Arizona fronting a band bearing her own last name, Cordero. In 2000, accompanied by her husband, musician Chris Verene, Ani Cordero moved to New York, reformed the band and toured nationally with Calexico and Los Lobos, among others. By 2005, she had become quite well known in the New York rock scene, and she joined a new Latino pop and folklorico group called Pistolera. Panis et Circenses is from her first solo album Recordar: Latin American Songs of Love and Protest, in which she sings eleven songs of political and social significance in Latin America. It was released in April of 2014, and Panis et Circenses was written by the famous Brazilian artists Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil and originally performed by Brazilian psychedelic group Os Mutantes.

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Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ani_Cordero; https://www.anicordero.net/