Grounded: Manu Chao and "Por el Suelo"

Manu Chao brings us the random tune for today, called Por el Suelo. The performing name of José-Manuel Thomas Arthur Chao, Manu Chao is a French-born musician of Spanish descent who sings in French, Spanish, English, Italian, Arabic, Catalan, Galician, and Portuguese among others. His influences are punk, rock, French chanson, Spanish-American salsa, reggae, ska, and Algerian raï. He also layers music, lyrics and sound recordings over each other, and often reuses sound from earlier songs to create new ones. Chao can also be very political in his music, taking on topics such as immigration, love, ghetto life and drugs. He is a personal friend of Zapatista leader Subcommandante Marcos, and he has many followers on the European left. You can find Por el Suelo, which translates to "on the ground," on his 1998 album Clandestino.

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Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manu_Chao