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Carlos Vives on His Colombian Identity and Bringing Vallenato to the Pop Spotlight: ‘My Greatest Act of Rebellion’
Carlos Vives stops himself in mid-sentence and apologizes. He chokes up, overcome by a rush of the same raw, vulnerable emotion that informs his anthemic songs. Tears stream down his face — but they’re tears of joy or, at the very least, of sweet …