The perfect representative of Colombia’s Caribbean flavour, Carlos Vives is a singer, actor and composer; he has been awarded an Anglo Grammy and three Latin Grammys. From the city of Santa Marta, Vives started out playing rock music in bars in Bogota, and learned his trade as an actor working in soap operas like Tuyo es mi corazón, alongside Amparo Grisales. In 1991 he played the Vallenato singer, Rafael Escalona, in the programme Escalona, Un canto a la vida, where Vives played the musician’s songs. At that time he decided to move his musical career in the direction of Vallenato and Champeta rhythms, and other Colombian sounds. In 1993, he recorded his acclaimed album, Clásicos de la provincia, and in 1995 the classic album La tierra del olvido. The new millennium has brought the albums Déjame entrar (2001), El rock de mi pueblo (2004) and Clásicos de la Provincia II (2011), as well as a project called Pombo Musical that contains the Colombian poet’s most famous tales, and had the participation of artists like Juanes, Fonseca and the group Aterciopelados.