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Silvestre Francisco Dangond Corrales aka Silvestrong (Born May 12, 1980 in Urumita, La Guajira) is a Colombian Vallenato singer, composer and Timbales player. Dangond is considered one of the mainstream representatives of the "new wave" of vallenato musicians. Early years Dangond grew up back and forward between his birthplace Urumita and Valledupar, but mostly in this last one, where his parents moved when he was just a year old to Valledupar due to financial hardships. As a curiosity Jorge Oñate was his Godparent. In Valledupar his parents enrolled him in the Jardín Nacional nursery school, later attended middle school at...

Isabel Silvestres voice is a national treasure. This friendly schoolteacher from the northern village of Manhouce is also a fierce keeper of her regions folk traditions and, indeed, it was as lead singer for the local folk group Grupo de Cantares de Manhouce' that her extraordinary voice was discovered. It took a very long time to convince her, but eventually she relented and recorded her fisrt solo album where traditional material and songs from some of Portugal greatest songwriters merge. .

Em seus discos, vê-se a variedade rítmica brasileira: baiões, sambas, bossas, frevos, toadas e xotes; Silvestre é poeta: escreve letras densas que evidenciam sua devoção. Suas harmonias são belas e escolhidas com um cuidado de artesão. Bacharel em violão erudito-1996 pela Faculdade de Música Carlos Gomes .