Seeing a Peruvian Cumbia from Group 5, Agua Marina or Corazon Serrano dance in a country they don’t know well can be moving. On social networks, you can see our citizens moving to the beat music While they make facial gestures when singing the choruses. They may long to meet these bands at the National Stadium to give an unprecedented concert.
If the concert takes place, more than one citizen will return to Peru to dance Cumbias With family and friends in a sports stadium, where people of all ages sing the national anthem with emotional feelings, even shedding tears of joy and pride, despite the defeats that permeate the minds and hearts of the fans.
he National anthem It is also sung with a passion far from home. Proof of this is what happened at the 2018 World Cup in Russia, a sporting event in which fans and players of the Peruvian national team passionately sang the national song. In the pictures you can see how both football players and spectators closed their eyes. This enthusiasm and encouragement they gave to Peru in every match was decisive in winning the Best Fan in the World award.
Watching the cumbia dance and singing the Peruvian national anthem awakens feelings in us that can lead us to shed a few tears. But what happens when those carrying out these actions are people from another country? Watching the audio-visual materials of some foreigners, more than one Peruvian can smile and even get excited. To others, it will simply look like a funny video.
The fact is that a video recently appeared on TikTok and received good comments from thousands of Internet users in Peru. The heroes of the clip are children and teenagers from Uganda, who paid tribute to Peru. These members of the Nansana Kids Foundation group created a series of videos referring to Peru.
Ugandans who danced the cumbia and tried to imitate the rhythm of the Peruvian national anthem do not belong to the group of Ugandans Hyper Kids Africa, which captivated the audience in February 2024 by dancing to “La culebrítica” for the fifth set. Thousands of Peruvians who saw the video on Instagram praised the foreigners, shared the post and it quickly went viral.
So, who are the kids who dedicated a series of videos to Peruvian cumbia and attempted to perform the national anthem? Do Nansana Children’s Foundationa group of dancers and mentors dedicated to fostering the talent and creativity of the children of Nansana, a small town in Uganda, Africa.
To do this, they use dance, an art practiced by children and youth in Uganda. In the videos shared on the children’s dance group’s TikTok account, it appears that many are dancing skillfully and some are trying to give a good performance. Over time, the latter can become great dancers, but to achieve this, support is needed, and not only moral.
a few days ago, A video has gone viral on TikTok. The protagonists of the audiovisual materials were the children and teenagers of the Nansana Children’s Foundation, who tried to sing the national anthem and depict the confrontation between the Peruvian army against the other parties. There are several elements in the clip that attract attention: For example, the ability to recreate scenes and creativity of minors.
The video shows children and teenagers carrying the country’s flag Peru On his chest and in his mouth is a stick lined with a bottle resembling a trumpet at the end. A teenager, playing a musical director, gestures with a baton in his hand. After that, Ugandans appear in the frame with a white sheet of paper in their hands, the content of which will be the lyrics of the national song of all Peruvians. They try to sing the national anthem and mime, some of them placing their hands on their chests.
As the seconds pass, the voice of Juan Diego Flores is heard, and meanwhile, the teenager who played the role of musical director, takes on the role of singer. In audio-visual materials you can also watch a children’s play simulating a war conflict.
It should be noted that this is not the first time they have referred to Peru in a video. Weeks ago, specifically on April 2, 2024, they published a clip with Peruvian music content. Two teens try to play the song “Tú” by Gian Marco and Catalina García. In it you can see the Ugandans’ excitement and how they recreated the scene from the video.
Days later, they posted countless videos in which they can be seen dancing to cumbia songs by important Peruvian groups, such as Marine water, Cyrano’s heart and Group 5, among others. Specifically, “La culebrítica” was used to compete with Hypers Kids Africa. Although they did a good job, they didn’t outperform them, receiving only 8,632 “likes” as of May 3 of that year.
Ugandans used more than one song of Group 5 to create content on TikTok. However, a few of them got a lot of likes and reactions. One of them is “VerminAfter using it for dancing and recording, They received more than 550 thousand likes.
It should be noted that the musical themes of other orchestras have been very well received by Nansana Kids Foundation followers. The themes of Agua Marina and Explosión de Iquitos were used by foreigners for dancing and mime. The success of these audio-visual materials can lie in the song and in the interpretive talent of children and adolescents.
Aside from using cumbia songs from well-known Peruvian bands, on your account you can also hear some salsa by singer Daniela Darcourt. If we explore the story of Ugandans, we can hear a variety of musical genres and, above all, see their talent in dance.
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