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#8. Me Llaman Calle
by Manu Chao


Manu Chao sings in six languages, but he's world music's great cross-cultural hope because his best songs transcend all of them. Chao's warm singing over José Manuel Gamboa and Carlos Herrero's leaping Flamenco counter melody creates a direct emotional line to the core of this mid-tempo ballad. With its easy melody and universal rhythm Me Llaman Calle walks proudly in the shadow of Bob Marley, the last guy who made world music this disarmingly simple.

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