Preserving living tradition
Eduardo Llerenas was a respected professor of biochemistry when he won a Rolex Award for Enterprise in 1981 for a project to preserve Mexico’s rich musical heritage. He is now the director of an independent music label and is considered by ethnomusicologists to be the world expert on Mexican traditional music.
"There’s a great cultural value in this music. It represents five centuries. It’s the musical heritage of Mexico.”
Among the many factors that brought about his career change, the Rolex Award figures significantly.
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Reviving rhythms
Music has taken Eduardo Llerenas into small villages in many countries where ordinary people make extraordinary sounds, and he has brought those rhythms back for the rest of the world to enjoy.
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Mr Eduardo Llerenas
Discos Corasón
Altamira 832
Colonia Miravalle
03580 México D.F.
Mexico
