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He hopes that the recognition catapults her around the world. "Seeing her walk these trails that have to do with her maternity, to see herself as an artist and as a mother of Sebastián and Valentina, allows us to see how daily life is also a way to be inspired," he says, "and how motherhood also offers a space for creativity to think about music." Monsalve notes that the Latin Grammy nomination comes at a crucial time for Sur's career. Jaime Andrés Monsalve, music director of Radio Nacional de Colombia, has followed Victoria Sur's career from the beginning. That's how the lullaby to wake up or the lullaby to sleep emerged: 'sleep my boy, sleep my girl, sleep my love.'" "When they were babies, I wanted them to go to sleep peacefully, or to wake up in a sweet way. They would tell me simple things," Sur says. "We started to remember many things from the moment they were born and the songs began to emerge inspired by them.
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Later, the global pandemic helped to bring her closer to her kids, nurturing a deeper relationship. Sur started working on the lullabies in 2015, when her twins were three years old. Victoria Sur wrote the songs on her Latin Grammy-nominated album for her twins, Valentina and Sebastián. One of the album's songs is called "Desplazados" ("Displaced"). She incorporated the rhythms she'd performed as a teen into songs with lyrics that addressed the social reality of Colombia. Her 2004 debut album, Bambuco Acido, was received by Colombian critics and fans as a revelation. She moved to Bogotá in the mid '90s and began her career as an independent singer-songwriter. "We recorded four albums, and were part of the soundtrack of the coffee bonanza in Colombia in the 1990s," she adds. We're speaking at the Museo del Disco y la Música in Filandia, near Armenia. "We sang together for 10 years, touring in festivals across cities and towns in Colombia," Sur says. The duo won a prestigious award at the annual Mono Núñez Music Festival in 1994. Their repertoire was focused on Colombian Andean music genres, such as bambuco and pasillo. Victoria Sur started singing professionally as a teen during the '90s, as part of a folk music duo called Sombra y Luz ("Shadow and Light"). The plane took off, and I couldn't talk to anyone. "She said, 'Yes, we're going to Las Vegas.' She's one of the people who encouraged me to do this record, so I got very excited.
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"I couldn't believe, and I said, 'Are you serious?,'" she recalls with emotion about that moment. Minutes before Sur was about to board a flight from her hometown to Bogotá, she got an unexpected message from a dear friend. It's her sixth album, recorded with local musicians in Armenia, capital of the state of Quindío, in the heart of Colombia's coffee country. The album, Nanas Consentidoras – "Indulgent Lullabies" – was inspired by Sur's relationship with her twins, Valentina and Sebastián, now age 9. Among those nominees is Victoria Sur, a singer-songwriter whose newest album was nominated in the children's music category. 18 in a black-tie ceremony at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. When the Latin Grammy nominations were announced in September, Colombia took the lead with the most nods for this year's awards, which will be distributed Nov.