Raíces árabes means Arab roots
Posted on YouTube in 2013
This is a video from Live in Argentina. It showed Mario Kirlis (1957-2023), who was a famous Argentine musician. Jf you listen to him speak, he was the Argentine-born son of Greek immigrants to Argentina.
The areas he grew up in were a mix of Greeks, Arabs, and Jews. He got along with all of them. However, the third largest ethnicity in Argentina is the Arabs. And so, if he was going to play music for a living, he would make more money playing Arabic music.
He became a world famous maestro of Arabic music, playing and composing, he toured all over the world, even to Arabic countries themselves.
The video was from 2013, but it shows the penetration of Arabic culture in Argentina.
