Javiera Morales

              My whole life has been surrounded by 70's and 80’s music, because I share the same taste of music that my mom has, we both love rock music. She was the one who showed me the most important band of my life: “Queen”. And since that day my life changed completely.    But Queen wasn't the first music from those decades that I ever heard.  So let's start with the beginning of everything. As I said before, my mother is a rock fan, her favorite band is Rush, instead, my father loves electronic music, but they are both fans of The Cure and Depeche Mode. When I was about three or four years old, that was all I used to listen to, because my dad played their music every time I was in his car.   Years later, when I was nine, my mom brought to our house a CD of Queen's greatest hits. Since that day I stopped listening to anything somebody else put on the radio or whatever was popular at that time. Since that day, I was the person who put the music on the car. The first

  Certain kinds of music can make you “travel” to another place, even if you are not there. That's what happens when you listen to Los Jaivas´ “Las Alturas de Macchu Picchu”. The music is so well composed, that it brings the atmosphere of this sacred and mystic Inca settlement to your mind. But it's a whole different experience when you hear it in the same place that inspired it. When you visit Machu Picchu, you finally understand what this place meant to the Incas, and realize how the words written by Pablo Neruda perfectly describe the place. I have been there once, it was an unforgettable experience, that's why I want to go back to Perú and stay for a month, visit cities like Lima, stay longer in Cuzco to learn more about the Incas and their history, spend a whole day in Machu Picchu and climb the Huayna Picchu, because I couldn't do it when I went two years ago.  But most of all, I want to listen to Los Jaivas´ “Alturas de Machu Picchu” in this mystical place again.