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If you want to make millions in the Latin American art market just buy a great and well known piece of modern art from an established artist and keep it for 500 years!
Well, that is one method and hey, it might work. But there are a number of Latin American artists around now whose work is still very reasonably priced and could very well appreciate rapidly over the next few years. There is Jose Bedia, Francisco Toledo, Tomas Sanchez, Claudio Bravo, De Szyszlo, Ana Mercedes Hoyos, Miguel de la Espriella (“Noble”) or even Fernando Botero to give as examples.
Yes, strange though it may seem you can still get a very well priced Botero if you look around carefully. In Colombia there are a number of galleries and dealers who will do so for you. So if you are a serious art investor you may well still be able to take advantage of international conditions and the internet.
Due to the high penetration of the internet Latin art work is today experiencing a renaissance of sorts in the art market with national artists such as Peru
There’s a brand new R&B performer on the charts who makes hot new music, and he is reconfiguring preconceived ideas of what radio friendly, r&b, or pop tunes should be like. Traditionally, popular music has been considered fun fluff – meaning, it’s like cotton candy. Enjoyable and fun for the moment but never what would be described as substantial or meaningful.
It usually focuses on a few ubiquitous topics, such as falling in love or out of love, and it utilizes about fifty rhyming words that show up in the millions of songs put out by the thousands of artists that all sound exactly the same (for example, “love” and “above” – you get the idea). This is the kind of music you would use if you had a personal trainer certification and teach an aerobics class. On the flipside, you have what could be described} as serious music. This would encompass types of music such as jazz or classical, or even lyrically witty and more adult style groups such as Dave Matthews band. This music is great, but is not what would be described as fun, or the kind of music that makes you want to get up and shake your booty. There’s serious music and then there’s fun music – and never the twain shall meet. Until now.
With his new song Big for Me, Jd Webb is shifting those ideas and categories upside down. When I was first given Webb’s single to review as a niche marketing webmaster with many music sites, honestly, I was thinking it would be your typical R&B dance jam. “I give it a 10, it’s got a good beat, you can dance to it,” kind of music. And Big for Me certainly is danceable fun for your iPod or for the club, to be sure. But it also explores a deeper concept. It’s not just about that heady sensation of first attraction – it’s about a character who is shocked at he sees himself making changes in his life to accommodate his love interest and be more conducive to their shared life. This is not how he usually acts, which is why he says, “That’s Big for Me.”
The song starts with the idea of falling in love and explores it on a level that is deeper and more fascinating than the surface. And any person that’s been in love can tell you that the feelings on that level of love are just as strong and just as awesome as the first infatuation – actually, more so! In the same way, Webb’s music has started with the Pop genre and explored it on a level that’s deeper and more interesting. And, just like love itself, that’s made it so much fuller and richer – and infinitely better.