A Musical Dispatch from Uruguay’s “Atlantic Utopia”
AQ’s music columnist visits La Serena Festival de la Canción, put on by the Oscar-winning Drexler family.
This article is adapted from AQ's special report on Guatemala. Decades ago, the Drexler family used to spend their summers in a house near the lighthouse in the seaside town of La Paloma, three hours east of Montevideo. The resort became a gathering place for the Uruguayan family’s multiple budding artists, including brothers Jorge and Daniel Drexler and their cousin Ana Prada, who all reportedly wrote and premiered their early songs there. Now, the Drexlers’ musical careers are firmly established—along with their medical careers: following in their parents’ footsteps, the...
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