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Volume 6 - December Ethnicities Magazine

December finally arrived, and this month brings for you the last issue of Ethnicities Magazine for this great year 2016. Please enjoy all the interesting topics we have in this issue for you about health, intersting and inspiring stories, about our afropanamanian gastronomoy and more. I invite you to read it from page one till the end, I guarantee you that everything your read will benefit you and all those around you. I want to specially thank our writers that every month send us interesting topics to share with Ethnicities Magazine readership. Please enjoy it and share with your family and friends. HAPPY HOLIDAYS.

December finally arrived, and this month brings for you the last issue of Ethnicities Magazine for this great year 2016. Please enjoy all the interesting topics we have in this issue for you about health, intersting and inspiring stories, about our afropanamanian gastronomoy and more.

I invite you to read it from page one till the end, I guarantee you that everything your read will benefit you and all those around you.

I want to specially thank our writers that every month send us interesting topics to share with Ethnicities Magazine readership.

Please enjoy it and share with your family and friends.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS.

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A recent press conference published by a local<br />

panamanian newspaper, La Estrella [August 12,<br />

2016] reveals that the artistic director of the already<br />

world-renowned Panama Jazz Festival, Danilo Pérez,<br />

shares his opinion that I advanced in my reflection of<br />

2003. “Green had a voice of extraordinary versatility.<br />

She used to play jazz, blues and made a break to<br />

a Latin American ballad or a calypso with amazing<br />

ease, “says the press release. “I’ve never heard anyone<br />

who has that versatility,” said Danilo Perez. “She<br />

had a very special voice and she was part of a very<br />

important movement in Panama that is the Afro-Panamanian<br />

Jazz, created by Victor Boa, Clarence<br />

Martín and other musicians of that size,” added the<br />

teacher.<br />

Violet had that virtue. Aside from being physically<br />

large (she was more than six feet tall) she had a<br />

dynamic artistic talent. With all her greatness, however,<br />

she was always a humble person especially to<br />

her grateful public, making it a heavy, even greater,<br />

weight in my estimation. Violeta Green transcended<br />

the arts of our country, and not infrequently.<br />

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