Gracias a mi mamá @carmen1659 por invitarme a esta iniciativa la cuál, con tan solo leer sus participaciones me ha dado mucha nostalgia. Yo nací en 1985, por lo tanto de los años 80 casi no recuerdo nada, conservo muy poquitos recuerdos, la generación en la que crecí y recuerdo perfectamente es la de los años 90 y obviamente que los discos de vinilo estaban muy presentes. En casa teníamos un tocadiscos de aguja automática, toda una novedad 😄 y había un mueble en el que mi mamá y mi papá tenían sus discos. Recuerdo haber visto muchos discos de merengue: Ruby Pérez, Wilfrido Vargas, Las Chicas del Can, pero en especial recuerdo la colección de la orquesta favorita de mi papá, Los Melódicos, es una orquesta venezolana que a mi papá siempre le ha gustado mucho, también tenía la colección de La Billos Caracas Boys, y recuerdo que los fines de semana cuando mi papá no tenía que ir a trabajar escuchaba sus discos a todo volumen y mi mamá bailaba conmigo 😊.

Thanks to my mom @carmen1659 for inviting me to this initiative, which just by reading their participation has made me so nostalgic. I was born in 1985, so I hardly remember anything from the 80s, I have very few memories, the generation I grew up in and remember perfectly is the 90s and obviously vinyl records were very present. At home we had a self-winding record player, a complete novelty 😄 and there was a piece of furniture where my mom and dad had their records. I remember seeing a lot of merengue records: Ruby Pérez, Wilfrido Vargas, Las Chicas del Can, but I especially remember the collection of my dad's favorite orchestra, Los Melódicos, it's a Venezuelan orchestra that my dad has always liked a lot, he also had the collection of La Billos Caracas Boys, and I remember that on weekends when my dad didn't have to go to work he would listen to their records at full volume and my mom would dance with me 😊.

In my grandfather's house there was a huge collection, really huge with records of all kinds, and I still think they are there: my grandfather's tangos, my uncle's collection of La Fania, Willie Colón, Dimensión Latina and everything related to salsa, and several Billy Joel records from my aunt, but what I remember with special affection and nostalgia (and perhaps those of my generation here present who are from Venezuela will agree with me) was my personal collection of Popy and the clowns Nifú Ni Fá, I will tell you a couple of anecdotes about it.

One of the most beautiful memories I have but at the same time the most frustrating, is that one of my cousins ​​always came to my house to listen to Popy, Juan Corazón and the Payasitas Nifú Nifá, but one time she and I started to argue, I don't even remember why but I think it was because she wanted to listen to a specific album and I wanted to listen to another, so she grabbed that Popy album by one end and I by the other, we started to struggle and the inevitable happened 😨, the cardboard cover cracked in the middle, she fell to the left, I to the right, each of us holding one half, and even though absolutely nothing happened to the vinyl record itself, it hurt me to see the destroyed cover, so I started to cry 😭

Another much more pleasant memory that I have was reactivated when I read about my mother's participation in this initiative, since it was from the same day that my father gave her the Carlos Vives album. That day he said to me, "I have a surprise for you too." He reached into my shopping bag and took out the latest album by the Payasitas Nifú Nifá. I screamed with excitement because I had been asking for it for a long time. I even remember that during that Carnival season, one of my aunts, the most creative one, used the cover of that album as inspiration to make costumes for my cousins ​​and me. Each of us would be a Nifú Nifá clown (I was the one with the pink wig because she was my favorite).

It was a time of true innocence, children's music was exactly that, for children, there was no reggaeton, music was not vulgar, it was constructive, it was made to evolve, in fact I remember with special affection when I went to visit my cousins ​​​​and together we listened to the albums of Enrique and Ana (a Spanish duo) there was one specifically where the lyrics of the songs were the multiplication tables, so just by memorizing the lyrics we were already learning something useful that would last us a lifetime 😃.

This initiative was very beneficial for me, I loved it, really, it brought back very nice memories, so I would like to invite my sister @bethyjade although I don't think she has any memories since she wasn't part of the vinyl record generation, however I remember how surprised she was to know that you had to turn them over to hear the songs on the other side 😄 and I would also like to invite my friend @eugemaradona.

Imagen diseñada por mi en el editor de Canva.