Diomede Diaz It is one of the icons that has defined the history of Colombia in recent years. Beyond the controversies that have always surrounded her figure, the acting talent of head of the council, who died in December 2013, is out of the question. The same could be said of his legacy which, far from being forgotten, not only remains alive in the memory of Colombians, but is still in the news.
An example of this is the fact that he is attributed the responsibility of freaking out to win the chance or the lottery from the afterlife, or in the recent online petition of some of his fans to collect signatures with the aim of appearing on The Simpsons.
This week the validity of the Cacique gave a new demonstration of its range, this time in the city of New York. In a video that went viral on TikTok in recent days, it is observed how a citizen of Barranquilla was surprised while using the subway in the Big Apple when she realized that Diomede’s famous song, ‘La Plata’ was playing.
The woman, identified as Mily on her TikTok account, accompanied the video with text that read:
“When you’re a coaster living in North Carolina, you vacation in New York and find Diomedes’ music on Subway”
The video shows the woman’s surprise at hearing a Diomedes Díaz song on the New York subway, leading her to pull out her cell phone to record what she was listening to, because the sound was coming from a floor above where she was. At that moment the young woman said to her laughter:
“That’s true. We’re in the New York subway listening to Diomede, I can’t believe it!”
In the clip, Diomede’s song is heard in the background, so the woman from Barranquilla went to look for the place where the song played. Once found, she couldn’t help but dance and sing to her rhythm accompanied by a friend, while it can be seen in the video that people who happened to be passing by watched the scene with surprise.
Subsequently, the place from which the song of Diomedes sounds is observed, to which the woman reacts by saying “My Father Must Be Proud: Diomedes in New York!”
Diomedes’ song was blaring because there was a street performer there who dances with a rag doll for a living. It was he himself who was in charge of putting the music to perform the act of him. In the video we see that the man is surrounded by onlookers who stopped to see him.
The video caused the laughter and pride of TikTok users, who on the one hand celebrated that Colombian music can be heard anywhere in the world, and on the other that the woman has found such a stroke of luck in the Great Apple.
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