Can Tim Tebow Save Latin Music?
Posted on 15. Jan, 2012 by Hector Aviles in Blog
With Tim Tebow’s football season now over, perhaps we can persuade him to switch his attention to Latin Music. Perhaps Latin music doesn’t need to be “saved”, but I can think of 2 ways in which Tim Tebow could spray his Mile-High magic dust to give us a hand in Latin music, and perhaps we can learn something in the way:
1. Reinstate the Latin Jazz category in the Grammy Awards: Tim Tebow replaced the original quarterback starter in Denver after the team had a horrible start in its 1st four games, and he ended riding the Broncos to the playoffs. Perhaps Tebow can replace Neil Paltrow as NARAS Chairman, reinstate the 31 music categories eliminated, including Latin Jazz, do a 2 minute drill for nominations, and get our Latin Jazz into the playoffs…err…Grammys. With the Grammy ceremony scheduled for February, this would be like his overtime touchdown pass to win his 1st playoff game!!!
2. Increase sales of Salsa Cristiana: Salsa Cristiana (Christian Salsa) has had its ups and downs, just like every other music genre. Salsa artists like Richie Ray & Bobby Cruz, Tony Vega, Juan Luis Guerra, Alex D’ Castro, and others have recorded it with less than stellar results. Tim Tebow has made “one-knee praying” a fad, and perhaps he can revive Salsa Cristiana to be the new fad in discos and clubs all over San Juan, New York, Miami, and Latin America. We can have new Merengue Cristiano from Juan Luis Guerra and Milly Quezada. We might see the return of Richie Ray and Bobby Cruz (for the 3rd time) and with Tim Tebow’s help, Ismael Miranda’s planned 2 Salsa Cristiana albums this year will become mega-hits!
Like Reaguetton and its explicit lyrics a few year ago, which coincided with a decline in our social living standards (oops, did I just say that? – well, I just said “coincided” not “caused”), perhaps a resurgence of Salsa Cristiana will “coincide” with a social re-adoption of some of our good social values that seem to have been lost in the past few years.
Can Tim Tebow do all that? With all the media publicity Tim Tebow has gotten, and the super powers attributed to him, the above seems very realistic. But perhaps we don’t need Tim Tebow. Perhaps all we need is to believe that good things can and will happen if we keep our faith (whatever that is) and act. And “act” we must.
If you recall, when Tim Tebow took over the quarterback position and started winning, some doubters didn’t believe in him, even his own team’s front office, saying his game fundamentals weren’t solid, his passing rate was the lowest in the league, etc., etc.. Yet, Tim Tebow kept his focus in doing the best he could to win, even when he played bad for 3 quarters of the game and in the last quarter performed miraculous comebacks.
Perhaps buried in the whole Tim Tebow-mania thingy, there is a lesson to be learned.
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