For Gabriel García Márquez, his work "One Hundred Years of Solitude" was a kind of "long vallenato"

Chabuco, a renowned Colombian singer-songwriter, and Martín Nova, director and producer of the documentary "Leyenda Viva", analyzed what helped vallenato become an international phenomenon.

For Chabuco, the accordion and, above all, the accordion player, are undoubtedly the soul of this Colombian folk genre.

While for Nova, the lyrics of the songs are the key to success.

He recalled that the Nobel Prize for Literature Gabriel García Márquez stated that his work "One Hundred Years of Solitude" was a "long vallenato".