The good and bad of music in Nicaragua

This is one of our favourite songs from our time in Nicaragua. It's a lovely folk song which we think would make a great replacement for the dreary national anthem. The words have been conveniently translated into English for non-Spanish speakers.

Bizarrely, most of the Western music in Nicaragua is at least twenty years old. There's an unnerving amount of poor commercial disco from the Village People to unknown lost 'classics' (see Best of Disco 1983). But the song we've heard more than any other on bus journeys across the north of the country is this slice of 80s classic soft-rock love cheese, by mullet-clad stadium rockers, Air Supply: Making Love Out of Nothing At All. The video is quite something.