"Magos manages to create a new style of Latin scat. It is innovative but clearly jazz and when she does her improvisations off the composed melodies it is a mind-blowing experience." ~ Rudy Garcia, Miami Herald, 11/19/2005
Based in NYC since 2007, she has recorded with Saxophonist Tim Ries for the Rolling Stones Jazz Project and for contemporary composer Paola Prestini for John Zorn label. For over 10 years Magos has performed in international arts centers, at festivals and concert halls such as Lincoln Center, NYC, Millennium Park in Chicago, Knitting Factory, Teatro de la Ciudad de Mexico, and Sala Galileo Galilei in Madrid. She has 4 CD recordings including “Orchideas Susurrantes,” “Pais Maravilla” and “Todo Puede Inspirar,” 2 international compilations for Brazil and Japan, and is part of the acclaimed “Mexican Divas” CD series.
Her career started in Italy in 1988 where she decided to become professionally involved with music, and then graduated from the "Musicians Institute" in Los Angeles. Over the past 4 years, through her pro-active love for music, she produced and hosted 2 TV shows that promoted music for Mexico’s TV, Channel 22, and featured guest stars Ute Lemper, Jerry Gonzalez, Diego el Cigala, among many others.
Magos will be releasing her 6th CD in the spring of 2009, featuring guitarist Lionel Loueke and pianist Aaron Goldberg. This CD is produced by Tim Ries, saxophonist of the Rolling Stones.
La Espera
Magos Herrera Lyrics
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Su perfil y su impureza
Una flor lleva en su pelo
Un mirar distante en la memoria
Carnavales ya lejanos
Mascarado el rey de ayer
A revelarse con un beso
Para al fin decir "Amor"
Años se pasaban y el desvelo
El silencio ante la marcha de su anhelo, era vivir
Pena que en su pecho dibujaba
Una danza silenciosa, una danza de dos pies
Y espera como esperan los secretos
A develarse con un beso
Para el fin decir "Amor"
Y esperar que en la vida no hay sentido
Dejar perder en el olvido
Lo que un día quise yo
Morir en la esperanza de su pez
Sueño que seduce a una mujer
Un cuento un verano, esperar
Y esperar como esperan los secretos
A develarse con un beso
Para el fin decir "Amor"
The lyrics of "La Espera" by Magos Herrera is about a woman who waits for love. The first stanza describes the woman's appearance, with a white dress, sadness, and impurity. She also wears a flower in her hair. The second stanza mentions the distant memories of past carnales, where the king of yesterday was masked. The chorus repeats the line "and wait like secrets wait to be revealed with a kiss, to finally say 'love'." The woman waits for love, as the years pass and her dreams fade away. The pain in her chest is illustrated through a silent dance, as she waits for love like secrets wait to be revealed with a kiss. The final lines describe a woman who waits for the hope of love, with dreams that seduce her. She waits for love like secrets wait to be revealed with a kiss.
Line by Line Meaning
Un vestido blanco, una tristeza
A white dress, a sadness.
Su perfil y su impureza
Her profile and her impurity.
Una flor lleva en su pelo
She wears a flower in her hair.
Un mirar distante en la memoria
A distant gaze in memory.
Carnavales ya lejanos
Carnivals already distant.
Mascarado el rey de ayer
Yesterday's masked king.
Y espera como esperan los secretos
And she waits like secrets wait.
A revelarse con un beso
To be revealed with a kiss.
Para al fin decir "Amor"
To finally say "Love".
Años se pasaban y el desvelo
Years passed and the restlessness.
El silencio ante la marcha de su anhelo, era vivir
The silence before the departure of her longing, was to live.
Pena que en su pecho dibujaba
Sadness that she drew in her chest.
Una danza silenciosa, una danza de dos pies
A silent dance, a dance of two feet.
Y espera como esperan los secretos
And she waits like secrets wait.
A develarse con un beso
To be revealed with a kiss.
Para el fin decir "Amor"
To finally say "Love".
Y esperar que en la vida no hay sentido
And to hope that life has no meaning.
Dejar perder en el olvido
To let go and forget.
Lo que un día quise yo
What I once wanted.
Morir en la esperanza de su pez
To die in the hope of her fish.
Sueño que seduce a una mujer
A dream that seduces a woman.
Un cuento un verano, esperar
A summer tale, waiting.
Y esperar como esperan los secretos
And she waits like secrets wait.
A develarse con un beso
To be revealed with a kiss.
Para el fin decir "Amor"
To finally say "Love".
Contributed by Lauren J. Suggest a correction in the comments below.