Expand Your Worldview through Music

In pondering the complexities of what it means to be an immigrant, Jorge Drexler’s song, Movimiento (Movement) poetically grounds us in our shared human nature to constantly be in movement – if not immigrants ourselves, we are descendents of immigrants. Drexler is an Uruguayan singer-songwriter whose grandparents fled Nazi Germany.

Some lyrics from Movimiento:

Listen to Movimiento (mow - bee - mee - EHN - tow) while watching the stunning music video featuring the Rarámuri indigenous runner, Lorena Ramirez. The video is filmed in the Sierra Tarahumara (the Spanish word for Rarámuri) in Chihuahua, Mexico.

*¡Ojo! Notice how “immigrant” in Spanish – inmigrante – has an “n” where you wouldn’t expect it. Click and try the pronunciation along with the native speaker → een - mee - grahn - teh

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Learn more about the Rarámuri and how they have resisted assimilation - Spanish Version, English version NYT article.

Click here for a side-by-side Spanish-English translation of the song.