Big Mountain, American band that shattered the charts in 1994 with its famous version of the song “Baby, I Love Your Way”, Belonging to the film's soundtrack “Reality Bites”, Return with the subject “Deportation Nation”, dedicated to undocumented immigrants.
Joaquin “Cinchona” Mcwhinney, who together with his brother James lead the group, They had already denounced the situation on the Mexican-American border with the song “Border Town”, of his album “Unity”.
“THE OBJECTIVE When writing ‘Affection Nation’ It was to remember that no one is illegal. Without the undocumented, The system could not be maintained. It is ignorant and disrespectful to treat people like this. I am not a spiritual person, But we are all the same before the eyes of God”, commented to the agency Efe.
The McWhinney somehow live this reality as they are Americans of Mexican origin who raised in the border city of San Diego (California), after his maternal grandparents farmers emigrated from Chihuahua to the US at the beginning of the 20th century.
The group rolled the video clip on the border wall between the two countries and launched a documentary of the single, All in charge of the Colombian filmmaker Juan Zapata.
“Of.uu. Immigrants has taken advantage of for decades. For President Donald Trump it is easy. It is also easy for ignorant to fall into that trap”, The singer -songwriter declared.
“Deportation Nation”, which criticizes the separation of families on the Mexican-American border, supposes the return of Big Mountain after 10 years of absence and after becoming fashionable with the tape “Jumanji”, one of the most successful of last year, which included its version of “Baby, I Love Your Way”, Peter Frampton theme, In the soundtrack.
“Everyone knows that song, But few know the name of the group. We have that problem around the world”, McWhinney admitted.
The group leader, what in 1995 He went through the stage of Viña del Mar, And what was it, somehow, pioneer of “reggae” In Spanish with topics such as “A sensual love”, Also of the album “Unity”, still consider they have “An important message and we are still good musicians, We should listen to more people”.
About reggae, He said it is a music that “Try to connect with our past”.
“In times when the president says that we do not belong to this land, You have to remember the youth that you must feel proud of its roots and resist the forces you want to forget who you are. For us, that's ‘reggae '”, He ended.
