Mario Gomez-Vignes

Portrait of the Colombian composer and pianist, one of his country’s most important classical musicians in the twentieth century.

August 6, 1956 during the military dictatorship of Rojas Pinilla. A military convoy loaded with dynamite explodes in the center of Cali, destroying a good part of the traditional buildings of the city and exposing the roots of some houses that for years had kept the secret stories of their inhabitants.