The song authored by Omar Geles has been sung generation after generation by Colombians who feel identified with their emotional lyrics of struggle and survival of a mother who heads the family.
“I composed that song in 1992 when remembering the difficulties of childhood where she was our heroine. That brave, hard-working and capable woman who fought to get us ahead. I never thought the song would get into everyone’s hearts, but it keeps playing and that fills my heart with joy and even more so knowing that it is for my old Hilda,” said Omar Geles in the middle of an interview with Vicsari.
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Initially, Omar Geles told Codiscos that he did not want to record this song, since it was a very personal song dedicated to his mother; However, he decided to sing it in the company of ‘Los Diablitos’ and so far it has more than 34 versions sung by different artists.
“When my father left the house there were very hard moments, my mother washed other people’s clothes, she washed clothes for anyone who could pay, she did it to eat. and they were moments that served as a launching platform to dream,” he pointed out about the lyrics of this vallenato.
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What did Omar Geles’ mother say when she heard the lyrics of ‘The Paths of Life?’
“When I heard it I cried because in a few minutes Omar told all the work I went through to raise my children,” she said at the time.
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“Regarding the father’s absence, I left him because he wanted to have two wives and that wasn’t the case. That’s why I fought to support them and today I have grateful children. I can say that doing my job as a mother helped me earn a beautiful song that It can be heard everywhere,” he concluded in an emotional way.
