Luis Alberto Posada is one of the defining voices of Colombian música popular, the cantina and heartbreak tradition heard across Antioquia and the coffee region. Fans know him as El Caballo de la Música Popular.
He was born in Cartago, Valle del Cauca, in 1962, moved to Medellín as a teenager, and began recording in the 1980s with the Ecuadorian singer Julio Jaramillo as his model. More than twenty albums later he is still one of the genre's biggest live draws, and in 2019 the Colombian Congress recognised his forty year career with the Simón Bolívar distinction. Songs such as "El Precio de Tu Error" and "Me Tomas y Me Dejas" are standards of the style.
His music deals almost entirely in love, betrayal and moving on, sung plainly and without decoration. That is what makes him good listening for a learner: the vocabulary is everyday Spanish and the feeling is never hidden.