Aria Vega will walk into Shakira's Macondo in Madrid carrying a Macondo of her own, and for the 29-year-old Colombian artist, that distinction is important.
Long before Shakira transformed her massive Madrid residency into Macondo Park, an immersive celebration of Latin music, literature, fashion, food, and culture inspired by Gabriel García Márquez's fictional universe, Vega had been using the same word to describe the very real place at the center of her music: Barranquilla.
