The drunken rhythm of the salsa saints. Play it as it lays. Ormus and Vina's music crosses all frontiers, rising above the limits of family, clan, nation, and race and flying over the minefields of turf and taboo. Upon her death, mourners on the front lines of the world's armed conflicts lay down their weapons to embrace. When Vina dies, the American consumer machine cashes in.
Scandals come to light under frenzied radio, TV, and press coverage.
Drama and music critics immediately hold public panels. Then come the retrospectives, tribute albums, charitable donations, and memorial concerts. Gary Larson draws Vina's cartoon. Feminists, intellectuals, priests, cultural studies gurus, and psychoanalysts all weigh in on the Vina phenomenon. TV producers look for Vina look-alikes.