Who is Mercedes Sosa?
Argentine folk singer Mercedes Sosa is considered to be the most famous and successful music artist Argentina. It is recognized all over the world and has performed in about thirty countries. Between 1959 and 2005, Mercedes Sosa released over 40 albums. She is considered to be her beautiful counter -voice and her moving texts that often revolve around social issues. Mercedes Sosa is perhaps as activist as a music artist.
Haydée Mercedes Sosa was born on July 9, 1935 in the Argentine province of Tucuman. With her modest start and descent Mestizo, Mercedes Sosa was immersed in folk culture from the beginning. She grew up with recognition and passion for folk music and danzas folcloricas or folk dances. When Mercedes Sosa was 15, she competed and won the competition in her home province of Tucuman. For her victory, Mercedes Sosa won a two -month contract for performance with the local radio SA of her spectacular career was moved.
Her mid -20. This movement, which began in the 1960s in the province of Mendoza, called for a return from popular and fleeting trends in music and focusing on folk music roots and Citann Argentine life. Her songs gave the daily emotions and experience of Argentine people.
In 1965, Mercedes Sosa performed at the National Folklore Festival in Cosquin, Argentina, an event that stiffened her deserved glory. Maybe it was where Mercedes Sosa began to create her status as a "voice of the voyers". Sosa would continue to develop this identity later, in a period of political shock in Argentin, it would send her to exile and would have it for the disappearance of thousands of young people.
During the 70s of the 20th century, the political climate in Argentina grew stormy and repressive but Mercedes Sosa continuedShe was in the production and record of folk music, her albums full of social and political content. In 1979, however, the political voice of Sosa finally led to retribution and during the concert performance was arrested together with participation in fans. After her arrest, Mercedes Sosa was forbidden to sing in Argentina.
cannot be done deeply meaningful and content songs that defined it have fled from its home country. Sosa continued her career in voluntary exile in the countries of France and Spain until her return to Argentina in the 80s. As Mercedes Sosa returned, he began to sing folk music again. She continued to offer a voice without the unseen to put it into the state of Argentine people who came to embody.