الموسيقى اللاتينية מוזיקה לטינית Mercedes Sosa Gracias a la vida

Mercedes Sosa (born July 9, 1935) is an Argentine singer immensely popular throughout Latin America. With her roots in Argentine folk music, she became one of the preeminent exponents of nueva canción. Sosa is nicknamed "La Negra" by her fans for her long, jet-black hair. She is best known as the voice of the "voiceless ones".

Sosa was born in San Miguel de Tucumán, in the northwestern province of Argentina, of mestizo descent from French and Amerindian (Quechuan) ancestry. In 1950, at age fifteen, she won a singing competition organized by a local radio station and was given a contract to perform for two months.


Mercedes Sosa in 2005, with Argentine's then first lady Cristina Fernández de KirchnerSosa and her first husband, Manuel Oscar Matus, with whom she has one son, were key players in the mid-60s nueva canción movement (which was called nuevo cancionero in Argentina). Her first record was Canciones con Fundamento, a collection of Argentine folk songs.

In 1967, Sosa toured with great success the United States and Europe. In subsequent years, she performed and recorded extensively, broadening her repertoire to include material from throughout Latin America.

In the early 1970s, Sosa released two concept albums in collaboration with composer Ariel Ramírez and lyricist Félix Luna: Cantata Sudamericana and Mujeres Argentinas (Argentine Women). She also recorded a tribute to Chilean poet Violeta Parra.

A supporter of Perón in her youth, she has favored leftist causes throughout her life. After the military junta of Jorge Videla came to power in 1976, the atmosphere in Argentina grew increasingly oppressive. At a concert in La Plata in 1979, Sosa was searched and arrested on stage, along with the attending crowd. Banned in her own country, she moved to Paris and then to Madrid. Her second husband died in 1978.

Sosa returned to Argentina in 1982, several months before the military regime collapsed as a result of the Falklands War, and gave a series of concerts at the Opera Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, where she invited many of her younger colleagues to share the stage. A double album of recordings from these performances became an instant best seller.

In the following years, Sosa continued to tour both in Argentina and abroad, performing in such venues as the Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall and the Mogador in París.

Sosa's repertoire continued to broaden, and she made recordings in various styles. She collaborated frequently with many musicians such as Luciano Pavarotti, Sting, Lucio Dalla, Nana Mouskouri, Joan Baez, Andrea Bocelli, Silvio Rodríguez, Pablo Milanés, Milton Nascimento, Caetano Veloso, Chico Buarque, Gal Costa, Gian Marco, Konstantin Wecker, Nilda Fernández, Pata Negra, David Broza, Franco Battiato, Luz Casal, Ismael Serrano, Shakira.
Sosa participated in a 1999 production of the Misa Criolla by Ariel Ramírez.
She opposed the Argentine president Carlos Menem who was in office from 1989 to 1999. She supported the election of Néstor Kirchner who became president in 2003.
Sosa is UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for Latin America and the Caribbean.She has won the Latin Grammy Award for Best Folk Album in 2000 ("Misa Criolla"), 2003 ("Acústico") and 2006 ("Corazón Libre"), as well as many international awards.
Sosa's song Balderrama is featured in the trailer for the 2008 movie Che, starring Benicio Del Toro.

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[lubreko]

Gracias...Mercedes!!!! El Salvador te Ama..!!!!!!!

[lachi1973]

Gracias mercedes en cuba siempre te recordaremos.

[2Lenin]

Excellent while life grants some people lots of good memories it has given many people hell but a good song .

[StrongBearSeeking]

muy emocionante que tira al corazon y a la alma de uno,muchas gracias Sra.Mercedes Sosa

[jorgano62]

Gracias Mercedes por tanta emoción que nos contagiaste con tu voz, que Dios te tenga a su lado disfrutando de tan hermosa voz. Quedarás por siempre en la memoria de quienes te escuchamos.

[paranoicocritico07]

VIVA NEGRITA QUERIDA!

[zolaret]

Eterna y universal!!!!

Merecedes Sosa!!!!

Y allí van... Parte del aire

Y allí van... en libertad ...

...

[mezereum]

Gracias por todo.

[sebastiancitogabriel]

excelente tema...se nos fue una grande...no paro de llorar...eternamente Mercedes!! gracias por amar ttanto a este pais!

[srvblues49]

BRAVO MERCEDESS!!!! admiración por vos querida negra