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Universe, a song that goes

by Jose Emilio Castellanos

Intense life as a singer and an advocate of freedom that led Haydée Mercedes Sosa, a descendant of the Aymara and French, who emerge into the world of musical art under the pseudonym of Gladys Osorio, later known as the Black Sosa, to become the new icon of American music: Mercedes Sosa.

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our meetings were various, from that recorded a few months after its emergence in the Latin American song. They speak of their origins, her childhood with her mother who encouraged in reading, in the midst of poverty, their colleagues Atahualpa Yupanqui, Jorge Cafrune, Horacio Guaraní, Violeta Parra, among others (a very young age she was married to another musician, Manuel Oscar Matus) libertarian sense of social justice that may have the edge, its conviction that the song can not be silenced with weapons or force.

His first album, "The Voice of the harvest "spent" under the table ", like" Songs with foundation. " Everything changed when Jorge Cafrune own, undisputed idol of crowds that followed the Argentine folklore with devotion, invited her to sing in the renowned Festival of Cosquín.

few months later would walk through the world, and when visiting Caracas for the first time, to sing on Channel 8 (VTV), founded by the Volmer family. His tour watching the U.S. and several European countries. There were days when they enjoyed democracy in countries plagued by dictatorships in the early 50's. The song was free and there were artists of the stature of Ariel Ramirez and Felix Luna, authors of the Cantata Sudamericana.

Everything is interrupted with the arrival of military dictatorships in Argentina, Chile and Brazil. Mercedes is stopped in the development of a concert in La Plata, in the stage and before a stunned crowd, who also was detained by the military. The episode ended with his exile in France and Spain. In those years Cafrune death occurs in an accident that left doubts about the procedures of the dictatorship, and her second husband also died of Mercedes.

already dying the military dictatorship, he returned to Buenos Aires, but Argentina has to leave again. Two years later, when President Raul Alfonsin, returns triumphantly selling out the Opera Theatre of Buenos Aires. Comes renewed and extensive repertoire with other genres of music, including rock and tango, to take another dimension to your vocal cords.

I remember when I said "sing what happened to me, what happens to us all, singing against injustice. You can not sing in fear. I was not afraid when I was arrested, when they threatened me squads Triple A. You can not you be afraid to sing. "
I remembered one of their songs and the words of his ator, Horacio Guaraní, who also walked in his footsteps as a refugee by the Venezuela of the 70 ... "If the singer is silent, silent life, because life itself is a song. "