Yes, Mercedes is dead. A saddest thing, indeed. But her voice and songs will remain forever.
There are lots that I love, but perhaps the one I like best is the song she dedicated to the guerrilla woman of the Alto Perú during the wars of Emancipation, Juana Azurduy. "Juana Azurduy, flor del Alto Perú, no hay otro capitán más valiente que tú" And there is another beautiful song to "Manuela la tucumana", dedicated to Manuela Pedraza, a woman leader during the same wars who was later forgotten, in the end because she was a woman... Her political role has been somewhat amplified beyond her own compromises, perhaps. There are other great Arg female singers, who have suffered at least the same amount of persecution that Mercedes has, and perhaps more. One of them is Nelly Omar, persecuted after 1955 to the point that when some TV manager (Alejandro Romay) suggested her to return to the stage she didn´t have clothes worth the ocassion and had to go to scene covering herself with a red poncho that Romay gave her. She has been acting with that poncho forever since. She is still alive, however, and nearly 100 years old. Her voice, in a magical turn of life, is as full and brilliant as it was decades ago. Her sin? She sang "La Descamisada", a song to the Peronist woman, during the 1945-1955 era of Perón. 2009/10/4 Louis Proyect <[email protected]>: > latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-mew-mercedes-sosa5-2009oct05,0,5593730.story > > Argentine folk singer Mercedes Sosa dies at 74 > The latest album by the "voice of Latin America" is nominated for three > prizes in next month's Latin Grammy awards in Las Vegas. > > Associated Press > > 4:22 AM PDT, October 4, 2009 -- Néstor Gorojovsky El texto principal de este correo puede no ser de mi autoría ________________________________________________ YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
