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, 20
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
T'is a sad day. She was hugely important in her time, helping -along
with Atahualpa Yupanqui and Violeta Parra- inspire the whole Nueva
Cancion movement, which came to be best exemplified by Victor Jara,
Quilapayun, and Inti Illimani.
There are fewer and fewer composers and performers from th
Néstor Gorojovsky wrote:
> 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.
