César Isella
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Cesar Isella argentinian
singer and songwriter of folk music. He joined Los Fronterizos
(The Bordermen) from 1956 to 1966, was one of the main figures of the "Movement of the New Songbook", and in the 1990s he discovered and sponsored the singer Soledad Pastorutti
. He has written the music for "Canción con todos" (Song with everyone,) regarded as the Latin American anthem.
In 1954, at age 17, Isella joined the group "Los Sin Nombre" (The Nameless), next to Thomas "Tutu" Campos, Javier E. Pantaleon, Luis Gualter Menu, and Higa. The first two end up forming Los Cantores del Alba (The dawn singers) and the third, Los de Salta. The Nameless came to act with Ariel Ramirez
, in a presentation at the Salta Hotel.
Los Fronterizos recorded five songs by Isella when he was still part of the group: "La fiera" (Hechizo), "Se lo llevó el carnaval"" (Voces mágicas), "Guitarreando" (Voces mágicas), "Corazón guitarrero" and "Un abrazo a Corrientes" (Color en folklore). After that, without Isella, recorded others for: "Los seguidores" (Sangre fronteriza), "Canción de lejos" (Desde el corazón...), "Viento no más" (Cantando), "Paloma y laurel"(Hoy!!). With Los Fronterizos, in 1964, participated in the historic original recording of "Misa Criolla", by Ariel Ramírez, considered the supreme work of argentine music.
Cesar Isella account then follows:
Isella then adhere fervently to the tenets of Movement of the New Songbook, which had launched Tejada Gómez, Mercedes Sosa, Mendoza Matus and other artists in 1963. In this new artistic line in 1968, released his first solo album called Estoy de vuelta (I'm back) which includes topics such as the beautiful "Zamba para no morir" (Zamba not to die) by Hamlet Lima Quintana, and also a tango
, the famous "Milonga triste" from Homero Manzi
and Sebastián Piana.
In 1969 composed the music for "Canción con todos" (Song with all), to which the poet Armando Tejada Gómez I added lyrics, a topic that has been designated by the UNESCO
as Anthem from Latin America
and translated into thirty languages. In 1970 submitted along with Tejada Gómez and Los Trovadores (The Bards), the show "Young America". In 1974 won the Martín Fierro Award
for his radio program "Argentina canta así" (Argentina sings), broadcast by Radio Continental
of Buenos Aires.
During the military dictatorship-called National Reorganization Process
(1976–1983), Isella was included in the lists of censorship as ("Canción con todos") "Song with all". Among the plays performed in those years highlights the album Juanito Laguna (1976), the child character of the painter Antonio Berni
, with music and poetry of Ástor Piazzolla
, Horacio Ferrer, Atahualpa Yupanqui
, Gustavo Leguizamón, Manuel J. Castilla, Armando Tejada Gómez, Eduardo Falu
, Jaime Davalos and himself. The album was abducted by the military regime, prohibiting its distribution.
He returned to Argentina on 29 October 1983, when he had been democratically elected President Raúl Alfonsín
, at which time it provided a pointed recital at the Estadio Obras Sanitarias. At the time of return from exile, Isella participated in historical performances, as he did in the Luna Park with Horacio Guarani, the Cosquín Festival
in the summer of 1984 and Sanitation mass readings of Silvio Rodríguez
and Pablo Milanés
, singers censored by the military regime.
In 1984 he made with Victor Heredia
and Quartet Zupay the show "Song for poetry," poems set to music composed by Pablo Neruda
, Maria Elena Walsh
and José Pedroni
presented with a resounding success in the Luna Park, recital which later was released on an album that sold 300,000 copies. That year also made an unprecedented call for young authors, receiving more than 1,000 songs, of which selected ten, with which he composed his album dawn Fragile.
In 1985 presented in the Teatro Alvear in Buenos Aires "Isella to All", with the participation of Armando Tejada Gómez, the Cuchi Leguizamón, Los Trovadores, Teresa Parodi, Los Carabajal, the National Argentinean Folk Ballet of the Chúcaro and Norma Viola and The Huancara, among others. That same year, even during the government's dictatorship Augusto Pinochet
, it was reintroduced in Chile
, after thirteen years of ban.
In 1987 started a radio program broadcast music by Radio Excelsior (then Radio La Red), which continues until today (2008). In 1993 made the album Song to benefit all of the UNESCO
, in which the famous theme song is played Joan Manuel Serrat
, Silvio Rodriguez, Pablo Milanes, Tania Libertad
, Guadalupe Pineda
, Jairo, Manuel Mijares
, Osvaldo Pugliese
, Inti Illimani, Miguel Mateos
, Ástor Piazzolla
, Atahualpa Yupanqui
, Lito Vitale
and himself. The album received the ACE Awards.
In 1995, on the occasion of the Meeting of the Ibero-American Summit
in Punta Arenas, Chile
, sings "Song to everybody," and makes singing group leaders Latin Americans, including Fidel Castro
, King Juan Carlos I of Spain, Felipe González
, Eduardo Frei
and others. That same year he participates All the Voices Festival, organized in Quito
by Ecuadorian painter Oswaldo Guayasamin
, along with prominent Latin American singers, at that time gave him his portrait Guayasamín dedicated.
Between 1995 and 1997, for three successive editions, he directed the "Official Peña National Folklore Festival Cosquin
, developing a policy for participation of young artists. Some of the singers that emerged in these presentations are Ruben Patagonia, Adrian Maggi, Soledad
, Luciano Pereyra
, Los Tekis and others.
In 1999 United States
bought the rights to "Song with all" to be studied in high schools as nonmetallic study of music and Latin American culture.
In 2007, coinciding with the 50-year career, Isella released the album50 yearssimple things and an autobiography.
He was Director General of the Teatro General San Martín
, and vice president of the Sociedad Argentina de Autores y Compositores de Música
(SADAIC). It musicalizado poets like Nicolas Guillen
, José Pedroni
and Pablo Neruda
. Apart from "Song to everybody," Isella has composed many outstanding songs, including "Animaná Fire," "Song of the simple things," "song by far," "Song for awakening a black (poetry of Nicolás Guillén
), "Song of Tenderness," "The nation divided" (poetry by Pablo Neruda, etc.).
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
singer and songwriter of folk music. He joined Los Fronterizos
Los Fronterizos
Los Fronterizos is an Argentine musical band consisting of four men. The group was established in 1953 in the northern province of Salta -- bordering on Bolivia -- from which "Los Fronterizos" is derived....
(The Bordermen) from 1956 to 1966, was one of the main figures of the "Movement of the New Songbook", and in the 1990s he discovered and sponsored the singer Soledad Pastorutti
Soledad Pastorutti
Soledad "La Sole" Pastorutti is an Argentine folk singer, who brought the genre to the younger generations at the end of the 20th century, and the beginning of the 21st....
. He has written the music for "Canción con todos" (Song with everyone,) regarded as the Latin American anthem.
Biography
At age 7, was hired to join the cast of Hollywood Park, on a tour of ten days through Salta province. Two years later he scored high on a weekly singing competition, winning over seven consecutive weeks and reaching the coveted first prize: a Football Association ball.In 1954, at age 17, Isella joined the group "Los Sin Nombre" (The Nameless), next to Thomas "Tutu" Campos, Javier E. Pantaleon, Luis Gualter Menu, and Higa. The first two end up forming Los Cantores del Alba (The dawn singers) and the third, Los de Salta. The Nameless came to act with Ariel Ramirez
Ariel Ramirez
Ariel Ramírez was an Argentine composer, pianist and music director. He was considered "a chief exponent of Argentine folk music" and noted for his "iconic" musical compositions....
, in a presentation at the Salta Hotel.
Los Fronterizos
It was in 1956 that he joined the group Los Fronterizos (The Bordermen), replacing Carlos Barbarán, using his legal name Julio César Isella, completing the formation founded in 1953 by Gerardo López, along with Eduardo Madeo and Juan Carlos Moreno. His joining the group was critical for defining the style of Los Fronterizos making them one of the leading ensembles in the history of Argentine folklore. Lopez and Isella made the two baritone voices, first and second respectively, while Madeo and Brown were a sharp and low. This setup was what led the group to stardom achieving major popularity.Los Fronterizos recorded five songs by Isella when he was still part of the group: "La fiera" (Hechizo), "Se lo llevó el carnaval"" (Voces mágicas), "Guitarreando" (Voces mágicas), "Corazón guitarrero" and "Un abrazo a Corrientes" (Color en folklore). After that, without Isella, recorded others for: "Los seguidores" (Sangre fronteriza), "Canción de lejos" (Desde el corazón...), "Viento no más" (Cantando), "Paloma y laurel"(Hoy!!). With Los Fronterizos, in 1964, participated in the historic original recording of "Misa Criolla", by Ariel Ramírez, considered the supreme work of argentine music.
The solo career
In 1966, began a solo career under the name Cesar Isella. The decision surprised the audience, because after the Misa Criolla, Los Fronterizos were at the pinnacle of success.Cesar Isella account then follows:
Isella then adhere fervently to the tenets of Movement of the New Songbook, which had launched Tejada Gómez, Mercedes Sosa, Mendoza Matus and other artists in 1963. In this new artistic line in 1968, released his first solo album called Estoy de vuelta (I'm back) which includes topics such as the beautiful "Zamba para no morir" (Zamba not to die) by Hamlet Lima Quintana, and also a tango
Tango music
Tango is a style of ballroom dance music in 2/4 or 4/4 time that originated among European immigrant populations of Argentina and Uruguay . It is traditionally played by a sextet, known as the orquesta típica, which includes two violins, piano, double bass, and two bandoneons...
, the famous "Milonga triste" from Homero Manzi
Homero Manzi
Homero Nicolás Manzioni Prestera, better known as Homero Manzi was an Argentine Tango lyricist, author of various famous tangos....
and Sebastián Piana.
In 1969 composed the music for "Canción con todos" (Song with all), to which the poet Armando Tejada Gómez I added lyrics, a topic that has been designated by the UNESCO
UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations...
as Anthem from Latin America
Latin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...
and translated into thirty languages. In 1970 submitted along with Tejada Gómez and Los Trovadores (The Bards), the show "Young America". In 1974 won the Martín Fierro Award
Martín Fierro Awards
Martín Fierro is the name of the most prominent awards for Argentine radio and television, granted by APTRA, the Association of Argentine Television and Radio Journalists. The awards were first given in 1959, limited to television. The next year, the awards adopted its current name, after José...
for his radio program "Argentina canta así" (Argentina sings), broadcast by Radio Continental
Radio Continental
LS4 Radio Continental is an Argentine News and Talk radio station. Radio Continental was founded on September 28, 1969 under the name Radio Porteña.It is considered one of the most effective radio stations in Buenos Aires...
of Buenos Aires.
During the military dictatorship-called National Reorganization Process
National Reorganization Process
The National Reorganization Process was the name used by its leaders for the military government that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983. In Argentina it is often known simply as la última junta militar or la última dictadura , because several of them existed throughout its history.The Argentine...
(1976–1983), Isella was included in the lists of censorship as ("Canción con todos") "Song with all". Among the plays performed in those years highlights the album Juanito Laguna (1976), the child character of the painter Antonio Berni
Antonio Berni
Delesio Antonio Berni was a figurative artist, born in Rosario, province of Santa Fe, Argentina. He worked as a painter, an illustrator and an engraver. His father, Napoleón Berni, was an immigrant tailor from Italy...
, with music and poetry of Ástor Piazzolla
Ástor Piazzolla
Ástor Pantaleón Piazzolla was an Argentine tango composer and bandoneón player. His oeuvre revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed nuevo tango, incorporating elements from jazz and classical music...
, Horacio Ferrer, Atahualpa Yupanqui
Atahualpa Yupanqui
Atahualpa Yupanqui was an Argentine singer, songwriter, guitarist, and writer. He is considered the most important Argentine folk musician of the 20th century....
, Gustavo Leguizamón, Manuel J. Castilla, Armando Tejada Gómez, Eduardo Falu
Eduardo Falú
Eduardo Falú is a well-known Argentine folk music guitarist and composer.-Life and work:Eduardo Falú was born in El Galpón, a village near San José de Metán in the province of Salta, Argentina in 1923. His parents, Juan and Fada Falú, were Syrian immigrants...
, Jaime Davalos and himself. The album was abducted by the military regime, prohibiting its distribution.
He returned to Argentina on 29 October 1983, when he had been democratically elected President Raúl Alfonsín
Raúl Alfonsín
Raúl Ricardo Alfonsín was an Argentine lawyer, politician and statesman, who served as the President of Argentina from December 10, 1983, to July 8, 1989. Alfonsín was the first democratically-elected president of Argentina following the military government known as the National Reorganization...
, at which time it provided a pointed recital at the Estadio Obras Sanitarias. At the time of return from exile, Isella participated in historical performances, as he did in the Luna Park with Horacio Guarani, the Cosquín Festival
Cosquín Festival
The Cosquín Folk Festival is one of the most important folk music festivals of Argentina, and most important in Latin America....
in the summer of 1984 and Sanitation mass readings of Silvio Rodríguez
Silvio Rodríguez
Silvio Rodríguez Domínguez is a Cuban musician, and a leader of the nueva trova movement.He is considered Cuba's best known folk singer and known for his highly eloquent and symbolic lyrics. Many of his songs have become classics in Latin American music, such as Ojalá, Playa Girón, Unicornio and...
and Pablo Milanés
Pablo Milanés
Pablo Milanés Arias is a Cuban singer-songwriter and guitar player. He studied at a conservatory in Havana. He is considered one of the founders of the Cuban nueva trova, along with Silvio Rodríguez and Noel Nicola...
, singers censored by the military regime.
In 1984 he made with Victor Heredia
Victor Heredia
Víctor Heredia is an Argentine singer songwriter. Author of Taki Ongoy, a symphonic work about Taki Unquy, a millenarian movement against the Spanish conquest.-Biography:...
and Quartet Zupay the show "Song for poetry," poems set to music composed by Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean poet, diplomat and politician Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. He chose his pen name after Czech poet Jan Neruda....
, Maria Elena Walsh
María Elena Walsh
María Elena Walsh was an Argentine poet, novelist, musician, dramaturge, writer and composer, mainly known for her songs and books for children.-Biography:...
and José Pedroni
José Pedroni
José Bartholomew Pedroni Fantino was an Argentine poet.- Biography :José Pedroni was born in the city of Gálvez, Santa Fe province in Argentina, son of Gaspar Pedroni and Felisa Fantino...
presented with a resounding success in the Luna Park, recital which later was released on an album that sold 300,000 copies. That year also made an unprecedented call for young authors, receiving more than 1,000 songs, of which selected ten, with which he composed his album dawn Fragile.
In 1985 presented in the Teatro Alvear in Buenos Aires "Isella to All", with the participation of Armando Tejada Gómez, the Cuchi Leguizamón, Los Trovadores, Teresa Parodi, Los Carabajal, the National Argentinean Folk Ballet of the Chúcaro and Norma Viola and The Huancara, among others. That same year, even during the government's dictatorship Augusto Pinochet
Augusto Pinochet
Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte, more commonly known as Augusto Pinochet , was a Chilean army general and dictator who assumed power in a coup d'état on 11 September 1973...
, it was reintroduced in Chile
Chile
Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
, after thirteen years of ban.
In 1987 started a radio program broadcast music by Radio Excelsior (then Radio La Red), which continues until today (2008). In 1993 made the album Song to benefit all of the UNESCO
UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations...
, in which the famous theme song is played Joan Manuel Serrat
Joan Manuel Serrat
Joan Manuel Serrat i Teresa is a Catalan Spanish singer-songwriter.Serrat is considered one of the most important figures of modern, popular music in both the Spanish and Catalan languages...
, Silvio Rodriguez, Pablo Milanes, Tania Libertad
Tania Libertad
Tania Libertad de Souza Zúñiga, known as Tania Libertad, is a singer who was born in Peru on October 24, 1952 and has lived in Mexico since 1978....
, Guadalupe Pineda
Guadalupe Pineda
Guadalupe Pineda is a Mexican singer who has produced twenty six albums during her career covering various styles of music. She primarily sings in Spanish but has also sung in French, Italian, English and Hebrew. She has been called the “Queen of Bolero” but has also sung ballads, mariachi, tango,...
, Jairo, Manuel Mijares
Manuel Mijares
Manuel Mijares , is a popular Spanish-language singer who is billed simply as "Mijares." He launched his career at age 23. He is currently separated from singer/actress Lucero, with whom he has two children.-Biography:He was born in Hospital Español in Mexico City...
, Osvaldo Pugliese
Osvaldo Pugliese
Osvaldo Pedro Pugliese was an Argentine tango musician. He developed dramatic arrangements that retained strong elements of the walking beat of salon tango but also heralded the development of concert-style tango music.Some of his music, mostly since the 50s, is used for theatrical dance...
, Inti Illimani, Miguel Mateos
Miguel Mateos
Miguel Mateos is a rock singer/songwriter from Villa Pueyrredón, Argentina. Outside of Argentina, he is considered one of the most important exponents of Rock en Español, specially in the 1980s when he along with Charly Garcia, Soda Stereo, Enanitos Verdes, Virus, Sumo, Fabulosos Cadillacs, Rata...
, Ástor Piazzolla
Ástor Piazzolla
Ástor Pantaleón Piazzolla was an Argentine tango composer and bandoneón player. His oeuvre revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed nuevo tango, incorporating elements from jazz and classical music...
, Atahualpa Yupanqui
Atahualpa Yupanqui
Atahualpa Yupanqui was an Argentine singer, songwriter, guitarist, and writer. He is considered the most important Argentine folk musician of the 20th century....
, Lito Vitale
Lito Vitale
Héctor Facundo Vitale, known as Lito Vitale, is an Argentine musician, born in Villa Adelina, Buenos Aires province on December 1, 1961.A talented piano player, he was coached by his mother, renowned music teacher Esther Soto, since childhood...
and himself. The album received the ACE Awards.
In 1995, on the occasion of the Meeting of the Ibero-American Summit
Ibero-American Summit
The Ibero-American Summit , is a yearly meeting of the heads of government and state of the Spanish-...
in Punta Arenas, Chile
Chile
Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
, sings "Song to everybody," and makes singing group leaders Latin Americans, including Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz is a Cuban revolutionary and politician, having held the position of Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, and then President from 1976 to 2008. He also served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from the party's foundation in 1961 until 2011...
, King Juan Carlos I of Spain, Felipe González
Felipe González
Felipe González Márquez is a Spanish socialist politician. He was the General Secretary of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party from 1974 to 1997. To date, he remains the longest-serving Prime Minister of Spain, after having served four successive mandates from 1982 to 1996.-Early life:Felipe was...
, Eduardo Frei
Eduardo Frei
Eduardo Frei may refer to either of two presidents of Chile:*Eduardo Frei Montalva , Chilean political figure and president of Chile from 1964 to 1970...
and others. That same year he participates All the Voices Festival, organized in Quito
Quito
San Francisco de Quito, most often called Quito , is the capital city of Ecuador in northwestern South America. It is located in north-central Ecuador in the Guayllabamba river basin, on the eastern slopes of Pichincha, an active stratovolcano in the Andes mountains...
by Ecuadorian painter Oswaldo Guayasamin
Oswaldo Guayasamín
Oswaldo Guayasamín was a Quechua native and Ecuadorian master painter and sculptor.-Early life:...
, along with prominent Latin American singers, at that time gave him his portrait Guayasamín dedicated.
Between 1995 and 1997, for three successive editions, he directed the "Official Peña National Folklore Festival Cosquin
Cosquín Festival
The Cosquín Folk Festival is one of the most important folk music festivals of Argentina, and most important in Latin America....
, developing a policy for participation of young artists. Some of the singers that emerged in these presentations are Ruben Patagonia, Adrian Maggi, Soledad
Soledad Pastorutti
Soledad "La Sole" Pastorutti is an Argentine folk singer, who brought the genre to the younger generations at the end of the 20th century, and the beginning of the 21st....
, Luciano Pereyra
Luciano Pereyra
Luciano Pereyra was born in the bonaerense town of Lujan, the September 21, 1981. He is an Argentine singer.- Biography :His full name is Luciano Ariel Pereyra. When he was three years old, his parents noticed his talent for music and gave him a guitar for Christmas. The following year, he...
, Los Tekis and others.
In 1999 United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
bought the rights to "Song with all" to be studied in high schools as nonmetallic study of music and Latin American culture.
In 2007, coinciding with the 50-year career, Isella released the album50 yearssimple things and an autobiography.
He was Director General of the Teatro General San Martín
Teatro General San Martín
The Teatro General San Martin is an important public theater in Buenos Aires, located on Corrientes Avenue and adjacent to the cultural center of the same name...
, and vice president of the Sociedad Argentina de Autores y Compositores de Música
Sociedad Argentina de Autores y Compositores de Música
Sociedad Argentina de Autores y Compositores de Música is the entity that gathers all musicians and authors of Argentina, and the Argentine performance rights organisation that keeps registry of musical works, and collects and distributes royalties on behalf of the artists.Founded on June 9,...
(SADAIC). It musicalizado poets like Nicolas Guillen
Nicolás Guillén
Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista was a Cuban poet, journalist, political activist, and writer. He is best remembered as the national poet of Cuba.Guillén was born in Camagüey, Cuba...
, José Pedroni
José Pedroni
José Bartholomew Pedroni Fantino was an Argentine poet.- Biography :José Pedroni was born in the city of Gálvez, Santa Fe province in Argentina, son of Gaspar Pedroni and Felisa Fantino...
and Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean poet, diplomat and politician Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. He chose his pen name after Czech poet Jan Neruda....
. Apart from "Song to everybody," Isella has composed many outstanding songs, including "Animaná Fire," "Song of the simple things," "song by far," "Song for awakening a black (poetry of Nicolás Guillén
Nicolás Guillén
Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista was a Cuban poet, journalist, political activist, and writer. He is best remembered as the national poet of Cuba.Guillén was born in Camagüey, Cuba...
), "Song of Tenderness," "The nation divided" (poetry by Pablo Neruda, etc.).
Awards
- First Prize Fray Bentos, Uruguay, 1970.
- Martin Fierro AwardMartín Fierro AwardsMartín Fierro is the name of the most prominent awards for Argentine radio and television, granted by APTRA, the Association of Argentine Television and Radio Journalists. The awards were first given in 1959, limited to television. The next year, the awards adopted its current name, after José...
for the best music radio program, 1974 - First Prize at the National Festival from CosquínCosquín FestivalThe Cosquín Folk Festival is one of the most important folk music festivals of Argentina, and most important in Latin America....
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1962, 1964, 1974, 1982 - First Prize at the Festival de la Patagonia, Chile
- Prize at the World Song Festival Agustín Lara, Mexico
- ACE Award for the album Tribute to Poetry,1993.