Haydée Mercedes Sosa, known as
La Negra, (9 July 1935 – 4 October 2009) was an
Argentine singerThe music of Argentina is known mostly for the tango, which developed in Buenos Aires and surrounding areas, as well as Montevideo, Uruguay. Folk, pop and classical music are also popular, and Argentine artists like Mercedes Sosa and Atahualpa Yupanqui contributed greatly to the development of the...
who was popular throughout
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and some countries outside the continent. With her roots in Argentine
folk musicFolk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....
, Sosa became one of the preeminent exponents of
nueva canciónNueva canción is a movement and genre within Latin American and Iberian music of folk music, folk-inspired music and socially committed music...
. She gave voice to songs written by both Brazilians and Cubans. She was best known as the "voice of the voiceless ones".
Sosa performed in venues such as the Lincoln Center in
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, the
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in
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and the
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in
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, as well as sell-out shows in New York's
Carnegie HallCarnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....
and the
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Coliseum during her final decade of life. Her career spanned four decades and she has been the recipient of several Grammy awards and nominations, including three nominations which will be decided posthumously. She served as an ambassador for UNICEF.
Life
Sosa was born on 9 July 1935, in San Miguel de Tucumán, in the northwestern Argentine province of
TucumánTucumán is the most densely populated, and the smallest by land area, of the provinces of Argentina. Located in the northwest of the country, the capital is San Miguel de Tucumán, often shortened to Tucumán. Neighboring provinces are, clockwise from the north: Salta, Santiago del Estero and...
, of
mestizoMestizo is a term traditionally used in Latin America, Philippines and Spain for people of mixed European and Native American heritage or descent...
,
FrenchThe French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...
, and Quechua
AmerindianThe indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America, their descendants and other ethnic groups who are identified with those peoples. Indigenous peoples are known in Canada as Aboriginal peoples, and in the United States as Native Americans...
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. She recorded her first album, La Voz de la Zafra, in 1959. A performance at the 1965
Cosquín National Folklore FestivalThe Cosquín Folk Festival is one of the most important folk music festivals of Argentina, and most important in Latin America....
-where she was introduced and brought to the scene while seating among the public by fellow folk singer
Jorge CafruneJorge Antonio Cafrune was one of the most popular Argentinian folklorist singers of his time, as well as an unflagging investigator, compilator, and diffuser of the native culture.- His life:...
-, brought her to the attention of her native countrypeople.
Sosa and her first husband, Manuel Óscar Matus, with whom she had one son, were key players in the mid-60s
nueva canciónNueva canción is a movement and genre within Latin American and Iberian music of folk music, folk-inspired music and socially committed music...
movement (which was called nuevo cancionero in Argentina). Her second record was Canciones con Fundamento, a collection of Argentine folk songs.
In 1967, Sosa toured the
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and
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with great success. In later 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 RamírezAriel 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....
and lyricist
Félix LunaFélix Luna was a prominent Argentine writer, lyricist and historian.-Life and times:Luna was born in Buenos Aires to a family originally from La Rioja Province, in 1925...
: Cantata Sudamericana and Mujeres Argentinas (Argentine Women). She also recorded a tribute to
ChileChile ,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...
an poet
Violeta ParraVioleta del Carmen Parra Sandoval was a notable Chilean composer, songwriter, folklorist, ethnomusicologist and visual artist...
in 1971, including what was to become one of Sosa's signature songs,
Gracias a la Vida"Gracias a la vida" is the name of a song composed and first performed by Chilean musician Violeta Parra, one of the artists who set the basis for the movement known as Nueva Canción...
. She also improved the popularity of songs written by
Milton Nascimento-Biography:Nascimento's mother was the maid Maria Nascimento. As a baby, Milton Nascimento was adopted by his mother's former employers: the couple Josino Brito Campos, a banker employee, mathematics teacher and electronic technician; and Lília Silva Campos, a music teacher and choir singer...
of
BrazilBrazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
and
Pablo MilanésPablo 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...
and
Silvio RodríguezSilvio 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...
both from
CubaThe Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...
.
After the
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of Jorge Videla came to power in 1976, the atmosphere in Argentina grew increasingly oppressive. At a concert in
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in 1979, Sosa was searched and arrested on stage, along with the attending crowd. Their release came about through international intervention. Banned in her own country, she moved to
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and then to
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. Her second husband died in 1978.
Sosa returned to Argentina in 1982, several months before the military regime collapsed as a result of the Malvinas War, and gave a series of concerts at the Opera Teatro Colón in
Buenos AiresBuenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
, 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 subsequent years, Sosa continued to tour both in Argentina and abroad, performing in such venues as the Lincoln Center in
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and the
Théâtre MogadorThéâtre Mogador founded in 1913 and designed by Bertie Crewe, is a Parisian music hall theatre located at 25, rue de Mogador in the 9th district. It seats 1,800 people on three tiers.In 1913 financier Sir Alfred Butt rented an area in Paris...
in Paris. In a poor condition of health for much of the 1990s, she performed a comeback show in Argentina in 1998. In 1994, she played the
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in
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. In 2002, she sold out both
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in New York and the Coliseum in
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in the same year.
A supporter of
PerónJuan Domingo Perón was an Argentine military officer, and politician. Perón was three times elected as President of Argentina though he only managed to serve one full term, after serving in several government positions, including the Secretary of Labor and the Vice Presidency...
in her youth, she favored leftist causes throughout her life. She opposed President
Carlos MenemCarlos Saúl Menem is an Argentine politician who was President of Argentina from 1989 to 1999. He is currently an Argentine National Senator for La Rioja Province.-Early life:...
, who was in office from 1989 to 1999, and supported the election of
Néstor KirchnerNéstor Carlos Kirchner was an Argentine politician who served as the 54th President of Argentina from 25 May 2003 until 10 December 2007. Previously, he was Governor of Santa Cruz Province since 10 December 1991. He briefly served as Secretary General of the Union of South American Nations ...
, who became president in 2003.
Sosa was a
UNESCO Goodwill AmbassadorUNESCO Goodwill Ambassadors are celebrity advocates of UNESCO who use their talent or fame to spread the UNESCO ideals, especially attracting media attention...
for Latin America and the Caribbean.
In a career consisting of four decades, she worked with performers across several genres and generations, folk, opera, pop, rock, including
Lucio DallaLucio Dalla is a popular Italian singer-songwriter and musician. He also plays clarinet and keyboards.He is the composer of Caruso , which has been covered by numerous international artists...
,
Nana MouskouriNana Mouskouri , born Ioánna Moúschouri on October 13, 1934, in Chania, Crete, Greece, is a Greek singer who has sold about 300 million records worldwide in a career spanning over five decades, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time. She was known as Nána to her friends and...
,
Maria FarantouriMaria Farantouri was born in Athens on 28 November 1947. She is a Greek singer and also a political and cultural activist. She has collaborated with prominent Greek composers such as Mikis Theodorakis, who wrote the score for Pablo Neruda's Canto General, which Farantouri performed...
,
Andrea BocelliAndrea Bocelli, is an Italian tenor, multi-instrumentalist and classical crossover artist. Born with poor eyesight, he became blind at the age of twelve following a soccer accident....
,
Holly NearHolly Near is an American singer-songwriter, actress, teacher, and activist for social change.-Early years:...
,
Silvio RodríguezSilvio 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...
,
Pablo MilanésPablo 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...
,
Milton Nascimento-Biography:Nascimento's mother was the maid Maria Nascimento. As a baby, Milton Nascimento was adopted by his mother's former employers: the couple Josino Brito Campos, a banker employee, mathematics teacher and electronic technician; and Lília Silva Campos, a music teacher and choir singer...
,
Caetano VelosoCaetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso , better known as Caetano Veloso, is a Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist. Veloso first became known for his participation in the Brazilian musical movement Tropicalismo which encompassed theatre, poetry and music in the 1960s,...
,
Joan Manuel SerratJoan 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...
,
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,
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, Gian Marco,
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,
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,
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,
Franco BattiatoFrancesco Battiato is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer, filmmaker and, under the pseudonym Süphan Barzani, also a painter. Battiato's songs contain esoteric, philosophical and religious themes...
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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and Sting.
Sosa participated in a 1999 production of
Ariel RamírezAriel 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....
's Misa Criolla. Her song Balderrama is featured in the 2008 movie
CheChe is a two-part 2008 biopic about Ernesto 'Che' Guevara directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Benicio del Toro. Rather than follow a standard chronological order, the films offer an oblique series of interspersed moments along the overall timeline...
, starring
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as the Argentine Marxist revolutionary
Che GuevaraErnesto "Che" Guevara , commonly known as el Che or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, intellectual, guerrilla leader, diplomat and military theorist...
.
Awards
She 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.
Her album
Cantora 1Cantora 1 is a studio album by the late Argentine singer Mercedes Sosa. It was released in 2009 and features duets with prominent Latin American recording artists. It was certified platinum by the CAPIF. This means that the album sold 40,000 copies in Argentina.Cantora, un Viaje Íntimo features...
won two awards at the
Latin Grammy Awards of 2009The 10th Annual Latin Grammy Awards took place on November 5, 2009 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. This was the second time the show took place in Las Vegas. Juan Gabriel was honored as the Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year on November 4, the day prior to the...
. She won Best Folk Album and was nominated for
Album of the YearThe Latin Grammy Award for Album of the Year is an honor presented annually at the Latin Grammy Awards, a ceremony that recognizes excellence and creates a wider awareness of cultural diversity and contributions of Latin recording artists in the United States and internationally...
. The album was also awarded
Best Recording PackageThe Latin Grammy Award for Best Recording Package is given every year since the 7th Latin Grammy Awards ceremony, which took place at the Madison Square Garden in New York, New York.-2010s:-2000s:...
.
Death
Suffering from recurrent endocrine and respiratory problems in later years, the 74-year-old Sosa was hospitalized in Buenos Aires on September 18, 2009. She died from multiple organ failure on October 4, 2009, at 5:15 am. She is survived by one son, Fabian Matus, born during the first marriage. He said: "She lived her 74 years to the fullest. She had done practically everything she wanted, she didn't have any type of barrier or any type of fear that limited her". The hospital expressed its sympathies with her relations. Her website featured the following: "Her undisputed talent, her honesty and her profound convictions leave a great legacy to future generations".
Her body was placed on display at the
National CongressThe Congress of the Argentine Nation is the legislative branch of the government of Argentina. Its composition is bicameral, constituted by a 72-seat Senate and a 257-seat Chamber of Deputies....
building in Buenos Aires for the public to pay their respects, and President Fernández de Kirchner ordered three days of national mourning. Thousands had queued by the end of the day. She was cremated on October 5.
Sosa's obituary in
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said she was "an unrivalled interpreter of works by her compatriot, the Argentinian
Atahualpa YupanquiAtahualpa Yupanqui was an Argentine singer, songwriter, guitarist, and writer. He is considered the most important Argentine folk musician of the 20th century....
, and Chile's
Violeta ParraVioleta del Carmen Parra Sandoval was a notable Chilean composer, songwriter, folklorist, ethnomusicologist and visual artist...
". Helen Popper of
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announced her death by saying she "fought South America's dictators with her voice and became a giant of contemporary Latin American music". Sosa received two Latin Grammy nominations for her album which is nominated for a total of three awards. She went on to win Best Folk Album about a month after her death.
Discography
She recorded forty albums.
- La voz de la zafra (1962)
- Canciones con fundamento (1965)
- Yo no canto por cantar (1966)
- Hermano (1966)
- Para cantarle a mi gente (1967)
- Con sabor a Mercedes Sosa (1968)
- Mujeres argentinas (1969)
- Navidad con Mercedes Sosa (1970)
- El grito de la tierra (1970)
- Homenaje a Violeta Parra (1971)
- Hasta la victoria (1972)
- Cantata sudamericana (1972)
- Traigo un pueblo en mi voz (1973)
- Si se calla el cantor (1973) (with Gloria Martín, life in Venezuela)
- Niño de mañana (1975)
- A que florezca mi pueblo (1975)
- En dirección del viento (1976)
- O cio da terra (1977)
- Mercedes Sosa interpreta a Atahualpa Yupanqui (1977)
- Si se calla el cantor (1977) - Recopilacion
- Serenata para la tierra de uno (1979)
- A quién doy (1980)
- Gravado ao vivo no Brasil (1980)
- Mercedes Sosa en Argentina (1982)
- Mercedes Sosa (1983)
- Como un pájaro libre (1983)
- Recital (1983)
- ¿Será posible el sur? (1984)
- Vengo a ofrecer mi corazón (1985)
- Corazón americano (1985) (with Milton Nascimento
-Biography:Nascimento's mother was the maid Maria Nascimento. As a baby, Milton Nascimento was adopted by his mother's former employers: the couple Josino Brito Campos, a banker employee, mathematics teacher and electronic technician; and Lília Silva Campos, a music teacher and choir singer...
and León GiecoRaúl Alberto Antonio Gieco, better known as León Gieco is a pop-folk music composer and interpreter. He is known for mixing popular folkloric genres with Argentine rock, and for lyrics with social and political connotations...
)
- Mercedes Sosa ´86 (1986)
- Mercedes Sosa ´87 (1987)
- Amigos míos (1988)
- En vivo en Europa (1990)
- De mí (1991)
- 30 años (1993)
- Sino (1993)
- Gestos de amor (1994)
- Live in Argentina (1994)
- Live in Europe (1994)
- Sera Posible El Sur (1994)
- Vivir (1994)
- Oro (1995)
- Escondido en mi país (1996)
- Gracias a la Vida (1996)
- Alta fidelidad (1997) (with Charly García
Charly García is a singer-songwriter, pianist and keyboardist from Argentina with a long career in rock music, forming successful groups such as Sui Generis and Serú Girán, cult status groups like La Máquina de Hacer Pájaros, and as a solo musician.-Early years:Charly García was the eldest son in...
)
- Coleccion Mi Historia (1997)
- Al despertar (1998)
- Misa criolla (1999)
- Serie Millennium 21 (1999)
- La Negra (2000)
- Acústico (2002)
- Grandes Exitos, Vols. 1 & 2 (2002)
- 40 Obras Fundamentales (2003)
- Argentina quiere cantar (2003) (with Víctor 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 León GiecoRaúl Alberto Antonio Gieco, better known as León Gieco is a pop-folk music composer and interpreter. He is known for mixing popular folkloric genres with Argentine rock, and for lyrics with social and political connotations...
)
- Voz Y Sentimiento (2003)
- Corazón libre (2005)
- Éxitos Eternos (2005)
- La Historia del Folklore (2007)
- Cantora 1
Cantora 1 is a studio album by the late Argentine singer Mercedes Sosa. It was released in 2009 and features duets with prominent Latin American recording artists. It was certified platinum by the CAPIF. This means that the album sold 40,000 copies in Argentina.Cantora, un Viaje Íntimo features...
(2009)
- Cantora 2 (2009)
Filmography
- Güemes, la tierra en armas (1971)
- Argentinísima (1972)
- Esta es mi Argentina (1974)
- Mercedes Sosa, como un pájaro libre (1983)
- Será posible el sur: Mercedes Sosa (1985)
- Historias de Argentina en vivo (2001)
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