(in touch with) The Folklore Reality

It is not difficult to understand why the Argentine interpreter Soledad is a true icon of the popular music nor why she casts a spell on young and old people alike. It is not casual either that she is called “the hurricane of Arequito”. The fact that Arequito is her birthplace and that she gives off energy thru her voice sufficiently accounts for her nickname

Self-taught musician and remarkable guitar player, Raúl Carnota authored jewels of the Argentine folklore or, as he himself, liked to say, our creole music.

Among the most popular musicians in the country and abroad, we can mention Ariel Ramírez, the author of emblematic songs such as “Alfonsina and the sea” and conceptual Works like the famous “Creole Mass”, one of the most recorded pieces in the history of music at the world level.

It is not difficult to understand why the Argentine interpreter Soledad is a true icon of the popular music nor why she casts a spell on young and old people alike. It is not casual either that she is called “the hurricane of Arequito”. The fact that Arequito is her birthplace and that she gives off energy thru her voice sufficiently accounts for her nickname

Self-taught musician and remarkable guitar player, Raúl Carnota authored jewels of the Argentine folklore or, as he himself, liked to say, our creole music.

Among the most popular musicians in the country and abroad, we can mention Ariel Ramírez, the author of emblematic songs such as “Alfonsina and the sea” and conceptual Works like the famous “Creole Mass”, one of the most recorded pieces in the history of music at the world level.

Mercedes Sosa (Haydée Mercedes Sosa), (born July 9, 1935, San Miguel de Tucumán, Arg.—died Oct. 4, 2009, Buenos Aires, Arg.), Argentine folk singer who was known as “the voice of the voiceless” for her songs that spoke of the struggle for economic and political justice. She was a leading proponent of the nueva canción movement of the 1960s, which used traditional music to express political themes. Sosa, who possessed a powerful and dramatic alto voice, was known as a peerless interpreter of songs written by others. Her first album, La voz de la zafra, appeared in 1959, but it was her 1965 performance at Argentina’s national folklore festival in Cosquín that brought her national attention and increasing popularity. After the military took power in 1976, she was subject to official harassment that culminated in the public arrest of Sosa, her band, and much of her audience at a concert in 1979. Sosa went into exile, during which time she began to expand her repertoire to include other forms of popular music; she returned to Argentina in 1982. She won Latin Grammy Awards for best folk album in 2000 for Misa Criolla, in 2003 for Acústico, in 2006 for Corazón libre, and in 2009 for Cantora Vol. 1.

Mercedes Sosa (Haydée Mercedes Sosa), (born July 9, 1935, San Miguel de Tucumán, Arg.—died Oct. 4, 2009, Buenos Aires, Arg.), Argentine folk singer who was known as “the voice of the voiceless” for her songs that spoke of the struggle for economic and political justice. She was a leading proponent of the nueva canción movement of the 1960s, which used traditional music to express political themes. Sosa, who possessed a powerful and dramatic alto voice, was known as a peerless interpreter of songs written by others. Her first album, La voz de la zafra, appeared in 1959, but it was her 1965 performance at Argentina’s national folklore festival in Cosquín that brought her national attention and increasing popularity. After the military took power in 1976, she was subject to official harassment that culminated in the public arrest of Sosa, her band, and much of her audience at a concert in 1979. Sosa went into exile, during which time she began to expand her repertoire to include other forms of popular music; she returned to Argentina in 1982. She won Latin Grammy Awards for best folk album in 2000 for Misa Criolla, in 2003 for Acústico, in 2006 for Corazón libre, and in 2009 for Cantora Vol. 1.

Musician, pianist, composer, author and lawyer, el “Cuchi” was born in Salta on Sep 29, 1917. He made an important contribution to folklore music with zambas, chacareras & other compositions of novel melodies. He was a brilliant pianist but above all, a strict and self-learned composer of solid formation who recreated the musical styles of regional folklore. He collaborated with lyrics of Manuel Castilla, with Works such as "Balderrama", "La Pomeña" , "Zamba del Pañuelo" etc, and lyrics of Jaime Davalos He conducted the Dúo Salteño (Patricio Jiménez & Chacho Echenique). He is one of the best representatives of folklore composers. El "Cuchi" Leguizamón died in Salta on Sep 27, 2000.

Atahualpa Yupanqui (in quechua "the one who comes from far off lands to say sth”), is the pseudonym used by Héctor Roberto Chavero Aramburo, who was born in Pergamino on Jan 31, 1908 and passed away in Nîmes, France, on May 23, 1992. "Don Ata" was a songwriter, guitar player, poet and writer and an Argentine pride.He is considered the most important Argentine folklore musician and his compositions which have been interpreted by top interpreters such as Mercedes Sosa, Pedro Aznar, Los Chalchaleros, Horacio Guarany, Jorge Cafrune, Alfredo Zitarrosa, José Larralde, Víctor Jara, Ángel Parra, Jairo, Andrés Calamaro, Divididos, among many others, still integrate the repertoire of lots of artists in Argentina and in different countries of the world.

"The search of a national music with popular content has been one of the dearest objectives of the Argentine people. The artists, since the beginning of their own popular expression have tried to incorporate the diversity of gênres and other expressions of their own that matched their sensitivity, with the only objective of interpreting the whole country’s voice. Thus reads the manifesto of the Nuevo Cancionero or New Song Book, a movement that marks a before and after in the aesthetics and ethics of Argentine folklore whose influences are still present.Armando Tejada Gomez , Oscar Matus & Mercedes Sosa are some of the top referents of the music.

Musician, pianist, composer, author and lawyer, el “Cuchi” was born in Salta on Sep 29, 1917. He made an important contribution to folklore music with zambas, chacareras & other compositions of novel melodies. He was a brilliant pianist but above all, a strict and self-learned composer of solid formation who recreated the musical styles of regional folklore. He collaborated with lyrics of Manuel Castilla, with Works such as "Balderrama", "La Pomeña" , "Zamba del Pañuelo" etc, and lyrics of Jaime Davalos He conducted the Dúo Salteño (Patricio Jiménez & Chacho Echenique). He is one of the best representatives of folklore composers. El "Cuchi" Leguizamón died in Salta on Sep 27, 2000.

Atahualpa Yupanqui (in quechua "the one who comes from far off lands to say sth”), is the pseudonym used by Héctor Roberto Chavero Aramburo, who was born in Pergamino on Jan 31, 1908 and passed away in Nîmes, France, on May 23, 1992. "Don Ata" was a songwriter, guitar player, poet and writer and an Argentine pride.He is considered the most important Argentine folklore musician and his compositions which have been interpreted by top interpreters such as Mercedes Sosa, Pedro Aznar, Los Chalchaleros, Horacio Guarany, Jorge Cafrune, Alfredo Zitarrosa, José Larralde, Víctor Jara, Ángel Parra, Jairo, Andrés Calamaro, Divididos, among many others, still integrate the repertoire of lots of artists in Argentina and in different countries of the world.

"The search of a national music with popular content has been one of the dearest objectives of the Argentine people. The artists, since the beginning of their own popular expression have tried to incorporate the diversity of gênres and other expressions of their own that matched their sensitivity, with the only objective of interpreting the whole country’s voice. Thus reads the manifesto of the Nuevo Cancionero or New Song Book, a movement that marks a before and after in the aesthetics and ethics of Argentine folklore whose influences are still present.Armando Tejada Gomez , Oscar Matus & Mercedes Sosa are some of the top referents of the music.