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Argentina (1935 – 2009)

Mercedes Sosa (born 9 July 1935, died 3 October 2009 in Buenos Aires) was an Argentinean singer inmensely popular throughout Latin America. With her roots in music, she became one of the preeminent exponents of (new song). Sosa is greatly admired for the depth and beauty of her contralto voice. She is nicknamed “La Negra” by her fans for her long, jet-black hair. Actually she is nicknamed “La Negra” because that’s the way in Argentina we called affectously to dark skinned and hair people, is something very common to call people that way in the most affectous way, and Mercedes Sosa was loved and known for everybody in Argentina, and so her position against the so called “Fact Goverment” that ruled the country and disappeared or murdered anybody suspected of being against the goverment ideas.

Sosa was born in Tucumán, a northwestern province of Argentina, of mestizo descent from French and Amerindian (Quechuan) 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.

Sosa and her first husband Manuel Oscar Matus were key players in the mid-60s nueva canción movement (which was called nuevo cancionero in Argentina). Her first record was Canciones con Fundamento (Songs with Fundament), a collection of Argentinean folk songs.
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  • vulgarcita

    "Mi zamba vivío conmigo, parte de mi soledad. No sé si ya lo sabrás mi vida se fue contigo, contigo mi amor, contigo. Qué mal me hace recordar." Ay Sosa ♥

    26 days ago

  • leon_goncalves

    La Negra <3

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  • maryfreedom

    :*

    March 2012

  • lightyears84

    no la conocia antes ;) pero muy muy buena :)muy bien Argentina

    March 2012

  • Felinocosmico

    Solo le pido a dios, que el orgullo no me sea indiferente, belleza suprema de cancion,larga vida a una de las cantautoras mas importantes y representativas de la musica latinoamericana.

    March 2012

  • jefferpan

    Y así como todo cambia, que yo cambie no es extraño.

    February 2012

  • top20fanatico

    La Peregrinación <3

    January 2012

  • nsp_rocks

    Alfonsina y El mar es increible (Y)

    January 2012
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