BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- Doctors say Argentine folk singer Mercedes Sosa's health is deteriorating further at the Buenos Aires clinic where she is in critical condition. The Trinidad Clinic says Sosa is in a "pharmacological coma and breathing with a respirator. According to a statement issued Friday, her prognosis has "worsened in the last 24 hours."
The resulting live album, Mercedes Sosa en Argentina, came at the time the dictatorship was crumbling (the title itself was a political statement) and demonstrates the wide musical net that Sosa had already cast in collaborations with not only rockero Garcia but also the Cubans Bola de Nieve, Silvio Rodriguez, and Pablo Milanés, as well as Argentine folk and popular music fusionist León Gieco. The generalized statements in the songs she sang and her own words never stooped to bland platitudes but were always linked to an unfailing involvement and connection with real social struggles to transform the world and empower the powerless.
De repente, cuando el recorrido visual va llegando a su fin, desde el final del largo pasillo se escucha hablar a Mercedes. Es esa misma voz que conmueve en canciones y que viene destilando sentimientos hace 40 años, desde comienzos de su carrera como folclorista en plena década del 60, como parte del movimiento del nuevo cancionero en Argentina. "¡Qué alegría verlo tan bien a este muchacho! ¿Viste cómo bailaba?", pregunta la cantante a Fabián, su hijo, quien vigila con cuidado los pasos de la dama y la asiste hasta llegar al sillón principal desde el cual comandará la charla. "Qué felicidad que esté tan bien, yo lo quiero tanto a ese chico", sigue ella. Es que son gente tan maravillosa, ¡y lo bien que componen!", asegura. "Yo a [Charly Garc] lo adoro, cómo lo quiero a ese chico......
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- Argentine folk singer Mercedes Sosa, the "voice of Latin America" whose music inspired opponents of South America's brutal military regimes and led to her forced exile in Europe, died Sunday, her family said. She was 74. Her remains lay in state at the National Congress, where thousands of people -- many with flowers or Argentine flags -- lined up to pay respects to one of the region's most iconic voices.
Argentinian Mercedes Sosa considers her hometown Tucuman, which is known for its political activism, as the biggest influence in her career as a folk singer. Now in her 60th year, Sosa continues to sing songs of justice, peace and equality with the same powerful voice, although with a little jazz variation.
They began with a popular upbeat Venezuelan song "Moliendo Café," followed it with an Argentinean song "Two Doves," and then followed that with a soothing, slower beat Brazilian version of the song "Days in the Life of a Fool," and ended with Chilean music. Lucia Stone, of Mexican origin, recited two poems including the poem "Veinte" from "Veinte Poemas de Amor y Una Canción Desesperada," or "20 Love Poems and a Desperate Song," while a guitar played in the background. Emily Pinkerton, a singer and dancer of Chilean folk music from Pittsburgh, and [Marcia Moreno] played their guitars and sang three songs including Isabel Parra's "Corazón, Maldito" and Mercedes Sosa's "Todo Cambia," which means "Everything Changes." They planned to sing just three songs but after the audience repeated "o...
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