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Haydée Mercedes Sosa, known as La Negra, was an Argentine singer who was popular throughout Latin America and many countries outside the continent. With her roots in Argentine folk music, Sosa became one of the preeminent exponents of nueva canción. She gave voice to songs… IMDB Wikipedia $10 million 1935 2009 Argentina Argentines Buenos Aires Fabian Matus Film Score Composer Haydée Mercedes Sosa July 9 LA La Negra Manuel Óscar Matus Manuel Óscar Matus (m. 1957) Mercedes Mercedes Sosa Mercedes Sosa Net Worth Negra October 4 San Miguel de Tucumán Singer Singers Social activist Sosa

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Mercedes Sosa Quotes

• When you are in exile, you take your suitcase, but there are things that don’t fit. There are things in your mind, like colors and smells and childhood attitudes, and there is also the pain and the death you saw.
• Artists are not political leaders. The only power they have is to draw people into the theater.

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• She was of mixed Amerindian and French ancestry. She grew up in a relatively desolate area, closer to Bolivia than to Buenos Aires.
• She won a local radio station’s amateur talent contest when she was 15.
• Her signature song, “Gracias a la Vida” (Thanks to Life) was written by Chilean songwriter Violeta Parra.
• She performed with various entertainers, including Joan Baez and Sting.
• She was a leading figure in the “nueva cancion” musical movement of the 1960s and 1970s, which blended traditional folk music with politically-charged lyrics about government brutality and the poor.
• In 1992 she was honored as “Ciudadano Ilustre de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires” (“Illustrious Citizen of the City of Buenos Aires”).

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