Mercedes Sosa
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Oct 23, 2026
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The film chronicles the life of German-born photographer Anne Marie Heinrich, who moved to Argentina in 1926 and became the leading portraitist of the country's mid-century cultural landscape.
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Heinrich captured iconic portraits of Eva Perón, Jorge Luis Borges, and Mercedes Sosa.
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producing over 130,000 negatives that today form an expansive family-managed archive in the former studio in Buenos Aires City.
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To wrap up, a recommended read.
Gabriel PalatchiGUEST
They share this beautiful music.
Gabriel PalatchiGUEST
The more famous artists who make this music internationally famous, Mercedes Sosa, So this is also a song that I have on the new album.
Gabriel PalatchiGUEST
It's a medley of folkloric music from Argentina.
Gabriel PalatchiGUEST
And by the way, the rhythm that I'm going to play, it's called samba, but it's not samba with an S because this is Brazilian music.
Paz Rodríguez NiellHOST
Más adelante se instaló en el barrio La Candelaria, en el centro de Bogotá.
Jorge EspinosaHOST
Por entonces ya había compuesto canciones de alto contenido social como "Para el pueblo lo que es del pueblo" o "Soy paz, soy pan, soy más", que cantó con Mercedes Sosa.
Jorge EspinosaHOST
Luego, en los ochenta, Piero dijo que quería cambiar la música protesta por la música propuesta.
Juan Carlos IragorriHOST
¿Cómo será recordado Piero por los argentinos? Hablamos ayer en Buenos Aires con el conocido periodista de la sección de espectáculos del diario La Nación, Marcelo Stiletano.
Marcelo StiletanoGUEST
Y hay otra cosa notable.
Marcelo StiletanoGUEST
Eh, con el tiempo, aquel original cantante de protesta se convirtió en una especie de apóstol de pacifismo y apóstol de la bondad con aquello de manso y tranquilo y las buenas ondas.
Marcelo StiletanoGUEST
Y se me ocurre también que la versión de Mercedes Sosa de uno de esos temas, el "Manso y tranquilo", tuvo mucho que ver con el éxito de ese cambio, que también, que también perduró como aquellas primeras canciones originales que todavía siguen presentes en nuestros corazones.
PieroSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
[cantando] Llegando llegaste.
Michael BerkeleyHOST
You know, Francis, there are some singers who you just hear the opening phrase, and it's like Miles Davis on the trumpet, you know who this is.
Michael BerkeleyHOST
And that's one of the Mercedes Sosa, it's certainly one of those.
Michael BerkeleyHOST
Oh,
Francis FukuyamaGUEST
absolutely, yeah, she's amazing.
Michael BerkeleyHOST
Alfonsina Hjalmar, composed by Ariel Ramirez, the lyrics by Felix Luna, and performed by Mercedes Sosa.
Michael BerkeleyHOST
You're listening to Private Passions, where my guest this week is the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama.
Michael BerkeleyHOST
What kind of new ideas were you encountering at university in the 70s?
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He also produced his father's final studio album called Rising with the Blues.
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And Mercedes Sosa passed away in 2009 at the age of 74 from multi-organ failure.
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Nicknamed La Negra, she was a globally revered Argentine singer who became the voice of the Nueva Cancion movement, which was using folk music in order to fight political oppression.
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Next on the Music History Today podcast, it is October the 5th, when in 2011, the world lost the man who helped to create the iTunes, iPod, and iPhone, Apple CEOs, Steve Jobs.
Nicolas JaarSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
No me sonríe
Amy GoodmanHOST
"Solo le pido a Dios," "I Only Ask God", popularized by Mercedes Sosa and performed by the Chilean Palestinian American musician and producer Nicolas Jaar in our Democracy Now! studios in New York.
Amy GoodmanHOST
This is Democracy Now, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report.
Amy GoodmanHOST
I'm Amy Goodman in Berlin, Germany.
Nicolas JaarGUEST
It just would come up everywhere in Chile when I was growing up.
Nicolas JaarGUEST
And my mother is a big fan of Mercedes Sosa.
Nicolas JaarGUEST
And
Amy GoodmanHOST
talk about who Mercedes Sosa is.
Amy GoodmanHOST
Yeah, Mercedes
Nicolas JaarGUEST
Sosa, incredible, incredible personality singer and musician who influenced so many.
Nicolas JaarGUEST
so many of us, with the political nature of her work and also with, I think, all the other ways in which music speaks, right? Through emotion, through the heart.
Nicolas JaarGUEST
It's hard not to really get emotional, for me at least, listening to Mercedes Sosa's work.
Nicolas JarreGUEST
It just would come up everywhere in Chile when I was growing up.
Nicolas JarreGUEST
And my mother is a big fan of Mercedes Sosa.
Nicolas JarreGUEST
And
Amy GoodmanHOST
talk about who Mercedes Sosa is.
Amy GoodmanHOST
Yeah, Mercedes
Nicolas JarreGUEST
Sosa, incredible, incredible personality singer and musician who influenced so many.
Nicolas JarreGUEST
so many of us, with the political nature of her work and also with, I think, all the other ways in which music speaks, right? Through emotion, through the heart.
Nicolas JarreGUEST
It's hard not to really get emotional, for me at least, listening to Mercedes Sosa's work.
Amy GoodmanHOST
I only ask God.
Amy GoodmanHOST
Popularized by Mercedes Sosa and performed by the Chilean-Palestinian-American musician and producer Nicolas Jarre in our Democracy Now! studios in New York.
Amy GoodmanHOST
This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, the War and Peace Report.
Amy GoodmanHOST
I'm Amy Goodman in Berlin, Germany.
Amy GoodmanHOST
I only ask God.
Amy GoodmanHOST
Popularized by Mercedes Sosa and performed by the Chilean-Palestinian-American musician and producer Nicolas Jarre in our Democracy Now! studios in New York.
Amy GoodmanHOST
This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, the War and Peace Report.
Amy GoodmanHOST
I'm Amy Goodman in Berlin, Germany.
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