From career milestones to new music releases to major announcements and those little important moments, Billboard editors highlight uplifting moments in Latin music. Here’s what happened in the Latin ...
As one of the luminaries behind Chile’s Nueva Canción folk movement, singer-songwriter Víctor Jara was renowed worldwide for his heartrending protest songs promoting social justice, freedom and ...
The violent nature of Chilean singer-songwriter Victor Jara’s death in September 1973 — many call it an assassination — made him a martyr to the cause of social justice. A mythology immediately arose ...
Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook On Sept. 11, 1973, the Chilean president, a socialist named Salvador Allende, was forcibly removed ...
On the night of September 15, 1973, Victor Jara was picked out of a line of prisoners being led out from the Chile Stadium to the National Stadium, another detention centre, in the days following ...
As the front woman for energetic bilingual group Los Abandoned, Pilar Díaz doesn't initially strike one as a folk-music aficionada, especially amid the DayGlo new-wave riffs of “Van Nuys (Es Very Nice ...
With just two songs on the playlist, this album makes sure that the listener is hooked on to it. Aditya Bedekar s music is a mix of modern and classical, and both the songs display these attributes. & ...
A new album documents the life and death of Víctor Jara, a Chilean folk singer who became an international icon of resistance, writes Dorian Lynskey. Víctor Jara named his last song after the place ...
There were many notable aspects of Xavier Jara’s recital for GuitarSarasota Saturday evening, other than the expert and delicate skills of the young guitarist, including the rapt and silent attention ...
Soldiers crushed Victor Jara's fingers to symbolically silence his guitar, and then shot him 44 times in 1973. They did not succeed in muting his music, or his message. By Judy Cantor-Navas Victor ...
Written by the legendary Chilean folk singer Víctor Jara, the 1971 song, “El Derecho de Vivir en Paz,” or “The Right to Live in Peace,” was originally dedicated to Vietnamese communist leader Ho Chi ...
NEW YORK-- This Hispanic Heritage Month, CBS2 is highlighting a group of NYPD officers who are using music to elevate their platform and connect with those they have pledged to protect and serve. They ...
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