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Mercedes sosa biografia
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Born in 1935, in Tucuman, Argentina. Began singing while a child; won amateur contest sponsored by local radio station at age 15; performed under extreme government censorship until the Argentine military government forbade her from making live performances; government also forbade her to record and her music was banned from television and radio; forced to flee Argentina, 1979; returned, 1982.
Mercedes Sosa's songs about the pain of exile, the fear of political violence, and the struggle for justice inspire millions of Latin Americans who know that Sosa has lived her words.
Born in rural Tucuman, Argentina, she grew up in a culture closer to that of the Incas than to that of their European conquerors.
Censurada mercedes sosa biography
Singing came naturally to her, and by the age of fifteen she had won the amateur hour at a local radio station. Sosa knew then that singing was her life's work, but she also suffered from intense stage fright that made every performance a struggle.
Nevertheless, she controlled her fea