Victor Heredia
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Through a repertoire that combined influences from the Cuban Trova and Argentine folkloric music with socially-conscious lyrics, the politically-minded singer-songwriter and writer VÃctor Heredia became the voice of the disenfranchisedâboth in his own native country and throughout the rest of Latin America. Born VÃctor Ramón Cournou Heredia on January 24, 1947, in Buenos Aires, he spent most of his childhood in the neighborhood of Paso del Rey, right outside the city's Capital District. He began performing from a very young age and won the newcomer's prize at the 1967 CosquÃn Festival when he was just 19 years old. His studio debut, Gritando Esperanzas, appeared only a year later. After taking home the main prize at CosquÃn in 1969, VÃctor Heredia jumped into the spotlight with the LP El Viejo MatÃas, which sold over half a million copies upon its release in 1970. The success of the album earned him the chance to represent Argentina at the OTI Festival in Madrid in 1972 with the song "Sabes Que Estamos Aquà América." In subsequent years, he issued a series of albums that put him at the forefront of the Latin folk music scene, including VÃctor Heredia Canta Pablo Neruda (1974), Bebe en Mi Cántaro (1975), and Paso del Rey (1976). Following his sister's and her husband's disappearance at the hands of Argentina's military dictatorship in 1976, VÃctor Heredia went into exile and continued his recording career in Spain. The return of democracy in the early 1980s marked the beginning of a new phase in his artistic journey, one that brought critical acclaim and commercial success through songs like "TodavÃa Cantamos" (1983), "Sobreviviendo" (1984), and "Razón de Vivir" (1985). Over the next decades, VÃctor Heredia maintained a prolific recording pace and collaborated closely with like-minded artists such as Mercedes Sosa and León Gieco, with whom he released the 2003 live album Argentina Quiere Cantar. In 2017, he celebrated five decades of music with the double live album 50 en Vuelo, featuring appearances by Lito Vitale, Ricardo Mollo, Juan Carlos Baglietto, and Soledad, among others. That same year, he was recognized with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Latin Grammys in Las Vegas.
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- Aquel Viejo Elixir
- Siempre Viva featuring Leon Gieco
- El Gran Motor
- Ciegas Banderas
- Todavia Cantamos by Victor Heredia
- Querida Beatriz
- Sólo Quiero La Vida
- Carta A MarÃa Cristina
- Todos Tenemos La Misma Idea
- Canción Con Todos (En Vivo) featuring Piero
- Manifiesto
- Informe Dos
- ¿Cuándo Será?
- Buenos DÃas Pájaros Del Alba
- Pasarán Estos DÃas Felices
- Casa De Antigüedades
- Las Plumas Y El Sol
- Esa Libertad Que Soñamos
- La Muerte No Es Morir
- La Vida Y La Panza En La Luna
- Estas Alas Nuevas
- Discurro Sobre El Bien
- Marivi
- Quiero Estar AquÃ
