Mercedes Sosa: The Voice of Latin America
Monday December 8, 2014, 8:45pm
Vancity Theatre
DIRECTOR: Rodrigo H. Vila
FEATURING: Fabian Matus, Pablo Milanés, León Gieco, Milton Nascimento, Isabel Parra, Chico Buarque, David Byrne
(Argentina, 2013, 93 min.)
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Argentina’s Mercedes Sosa (1935-2009) was one of the most talented and politically engaged singers of the 20th century. Known as “the voice of the voiceless ones,” she was a mainstay of the nueva canción folk movement, dazzled audiences worldwide, won numerous Grammy awards and suffered exile from her native land at the hands of the dictatorship. Rodgrigo H. Vila’s affecting portrait melds glorious archival concert footage and contemporary interviews to breathtaking effect.