Published on: 5th October, 2009
Mercedes Sosa Argentine folk singer and activist known as the “Voice of Latin America” died at Buenos Aires hospital. She was 74 years old and was suffering from multiple organ failure since last month after entering the hospital. Her body will lie in state today at Argentina’s Congressional building.
Sosa worked together with artists and musicians including Joan Baez, Shakira and Argentina rocker Charly Garcia and produced 40 albums over her long career. Sosa won best folk album awards from the Latin Recording Academy in 2000, 2003 and 2006. Argentina rocker Charly Garcia proclaimed her as Argentina’s, “greatest voice” Most recent albums of Sosa, Cantora 1 has been nominated for three Latin Grammys awards counting album of the year and best folklore album. The awards ceremony will take place in Las Vegas on November 5. Sosa fame and recognition in Latin America extended over four decades. Sosa attributed for the support of poor and fighting for political change and always raised her voice for the silent majority. Sosa along with her first husband Manuel Oscar Matus became a founder of Nueva Concert movement started in the mid-60. During the concert held at the Argentine city of La Plata in 1979, she was arrested on the stage. She left the country to live in Paris and Madrid and returned to her homeland in 1982 before the fall of military rule. Sosa was named as a “Goodwill Ambassador” for Latin America.
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