the greatest chilean

Hi my name is Nicolás and today I am going to talk about an important chilean and in my opinion the greatest chilean of all time

In my perspective, talking about music and musical quality, Victor Jara is the greatest composer of Chile of all time. I don´t shoulder its political color, although I share many of their ideas but I support his musical quality and influence to the new Chilean folklore and the "New Chilean Song". Victor Jara was born in 1932 in the town of San Ignacio, Bio Bio Region. During his youth he was prepared to be ordained priest, but there was where he met his vocation and his artistic side was already developed since childhood. His influence is important not only musically but also politically since he was a member of the Communist Party of Chile. He was the director of plays, was the musical director of the group "Quilapayún", play guitar as soloist in "La Peña de los Parra ", travel to Cuba y to the USSR, directed the honoring of the Nobel Prize of Pablo Neruda and little by little he became in an icon of the music and of the chilean politics of those years. He was murdered during the first days of the military dictatorship imposed by the Military Government guided by Augusto Pinochet. From there He became in a social icon in the Chilean idiosyncrasy. If I had the opportunity to ask him something, I wonder how he composed. If he simply grabbed his guitar and used to play songs or he thought before. He was a great person but also a great musician and a teacher and a guide for all who have ever touched a guitar.

His memory is more alive than ever not only in their political ideals that even still exist but in songs as beautiful as "Luchin" or as "El Cigarrito" and socially musically beautiful songs that transport us to the Chile of years ago.


"Que el canto tiene sentido,
cuando palpita en las venas
del que morirá cantando
las verdades verdaderas,
no las lisonjas fugaces
ni las famas extranjeras
sino el canto de una lonja
hasta el fondo de la tierra."

"Ahí donde llega todo
y donde todo comienza,
canto que ha sido valiente
siempre será canción nueva."
"Manifiesto" (fragment) - Victor Jara

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xhpMxrNxpI