ANI CORDERO
Jul 20, 2014 by Marangeli 
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Posted under: Community, Keeping You in the Loop, Residencies & Collaborations, World Music
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On her first solo album, Recordar: Latin American Songs of Love and Protest, singer/songwriter Ani Cordero revisits songs by musical folk heroes from the 1930s through the 1970s including V
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Wonderful to see this here. For those of us who lived anywhere in Latin America tuhhrgoout the 1970s, the 9/11 date engraved on our consciousness is 9/11/73, Pinochet’s brutal devastation of the Allende years. Along with so much death (the imprisoned, the tortured, the missing, and those forced into lifetimes of exile), a subsidiary loss was art. The Allende years were known, among much else, for beautiful murals and a general flourishing of creativity in all genres. But what sustained so many during the long years of dictatorship was also art: the songs, poems, theater, and visual arts. This is where a people place their hope, waiting for the day when it may blossom again. Victor Jara’s Estadio Chile became a song sung tuhhrgoout the world. Art’s role in times of greatest despair as well as greatest joy is a constant reminder of how necessary it is.