Cantos Cautivos
383 results where found for «Sinner, come to sweet Jesus»
- Music piece by:Artidorio Cresseri
- Testimony by:Germán Larrabe
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Melinka, Puchuncaví, 1974 - 1976
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- « This zamba was the first song we tried to perform in Puchuncaví, with a group made up of prisoners transferred from Chacabuco Detention Camp together with us, newly arrived 'puchuncas'. »
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- « I would like to forget you »
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- Music piece by:Collective creation
- Testimony by:Ignacio Puelma
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisoneros Ritoque, February 1975
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- « The sound of the sea was carried over the cabins of the Ritoque Prison Camp by the wind. It was the daily music given to us as a gift by the ocean. »
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- « I want to sing to the air, but it is in a bubble »
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- Music piece by:Unknown. Traditional Spanish children's song
- Testimony by:María Cecilia Marchant Rubilar
- Experience in:Cárcel de Mujeres Buen Pastor, La Serena, September 1973 - January 1974
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- « We adapted this song and produced a play based on it. Each of us played one of the characters. We spent a lot of time on this. »
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- « And the king too went to die in China »
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- Music piece by:Sergio Vesely
- Testimony by:Sergio Vesely
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- « One cold winter night of 1975, the small clinic of Melinka, in the Puchuncaví Detention Camp, became the setting for a touching story. »
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- « A true story »
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- Music piece by:Félix Luna (lyrics) and Ariel Ramírez (music). Popularised by Mercedes Sosa.
- Testimony by:Sergio Vesely
- Experience in:Villa Grimaldi, January 1975
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- « It was not easy to endure being locked up in one of Villa Grimaldi’s miserable cells, which resembled vertical coffins. It was even harder in the high temperatures of the summer months of the Andes foothills in Peñalolén. I was inside one of those cells, blindfolded, my feet and hands in chains. »
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- « to lie you down »
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- Music piece by:The Turtles ('Elenore'), with new lyrics by Gianni Morandi
- Testimony by:Eduardo René Cuevas
- Experience in:Cárcel de Los Ángeles, September 1973
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- « This song was a workhorse for the prisoners. Iván Moscoso sang it, accompanied by a guitar, in a powerful and defiant voice, and the most altruistic among us sung along in the presence of the gendarme guards, in a courtyard that was only for political prisoners. »
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- « it only belongs to me »
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- Music piece by:Víctor Canto and Luis Cifuentes (lyrics), Roberto Parra (music)
- Testimony by:Luis Cifuentes Seves
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, November 1973 - February 1974
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- « This
cueca was composed in Chacabuco between November 1973 and February 1974, and was sung by the band Los de Chacabuco, to which Víctor Canto and I belonged. »- [...]
- « Víctor Canto and Luis Cifuentes (lyrics), Roberto Parra (music) »
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- Music piece by:Eduardo Falú and Jaime Dávalos
- Testimony by:Luis Cifuentes Seves
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, November 1973 - February 1974
- Tags:
- « The Los de Chacabuco band, created and conducted by Ángel Parra, performed this zamba by Eduardo Falú and Jaime Davalos at the camp’s weekly shows. »
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- « in the sand you wrote to me »
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- Music piece by:Tino Carrasco
- Testimony by:Luis Cifuentes Seves
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, November 1973 - February 1974
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- « Los de Chacabuco, a band founded and conducted by Ángel Parra, performed this Venezuelan folk song, in the style of a joropo, singing it at the weekly prison camp show. I dare say it was one of the favourite songs of the audience, comprised of political prisoners. »
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- « to La Guaira they’ll return »
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- Music piece by:Fernando Z. Maldonado. Popularised by Vicente Fernández
- Testimony by:Jorge Montealegre Iturra
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