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10 Jul 11 - 09:00 AM (#3184807) Subject: Obit: Argentine singer Facundo Cabral murdered From: Matthew Edwards One of Latin America's most admired folk singers, Facundo Cabral, 74, was killed on Saturday 9 July 2011 at the end of a concert tour in Guatemala when three carloads of gunmen ambushed the vehicle in which he was riding, prompting expressions of anguish from across the region. Authorities said the performer's Nicaraguan concert promoter, Henry Farinas, was apparently the target. [Source: Associated Press] There are fuller reports available from The Guardian, the BBC, and The Washington Post. Here is a recent YouTube clip of Cabral performing his best known song No soy de acqui ni soy de alla ("I am not from here nor from there"). Some details of his life can be found on his the website facundocabral.org. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1937, and began singing in 1959. He fled the military dictatorship in Argentina in 1976 and settled in Mexico, but returned to Argentina in 1984. He composed his own songs of social criticism combined with humour. During an Associated Press interview in Miami at the age of 71 Cabral said; "I always ask God, 'Why have you given me so much?' You've given me misery, hunger, happiness, struggle, enlightenment ... I've seen everything. I know there's cancer, syphilis and springtime, and fried apple dumplings," Matthew Edwards |
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10 Jul 11 - 09:37 AM (#3184812) Subject: RE: Obit: Argentine singer Facundo Cabral murdered From: Fortunato Thank you for this message from what is, for me, a distant culture and a personality and intellect that is at once familiar and yet strange. |
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10 Jul 11 - 10:22 AM (#3184825) Subject: RE: Obit: Argentine singer Facundo Cabral murdered From: GUEST,willie-o no cookie appalling story. I just saw it on CNN. Gotta think we will be hearing a lot more about him. wo |
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10 Jul 11 - 10:31 AM (#3184830) Subject: RE: Obit: Argentine singer Facundo Cabral murdered From: Stringsinger A sad repeat of what happened to Victor Jara. The songs live on! |
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10 Jul 11 - 11:56 AM (#3184873) Subject: RE: Obit: Argentine singer Facundo Cabral murdered From: katlaughing How very sad and senseless. Thanks for the links. Reminds me we haven't seen much of Argentine Mudcatter Escamillo/Andres around here, lately. kat |
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10 Jul 11 - 12:00 PM (#3184874) Subject: RE: Obit: Argentine singer Facundo Cabral murdered From: Fred McCormick Thanks for that Matthew. To my eternal shame I've never heard of the guy, but it sounds like one more enlightened soul has been wiped out by the forces of reaction. |
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10 Jul 11 - 12:04 PM (#3184876) Subject: RE: Obit: Argentine singer Facundo Cabral murdered From: GUEST Very sad indeed. I think we have a couple of his CDs. We listen a lot to Ricardo Arjona from Guatemala |
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10 Jul 11 - 01:53 PM (#3184936) Subject: RE: Obit: Argentine singer Facundo Cabral murdered From: Bonzo3legs Guest above was me. No, my wife has ordered a couple of his Cds from Amazon. |
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10 Jul 11 - 02:02 PM (#3184940) Subject: RE: Obit: Argentine singer Facundo Cabral murdered From: pdq By the responses, some people don't understand that this man was not the target. A businessman who promoted the concert was the intended victim and Cabral just happened to be in the way of the bullets. Organized crime threatens democracy all over the world. Here is a list of the murder rates in several countries, death per 100,000 population... Honduras 77 El Salvador 70 Venezuela 48 Trinidad and Tobago 37 Colombia 32 Brazil 25 Panama 21 Mexico 18 Russia 13 Estonia 6.3 Latvia 3.6 New Zealand 1.76 Chile 1.3 Ireland 1.25 Denmark 0.85 Germany 0.84 Japan 0.83 Austria 0.56 Notice how many countries are located in Central America or near it. |
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10 Jul 11 - 02:31 PM (#3184958) Subject: RE: Obit: Argentine singer Facundo Cabral murdered From: katlaughing It doesn't matter if he was the target or not, pdq. It's still a damn shame. As to your last comment...no comment. This is not the place for another of your political de"baits." - kat-moderator |
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10 Jul 11 - 02:55 PM (#3184973) Subject: RE: Obit: Argentine singer Facundo Cabral murdered From: Arkie A tragedy irregardless of who was the target. For those like me who are not acquainted with Cabral's work here is a place one can get 30 second samples of four of his albums. emusic |
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10 Jul 11 - 03:52 PM (#3185003) Subject: RE: Obit: Argentine singer Facundo Cabral murdered From: Janie Thanks for posting this Matthew. I had never heard of him either, but when I saw the first news articles yesterday, I looked him up and listened to some of his music on YouTube. The music and his voice were lovely. Had the articles I saw not said "folk" musician, I probably would not have opened them. Not that other genres are not equally noteworthy, just that my interest is predominantly folk. Simple twists of fate - he had planned on taking a shuttle to the airport, but accepted a ride instead from the promoter, the intended target. What is the point you are wanting to make, pdq? That some people posting have erroneously assumed he was the target? If so, you are correct, and the rest of your post is a puzzlement. |
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10 Jul 11 - 04:07 PM (#3185010) Subject: RE: Obit: Argentine singer Facundo Cabral murdered From: ChanteyLass Another sad loss for the folk community. |
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14 Jul 11 - 05:27 AM (#3187264) Subject: RE: Obit: Argentine singer Facundo Cabral murdered From: Bonzo3legs We received his "20 Exitos" CD yesterday, that's 20 Hits of course. Now for all the Bill Leader protection army, the sound quality of these recordings from 1970 and 1971 is superb - but then it was recorded in Argentina of course!!!!!!!!! I do recommend this CD. |