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WTFUNK by Victor Jara. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
- Víctor Jara’s Early Musical Life
- Turning to Politics
- Víctor Jara and The New Chilean Folk Movement
- The Bloody Outcome of The 1973 Chilean Coup D’Etat
- Víctor Jara’s Enduring Fame
It was Amanda Martínez, Víctor Jara’s mother, who first taught him to play music. A resilient woman descended from the Mapuche Indigenous people of Patagonia, she struggled to raise Víctor and his siblings alone after her abusive husband abandoned them. Looking for work that would allow her to support her children, Amanda moved the family to Santia...
While in school, Víctor Jara gravitated towards political activism. He became attracted to the Communist Party of Chile, which he would later join, after touring the country and visiting Cuba and the Soviet Union. In 1958, as he entered his third and final year at the university, the Communist Party was only just emerging from a decade during which...
Víctor Jara spent the next few years honing his musical abilities, stockpiling folk songs and composing original tunes. In 1960, he met the English-born dancer Joan Turner and, after a short courtship, married her and adopted her baby daughter as his own. His recording career began in earnest in 1966, with albums of songs that reflected working cla...
Allende got to work enacting his reforms. To Víctor Jara, it was a time of promise. As Joan Jara later remembered: “All those people who’d been struggling all their lives were crying and Allende arrived and he was almost in tears and I remember I had the honour of going to congratulate him. And he said: ‘Hug me harder because this is a very special...
After Víctor Jara was killed, the army put his body on display outside of the stadium. Then, they collected it with the remains of other dead prisoners and dumped them nearby. When friends alerted Joan to the location of Jara’s body, she quietly gathered and buried it before fleeing the country with their two daughters. In 1988, Chileans voted Pino...
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Aug 13, 2020 · A new album documents the life and death of Víctor Jara, a Chilean folk singer who became an international icon of resistance, writes Dorian Lynskey.
Dec 23, 2002 · Article on executed Chilean leftist and singer and songwriter Victor Jara, whose master tapes of recordings and concert appearances were destroyed when Gen Augusto Pinochet took power in 1973...
May 18, 2023 · The Chilean songwriter was politically committed until the end, when he was murdered by the Pinochet dictatorship’s soldiers. Víctor Jara (far right) marches in the final pro-Allende demonstration, a week before the military coup d’état. Marcelo Montecino (GETTY IMAGES) Mario Amorós. May 18, 2023 - 12:45 EDT.
Nov 18, 2018 · Victor Jara was a legendary Chilean folk singer and political activist, whose brutal killing following a military coup in 1973 went unsolved for decades. Now, his family may finally...
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Víctor Lidio Jara Martínez (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈbiɣtoɾ ˈliðjo ˈxaɾa maɾˈtines]; 28 September 1932 – 16 September 1973) was a Chilean teacher, theater director, poet, singer-songwriter and Communist political activist.
