canción
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Jara was a leading member of the leftist Nueva canción chilena movement that wanted to preserve the country’s folk tradition while advocating for social change through music.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 16, 2023
Throughout the eighties, you experimented wildly with genre, everything from Puccini to the Great American Songbook to Mexican canciones.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 1, 2019
Outside the frame, family patriarch Hipolito Rosas can often be heard accompanying them with acoustic guitar on canciones by such Mexican songwriting legends as Pepe Aguilar, José Alfredo Jiménez and Vicente Fernández.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2019
Translated as “Partier, Rebel and a Rude Girl,” this was one of the signature canciones of the late Jenni Rivera.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2018
Many of the songs he sang were the weird, melancholy, minor-keyed canciones that he had learned from the Mexican sheep herders and vaqueros.
From Sixes and Sevens by Henry, O.
Then outside Tonia swung in a grass hammock with her guitar and sang sad /canciones de amor/.
From Heart of the West by Henry, O.
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