El 10 de marzo/March 10th
¡Feliz cumpleaños a ... Alfredo Zitarrosa! (1936-1989) Image from alchetron.com. Click HERE . A Uruguayan singer, songwriter, poet, and journalist, he was a chief figure in the Nueva Canción movement, a social movement and musical genre characterized by folklore-inspired songs with socially conscious lyrics in Latin America. Because of the dictatorship in Uruguay, he lived in exile from 1976-1984 in Argentina, Spain, and Mexico. His songs were banned in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay during the dictatorial regimes in those countries. Zitarrosa started his career as a professional singer in 1964, when a friend got him a job singing on a Peruvian television show for $50. He repeated the experience on Bolivian radio shows and returned to Uruguay a singer. Before that, he had worked as a radio announcer and a journalist. He was also a poet, having won the Premio Municipal de Poesía for his book of poems, Explicaciones , in 1959. Zitarrosa was extremely popular in Latin America a...