The Argentinean troubadour Teresa Parodi will sing in Cuba with the microphone of Mercedes Sosa, which she keeps as a relic of whom she revered as a great mother.
Parodi revealed that her long-awaited Cuban tour will also have the mythical “Negra” Sosa, the great voice that unites American songwriters, she said.
“It was given to me by son of Mercedes, and I brought it as a piece of her to this country, which is the goal for those who defend the Latin American song,” the author of some thirty albums said.
With her horn-rimmed glasses, the singer stressed the twinning between Cuban and Argentine songs by artists such as Sosa, Maria Elena Walsh, Silvio Rodriguez and Pablo Milanes.
With a prolific work and aware of cultural hotbed that lies in the deep Argentina, Parodi feels privileged to have drunk of Violeta Parra , Atahualpa Yupanqui or Chico Buarque .
However, for her Mercedes Sosa was “the great mother, the voice that united all American songwriters “.
In Buenos Aires she has also directed the cultural space of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo in the former School of Naval Mechanics, a place of horror which now celebrates life.
“We exorcise old demons with art,” the 65 years old singer said, who sees an extraordinary future for the cultural development of Argentina, through policies such as the Media Law.
For many years the banality imposed tried to kill our culture, but to no avail, and now alternative voices have more visibility and we can compete, Parodi said.
