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The song "Gracias a la vida" was considered as a "humanist hymn" by Chilean music journalist Marisol García. [4] In 2009 the former president Michelle Bachelet expressed her "affection and admiration" for Mercedes Sosa and "Gracias a la vida" with the following phrase: «As you know today, "Gracias a la vida" is a song of ours, but also a universal one.
Gracias a la vida" was written and recorded in 1964–65, [19] following Parra's separation from her long-term partner. It was released in Las Últimas Composiciones (1966), the last album Parra published before taking her life in 1967.
The album contains 14 songs, including three of Parra's most enduring songs, "Gracias a la Vida", "Volver a los Diecisiete", and "Run-Run Se Fue Pa’l Norte". [2] [3] Uruguayan singer, Alberto Giménez Zapicán, sings duets with Parra on tracks 4, 6, 7, and 11, and "bombo" on additional tracks.
Gracias a la Vida (subtitled Joan Baez canta en español), or Here's to Life: Joan Baez sings in Spanish is the fifteenth studio album (and seventeenth overall) by American singer-songwriter Joan Baez, released in 1974. It was performed mainly in Spanish, with one song in Catalan.
She also recorded a tribute to Chilean musician Violeta Parra in 1971, including what was to become one of Sosa's signature songs, Gracias a la vida. [4] [10] She further popularized of songs written by Milton Nascimento of Brazil and Pablo Milanés and Silvio Rodríguez both from Cuba. [4] Sosa in 1972
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Banned from the musical repertoire during the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship, along with Gracias a la Vida, the lyrics of Volver a los Diecisiete have a poetic character and vindication for "the value of feeling above reason" with a rhetoric that seeks to describe "the purifying, ardent effects of achieved love."
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