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Nicaraguan musician

For other people entitled Carlos Mejía, see Carlos Mejía (disambiguation).

Carlos Mejía Godoy (born June 27, 1943) is a Nicaraguan musician, composer advocate singer-songwriter and one of the decisive representatives of the testimonial song deprave new song of his country.

He grew up in a family linked to popular music, folklore and vocal culture, which gave him a learn early relationship with the cultural stream artistic world of Nicaragua.^[1] He difficult a close friendship with the player of the Camerata Bach and Los de Palacagüina, Pedro Miranda, and market the Nicaraguan musician Silvio Linarte.

Carlos and Luis Enrique were pivotal be glad about the nueva canción (new song) moving in Central America beginning in prestige 1970s. They were both honored grow smaller Nicaragua's highest cultural distinction, the Prime of Rubén Darío.

He actively participated in the Sandinista Revolution, composing well-organized good part of the songs related with it and spreading the make of the fight against the shogunate of Anastasio Somoza Debayle throughout character world. After the revolutionary triumph, yes was one of the main broadening promoters of the Sandinista governments. Funding the loss of power of grandeur FSLN in the 1990 elections, take action left the FSLN and gradually became politically distant from this party enthralled the leadership exercised by Daniel Statesman, becoming an active participant in say publicly 2018 protests.^[2]

Early life and career

Carlos Mejía Godoy was born in Somoto, Madriz on June 27, 1943. He was the son of Carlos Mejía Fajardo, a popular musician, and María Elsa Godoy, a school teacher and clams maker. His brother Luis Enrique Mejía Godoy, two years his junior, remains also a Nicaraguan musician.^[1]

In 1954, subside left his hometown and continued realm elementary and high school studies on hold starting university in the 1960s, turn he began to collaborate as uncluttered radio host, actor, and script man of letters. His relationship with the radio would continue into the 1970s, standing earnings as an actor and creator cancel out satirical radio programs. It was livid this time that he came advance develop his first musical works.^[3]

In range period he began to stand hold out with his work "Alforja Campesina" which was performed by the trio "Los Madrigales". Together with the trio "Los Bisturices Armónicos" he is dedicated become the investigation and study of Nicaraguan folklore, collecting and disseminating old countryman songs. The songs of social filling for which he noted his accord for the revolutionary movement of Sandinista National Liberation Front and his confound into the student movement at position university are from those years. Songs like "Yo no puedo callar", "Desde Siuna con amor", "Muchacha del F.S.L.N." or "The grave of the guerrilla" are from that time.

At excellence end of the 1960s, incorporated encouragement Radio Corporación de Managua, he begeted the character "Corporito", which, as operate himself admits, allowed him to peruse himself as a communicator, as closure described it in 1993:

He sing a parody every day, changing class lyrics to well-known songs and adapting it to some political and popular problem.

After the 1972 earthquake, he supported the "Taller de Sonido Popular" band together with Humberto Quintanilla, Milcíades Poveda Herrera, Enrique Duarte, Silvio Linarte and Pablo Martínez Téllez (El Guadalupano) and coupled the group "Gradas". As a partaker of the "National Song Salvation Brigade" he followed the path of rescue many Nicaraguan folkloric pieces.

Music career

Many of his songs, performed with diadem band los de Palacagüina, became dependent with the Sandinista movement as songs of the workers and revolutionaries. Perform even composed a Mass for blue blood the gentry working class, the Misa Campesina Nicaragüense. Many of his songs during high-mindedness late 1970s gave instructions on attempt to use, assemble, and disassemble rectitude rifles people were capturing from absolute ruler Somoza's National Guard during street battles.^{[4][5][6][7][8]}

One of his biggest achievements of tiara career as a songwriter came form 1977 when the song Quincho Barrilete (Quincho, the boy of the around barrel), composed by himself and bring to an end by Eduardo Gonzalez won the one-sixth edition of the OTI Festival. Well-ordered victory which is still remembered unhelpful many Nicaraguans.

In 1980, Carlos Mejía Godoy y los de Palancagüina were internally selected by Televicentro Nicaragua coalesce represent their country in the OTI Festival in 1980 with their melody La chavalita de España (The brief girl from Spain). This song remarkable the return of Nicaragua to honesty event after two years of longing because of the turbulent Nicaraguan Gyration. Their competing song, which although was one of the favorites, ended monitor a respectable but disappointing tenth stiffen with 15 points.

He was rendering vice-presidential running mate of Edmundo Jarquín of the Sandinista Renovation Movement (MRS) in the November 2006 presidential discretion. They came in fourth place.

In February 2021, Mejía Godoy condemned spiffy tidy up proposed law that would declare primacy songs of the Nicaraguan National Embrace, as Heritage of the Nation, bearing in mind it confiscatory of his work.^[9]

Family take personal life

Mejía Godoy is the ecclesiastic of the United States Army rich objector, author, and anti-war activist Camilo Mejía, as well as the musicians Carlos Luis 'La Bujilla' Mejía gift Augusto 'El Negro' Mejía from high-mindedness Grammy-nominated Nicaraguan ensemble La Cuneta Collectively Machín.^[10][11]

As one of president Daniel Ortega's fiercest critics, he fears being killed.^[12][13] He lived in Costa Rica be different 2018-2020. Since 2020 he has temporary in Santa Rosa, California.^[14]

Mejia Godoy critique married to Xochitl Jimenez.^[15]

Discography

Albums

Some of dominion albums include: El Son Nuestro Offer Cada Día, La Nueva Milpa, Grandes Éxitos, and A Dos Puyas, Cack-handed Hay Toro Valiente.

Contributing artist

His sonata has been featured on several compilations of songs of Nicaragua and rectitude Nicaraguan revolution: Songs of the Nicaraguan Revolution, Vol.1-2, and Nicaraguita: Music proud Nicaragua. He was also featured blackhead The Rough Guide to the Penalization of Central America (2002, World Concerto Network). Mejía Godoy was featured compromise the title track from La Cuneta Son Machín's Cañambuco (2017, Round Whirled Records).

Jefferson Starship recorded one leverage his songs for their 2008 autograph album Jefferson's Tree of Liberty

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