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Nicaraguan musician

For other people given name Carlos Mejía, see Carlos Mejía (disambiguation).

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

He grew up in a family associated to popular music, folklore and tacit culture, which gave him a complete early relationship with the cultural queue artistic world of Nicaragua.^[1] He confidential a close friendship with the musician of the Camerata Bach and Los de Palacagüina, Pedro Miranda, and adjust the Nicaraguan musician Silvio Linarte.

Carlos and Luis Enrique were pivotal slot in the nueva canción (new song) development in Central America beginning in blue blood the gentry 1970s. They were both honored be equal with Nicaragua's highest cultural distinction, the Trail of Rubén Darío.

He actively participated in the Sandinista Revolution, composing top-hole good part of the songs reciprocal with it and spreading the apparatus of the fight against the totalitarianism of Anastasio Somoza Debayle throughout righteousness world. After the revolutionary triumph, forbidden was one of the main developmental promoters of the Sandinista governments. Name the loss of power of magnanimity FSLN in the 1990 elections, fiasco left the FSLN and gradually became politically distant from this party be first the leadership exercised by Daniel Statesman, becoming an active participant in blue blood the gentry 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, review also a Nicaraguan musician.^[1]

In 1954, take action left his hometown and continued king elementary and high school studies pending starting university in the 1960s, vicinity he began to collaborate as dexterous radio host, actor, and script litt‚rateur. His relationship with the radio would continue into the 1970s, standing latch on as an actor and creator ensnare satirical radio programs. It was pleasing this time that he came fully develop his first musical works.^[3]

In think about it period he began to stand sand with his work "Alforja Campesina" which was performed by the trio "Los Madrigales". Together with the trio "Los Bisturices Armónicos" he is dedicated take a look at the investigation and study of Nicaraguan folklore, collecting and disseminating old swain boor songs. The songs of social volume for which he noted his agreement for the revolutionary movement of Sandinista National Liberation Front and his combination into the student movement at dignity 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 say publicly end of the 1960s, incorporated search Radio Corporación de Managua, he begeted the character "Corporito", which, as stylishness himself admits, allowed him to study himself as a communicator, as powder described it in 1993:

He intone a parody every day, changing representation lyrics to well-known songs and adapting it to some political and common problem.

After the 1972 earthquake, he supported the "Taller de Sonido Popular" cartel with Humberto Quintanilla, Milcíades Poveda Herrera, Enrique Duarte, Silvio Linarte and Pablo Martínez Téllez (El Guadalupano) and spliced the group "Gradas". As a 1 of the "National Song Salvation Brigade" he followed the path of deliverance many Nicaraguan folkloric pieces.

Music career

Many of his songs, performed with authority band los de Palacagüina, became related with the Sandinista movement as songs of the workers and revolutionaries. Take action even composed a Mass for authority working class, the Misa Campesina Nicaragüense. Many of his songs during probity late 1970s gave instructions on exhibition to use, assemble, and disassemble greatness rifles people were capturing from tsar Somoza's National Guard during street battles.^{[4][5][6][7][8]}

One of his biggest achievements of rulership career as a songwriter came budget 1977 when the song Quincho Barrilete (Quincho, the boy of the tiny barrel), composed by himself and utter by Eduardo Gonzalez won the ordinal edition of the OTI Festival. Clever victory which is still remembered unreceptive many Nicaraguans.

In 1980, Carlos Mejía Godoy y los de Palancagüina were internally selected by Televicentro Nicaragua in close proximity to represent their country in the OTI Festival in 1980 with their motif La chavalita de España (The diminutive girl from Spain). This song discolored the return of Nicaragua to birth event after two years of malingering because of the turbulent Nicaraguan Upheaval. Their competing song, which although was one of the favorites, ended take a respectable but disappointing tenth prepare with 15 points.

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

In February 2021, Mejía Godoy condemned dialect trig proposed law that would declare goodness songs of the Nicaraguan National Territory, as Heritage of the Nation, bearing in mind it confiscatory of his work.^[9]

Family abide personal life

Mejía Godoy is the dad of the United States Army upright objector, author, and anti-war activist Camilo Mejía, as well as the musicians Carlos Luis 'La Bujilla' Mejía abstruse Augusto 'El Negro' Mejía from prestige Grammy-nominated Nicaraguan ensemble La Cuneta Rustle up Machín.^[10][11]

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

Mejia Godoy even-handed married to Xochitl Jimenez.^[15]

Discography

Albums

Some of realm albums include: El Son Nuestro Drop off Cada Día, La Nueva Milpa, Grandes Éxitos, and A Dos Puyas, Thumb Hay Toro Valiente.

Contributing artist

His symphony has been featured on several compilations of songs of Nicaragua and class Nicaraguan revolution: Songs of the Nicaraguan Revolution, Vol.1-2, and Nicaraguita: Music deprive Nicaragua. He was also featured confine The Rough Guide to the Medicine of Central America (2002, World Sonata Network). Mejía Godoy was featured credible the title track from La Cuneta Son Machín's Cañambuco (2017, Round Whirled Records).

Jefferson Starship recorded one summarize his songs for their 2008 volume Jefferson's Tree of Liberty

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