Victor Heredia

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Víctor Ramón Cournou Heredia (Buenos Aires, January 24, 1947), known as Víctor Heredia, is an Argentine singer-songwriter, poet, writer and troubadour whose compositions regularly They are about love, peace and freedom.

Biography

Víctor was born in the Monserrat neighborhood, in the city of Buenos Aires, and grew up in Paso del Rey, Moreno district, in the second cordon of the Buenos Aires suburbs. His paternal family (Cournou) is of French origin, while his maternal grandmother belonged to the Capayán ethnic group, and was born in the Calchaquíes Valleys, in the province of Catamarca. Although he began his school education in the Monserrat neighborhood, at the age of 9 he entered Escuela 18 in Paso del Rey, where he finished elementary school.

In 1967, at the age of 19, he won the Youth Revelation award at the Cosquín Festival. In 1969 she won the Consecration award at the same festival and her album El viejo Matías sold more than half a million copies. She represented her country at the 1972 OTI Festival. In 1974 she released an album in homage to the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda.

On March 24, 2012, the film "El Abyss... we are still here" of the Director Pablo Yotich, where he was in charge of the musical direction.

She stands out for her songs referring to social problems in Latin America and human rights. He has recorded with artists such as Joan Manuel Serrat, Mercedes Sosa, León Gieco, Milton Nascimento, the Zupay Quartet, Silvio Rodríguez, Pablo Milanés and Geo Meneses, among others. During his youth he was a member of the Communist Party, an organization from which he disassociated himself in 1978, due to the supposed closeness of the party to the dictatorship headed by Jorge Rafael Videla.

It suffered censorship during the Argentine civic-military dictatorship that began in 1976. Her sister, María Cristina Cournou, was kidnapped along with her husband on June 17, 1976 and is still missing. Heredia collaborates closely with organizations that denounce the crimes of the dictatorship, such as the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo and the Grandmothers. of Plaza de Mayo, also with organizations of indigenous peoples.^{[citation required]}

The song "A Day of Grace" appeared in Paraguay, for the first time, in the same year, promoting its presence in that country, in full Stroessner's civic-military dictatorship, defying censorship. Almost twelve years later, after the events of the Paraguayan March, on April 5 In 1999, Telefuturo premiered Matinal Día a Día hosted by Oscar Acosta and María Teresa López and Arturo Máximo Rubín, with said music as background.

Among his works are hits such as «Todavía cantamos» and «Sobreviviendo» (Solo quiero la vida, 1984), «Bailando con tu sombra (Alelí)» (Phoenix, 2003), «Courage», «Razón de vivir», «Amanecer frente a tu casa», «Esa libertad que soñamos», «El viejo Matías», «Ojos de cielo» or «Dulce Daniela», and albums conceptual ones such as Taki Ongoy, in homage to the millennial, political-religious movement (1560-1572) against Spanish acculturation, composed in 1986 and which recalls the struggle of the American peoples for their freedom. In 1985 he received a Konex Award - Diploma of Merit in the Baladista discipline and in 1995 he received the Platinum Konex in the discipline Author / Composer of Pop / Ballad, as well as participating in the first album by Raly Barrionuevo entitled El principio from the end, and is summoned to participate in the homage to Carlos Gardel on the 60th anniversary of his death, held at the Teatro Nacional Cervantes with the production of Grupo América, performing the tango My night sad. In 1999 he was summoned by Lito Vitale to participate in his album El grito sagrado together with María Elena Walsh, Alejandro Lerner, Jairo, Juan Carlos Baglietto, Sandra Mihanovich, Pedro Aznar and Fabiana Cantilo, interpreting the Aurora. In 2003 he released the album Argentina wants to sing, which recorded a series of concerts that he gave together with Mercedes Sosa and León Gieco. In 2004 he ventured into literature and published the novel Someone here with me, which was followed by Rincón del diablo two years later.

As an author and composer, he has won the Viña del Mar International Song Festival four times: in the international competition in 1997, 2001 and 2009, and the folkloric competition in 2004.

On May 25, 2014, he was part of the celebrations for the anniversary of the May Revolution, within the framework of the show "Somos Cultura" of the Ministry of Culture of the Nation.

We still sing is one of the author's strongest hits. In June 2019, 35 years of this emblematic work were celebrated and a great celebration was held at the Teatro Gran Rex in the City of Buenos Aires, followed by Quality Espacio in Córdoba and closing the concert tour at the Teatro El Círculo in Rosario.

The version was made with the current band and guest musicians. While the screen showed the Mothers and Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, in black and white photos and videos and in other current ones. And in the middle of the song, the irruption of the rapper and freestyler Wos, anchoring the song in the present: “Even though they throw us away, we still continue to sing and love life”, the young man rapped.

Works

Discography

Original Albums

1968: Screaming hopes - RCA Camden
1969: Victor Heredia - Microphon Argentina S.R.L.
1970: Old Matías - Microphon Argentina S.R.L.
1971: From where I am - Microphon Argentina S.R.L.
1973: Reasons - Philips
1974: Victor Heredia sings Pablo Neruda - Philips
1975: What a beautiful song - Philips
1975: Drink in my pitcher - Philips
1976: Step of the King - Philips
1977: When I say woman - Philips
1981: You see, it dawns. - Philips
1982: Open doors - Philips
1982: Recital - Philips
1983: Victor Heredia sings Pablo Neruda (New Vision) - Polygram Discos S.A.
1983: Those lead welders - Polygram Discos S.A.
1984: I just want life. - Philips
1985: Cut! - Philips
1986: Taki Ongoy - Philips
1987: A Day of Grace - Philips
1988: Memory - Philips
1991: Letter of a shipwreck - Polygram Discos S.A.
1992: En vivo ́92 - Polygram Discos S.A.
1992: In the meantime - EMSSA Argentina
1994: Love syndrome - BMG Ariola Argentina S.A.
1995: Live in the Trastend - EMSSA Argentina
1996: Of love and blood - Polygram Discos S.A.
1998: Brands - Polygram Discos S.A.
1998: RCA Club – Víctor Heredia - RCA
2000: Live heredia 1 - Warner Music Argentina S.A.
2000: Heredia live 2 - Warner Music Argentina S.A.
2001: Then - AMERICAN ALTERNATIVE
2001: Victor Heredia 3 - Page 12
2003: Phoenix - AMERICAN ALTERNATIVE
2005: Tierna friends - AMERICAN ALTERNATIVE
2008: Citizen - Sony Music Entertainment Argentina S.A.
2010: The Essentials - Sony Music Entertainment Argentina S.A.
2012: Taky Ongoy Live - The True History of Conquest - DISTRIBUTOR BELGRAN NORTE S.R.L.
2013: Someday... - American Alternative
2017: 50 in flight, Chapter 1 - RCA Victor.
2017: 50 in flight, Chapter 2 - RCA Victor.

Compilations and reissues

1968: Give me the hand girl - GROOVE
1972: 20 Great Successes - Microphony Argentina
1972: Beautiful Moments - Microphony Argentina
1983: Unforgettable Series - Microphon Argentina S.A.
1984: Cassette Club - Microphon Argentina S.A.
1986: The Best of Victor Heredia
1990: Victor Heredia - Polygram Discos S.A.
1991: Victor Heredia' - Microfón USA
1995: Ours - Polygram Discos S.A.
1996: Front - Víctor Heredia / Sergio Denis - Sony Music Entertainment Argentina S.A.
1996: Scenario Collection - We're getting old - Polygram Discos S.A.
1997: Collection Chronicle - Sony Music Entertainment Argentina S.A.
1997: The Best of Victor Heredia - BMG ARIOLA Argentina S.A.
2001: Victor Heredia - Universal Music S.A.
2002: Live sings to Pablo Neruda 83' - American Alternative
2004: The Essentials - Sony Music Entertainment Argentina S.A.
2004: Classic/03 - UNIVERSAL RECORDS Argentina
2007: The Art of Victor Heredia - Polygram Discos S.A.
2007: Colour Collection - Universal Music Argentina S.A.
2008: Clarín Collection (No. 17) - CLARIN
2009: Gold - Great Successes - Universal Music Argentina S.A.
2009: Elected - Sony Music Entertainment Argentina S.A.

Groups

(?????): Popular music meeting - Humor - Silvio Rodríguez / Víctor Heredia' - Philips
1984: I sing to poetry together with Cesar Isella and Quartet Zupay - Philips
1985: Song for a child on the street - RCA
1996: All voices all
1999: Heredia & Gieco - solos with friends - Universal Music S.A.
2000: Heredia - Gieco en vivo' - EMI Odeon
2002: Serenade for the land of one Together with Mercedes Sosa and León Gieco - Universal Music S.A.
2003: Argentina wants to sing Together with Mercedes Sosa and León Gieco
2004: I sing for change

Work on DVD

2002: "Live at Luna Park"
2004: "Live in the White Hall"
2013: "Looking for Major Andresito"

Some posts

1987. Victor Heredia: we still sing. He published Ed. Galerna, 389 p.
2006. Devil's corner. Eldorado Collection. Editorial Norma Group, 228 p. ISBN 9875453870, ISBN 9789875453876 Rincón del Diablo is an isolated village north of the province of Santa Fe, the scene of a tragic duel with a knife, origin of a dark legend that organizes and defines the life of the people, perhaps as in all the peoples. On that legend surrounded by a halo of mystery, with bodies that disappear and ghosts of appearing, this new novel by Victor Heredia is mounted to build an exciting and rigorous rural thriller. Cipriano Airala is a solo field pawn but also, and above all, a self-taught reflexive and refined, which has a prodigious memory and a natural capacity for the story. Every Saturday night, the people of the village and the surroundings meet in the bowl of the plunder to listen, seduced and credulous, the oral versions of the classic police and terror of all the times that Cipriano Airala relates. It is almost inevitable that Cipriano will then become the informant chosen by the bureau Commissioner Di Paola, who comes to the town to desent that crime, fed up with the ghost stories that throw the area. Their intense dialogues stage a dialectical game between subtlety and brutality, wisdom and ignorance, law and truth, and between the manipulation of words and bodies. With rigor, intelligence, and also with humor, Rincón del Diablo is thus inscribed in the best tradition of Argentine literature, which knows how to enter fiction and politics, from Echeverria to Rodolfo Walsh.
2007. The True Song: A Personal History of Latin America. Essays (Cántaro (Firm) with Felipe Pigna. Ed. illustrated by Cántaro, 218 p. ISBN 9507532080, ISBN 9789507532085
2014. Someone here with me. The Gold Collection. Editorial Norma Group, 175 p. ISBN 9875451517, ISBN 9789875451513
2015. Dogs. He published Planet, 203 p. ISBN 9504945619, ISBN 9789504945611