Atahualpa Yupanqui

Biography

Héctor Roberto Chavero, known as Atahualpa Yupanqui , born in Pergamino (area of Buenos Aires) the January 31st 1908 was a poet, singer and Argentinian guitarist.

Its pseudonym, selected as of adolescence, is made of Atahualpa, the last emperor INCA, assassinated by the Conquistador be of Francisco Pizarro, and Yupanqui, " large Méritant" , cacic supreme of the Indian quechuas.

His/her father is of ascent quechua, his Basque mother . He grows initially in El Campo of Cruz, in the north of Buenos Aires. Then it passes the remainder of its childhood to Fortín Roca, another village of the Pampa, where his/her father is station master. As of the six years age, he learns how to play of the violin and the guitar. With died on his father, in 1921, it is decided to become artist and practical various trade to earn its living. He then traverses big spaces of his country, discovering miserable reality where the people of the campaigns, Indians or mongrel saw. He becomes their spokesperson in his first compositions - Camino del Indio , Nostalgia de Tucumán . In 1928, journalist in Buenos Aires, it meets the Anthropologue Alfred Métraux, with which it explores the Bolivia. Its intimate knowledge of the beings, the landscapes, the ancestral habits and the Indian heart nourishes its inspiration.

It makes its beginnings in France in 1950, presented by Edith Piaf to the theater of the Athenaeum, with Paris. It acquires a certain notoriety and he becomes the friend of Louis Aragon, Paul Éluard, Picasso, Rafael Alberti. He multiplies the rounds in Europe and in the whole world.

Cash with its repertory more than 1.500 songs, according to the melody forms of the Argentinian folklore, it composes of the Milonga S, will chacareras, the vidalas, the zambas, the bagualas, the canciones. Sometimes, the musics of its songs are composed by his wife Paule Antoinette Pepin Fitzpatrick (pianist and compositrice born with Ground New, Canada, and died on November 14th, 1990 with Buenos-Surfaces, Argentina), who signs then Pablo del Cerro .

It publishes books:

  • Piedra sola , 1941
  • Cerro Bayo , 1943
  • Aires indios , 1946
  • Tierra that Anda , 1948
  • Guitarra , 1954
  • El canto LED viento , 1965
  • LED algarrobo Al cerezo , 1977 (with illustrations of Santiago Paz)
  • the capataza , 1992

He died the May 23rd 1992 with Nimes, France. According to its desire, its body was repatriated in its native land and rests in Cerro Colorado (Córdoba, Argentine).

External bonds

  • Discography

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