Today I present the poet, singer and guitarist Sum Peace! It is the first edition of about 15 podcasts with interviews with the greatest of Argentine folklore such as Eduardo Falu, Domingo Cura, Leda Valladares, Gustavo “Cuchi” Leguizamon, Atahualpa Yupanqui and Mercedes Sosa. On our site “

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” you will find more information about these Masters of Argentine folklore, concert videos and transcripts of interviews.

We begin this series dedicated to folklore with the great lady of southern singing: Suma Paz naciOr on April 5, 1938 in Santa Fe, but herself Grew upOr in the province of Buenos Aires. All the holidays Happened with his grandmother in the countryside, in the humid Pampas, on the border between the provinces of Santa Fe and of Buenos Aires. This landscape with its immense sky, its plains and its colors marked her for her whole life.

Suma Paz started playing guitar at age 6you. MLater he studied philosophy and letras at the National University of the Littoral. After graduating, he appearedor in various radio and television programsn. He is dedicatedor to the work of Atahualpa Yupanqui who considered to be his teacher.

But I also wrotehe sang his own songs. On his tours of Europe, Japan and the United States, he released the Southern Song around the world. She received numerous awards, including in 1995 as one of the five best folk singers of the d’sécada.

What Suma Paz told me at her home in Morón in February 1993 was full of poetry and wisdom.to. Me contOr what fascinated him so much about the work of Atahualpa Yupanqui. The two andran very amigors, and Yupanqui wrote to him again and again from his exile in Paris, diciéI told him not to stop fighting for the survival of the Sureñ Song.to.

Suma Paz spoke of why Argentines are so nostalgiclgicos. And whyé the landscape of the Pampa inspires its poets and singers to write contemplative songs full of philosophyía, in which the cry does not have place. Listen to for yourselves what this great poet and singer Suma Paz, who died in April 2009 with only 71 years, told me.