Today they’re going to listen the interview with the emblemáTico poet, composer, singer and guitarist Juan “Tata” Cedrón, who in his songs fights for freedom and social justice against fascism and any kind of oppressionn. Juan Cedron, born in 1939, formed in 1964 a trio with César Stroscio (bandoneOr(n) and Miguel Praino (viola) until – adding the double bass player Jorge Sarraute – played in quartet.

The Cedron Quartet arrived in 1971 at the invitation of Paco Ibáñez and Paco Reves, the representative by Antonio Gades and Paco de LucI was to Torremolinos, Spain to play at a New Year’s Eve party for manyisimos drunken German tourists, as I Juan Cedron said in your apartment in París in November 1998.

After a tour of Spain, they recorded an album with Paco Ibáñez in 1972, which was released. in France. From then on, the Cedron Quartet touredOr Europe every year until Cedron in 1974 settled with his family in Paris, when it became too dangerous to stay in his native Argentina because of the military dictatorship.

Here the Cedron Quartet performed with great success at the Theatre de la Ville, the Olympia, the Bobino and other major venues throughout Europe. Cedron didn’t just sing his own songs at his concerts. AlsoHe put music to poems by important poets such as Juan Gelman, Julio Cortazar, Dylan Thomas and Bertolt Brecht. It also added to its functions the most important clásicos del tango de la época de oro.

Between the songs máknown s of Cedron están “Canción de Juancito Caminador”, “Balada del hombre que se callOr la boca” and “La cantata del gallo cantor”, in which Cedron tells the Massacre in Treleor of August 22, 1972, in which they were murdered ten and six pol prisonersíticos.

In our Long interview the Daddy Cedron me SpokeOr of muchisimthe topics so Interesting I want to share this talk with you in our podcast series: Cómo advocated a revival of traditional tango, which had beenían infamous fact among its generationn.

Analysisor cOrMo in his youth music rock and pop were displacing tango by the help of television and companiesas discográinternational ficas. Told the work ofthe extraordinary bandoneonist and composer Domingo Federico and the significant poets Juan Gelman, Robert Arlt and others….

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