Amparo Ochoa

María Amparo Ochoa Castaños (born September 29, 1946 in Culiacán , Sinaloa state , Mexico, † February 8, 1994 ) was a Mexican singer .

Better known as Amparo Ochoa, she belonged to a generation of singers who had their origins in the 1960s and saw themselves from the beginning as a representative of the so-called “Nuevo Canción”, the new political song.

Career

From childhood she was noticed singing at home with her father and at events at school. In 1965 she took part in a singing competition in her hometown with the song of the "beautiful Lucero" and won it.

She lived in Culiacan, Sinaloa until 1969, where she was a teacher at a village school in her home state. Since she did not find her fulfillment in the primary school classes there, her sister was able to convince her that she must go to Mexico City as an excellent singer. In the same year she won first place in an amateur competition there. After this success, she began to use her music to defend social rights both in Mexico and in other parts of Latin America. She also took up studies at the Mexico School of Music, the Escuela Nacional de Música .

Since then, her songs have been about life, social causes, the workers, students, and eliminating social differences. Amparo sang in the university, in pubs, in cafes and in the best clubs in Mexico. She rose to fame in the mid-1970s and toured Latin America, the United States, Europe, and the Caribbean. She conveyed her message through music and became the voice of Mexico .

Amparo Ochoa was married to the filmmaker Jorge Amézquita. She has two children, Isaac Amézquita Ochoa and Maria Inés Amézquita Ochoa , who, like their mother, are engaged in singing. María Amparo Ochoa succumbed to stomach cancer on February 8, 1994.

Works

In 1971 she recorded her first LP De la mano del viento ("From the hand of the wind") on RCA. After the coup against Salvador Allende in 1974, an LP out of solidarity with the people of Chile. Only years later did she visit Chile on the occasion of the end of the military dictatorship, when Patricio Aylwin was elected President of the Republic.

Her unique vocal interpretation of the Curse of Malinche (by Gabino Palomares ) is an excellent example of her way of interpreting historical events. Her song is also well known: Por medio de la lectura (Through the reading).

Works in excerpts

• De la mano del viento, 1971
• Cancionero de la Intervención Francesa, 1973
• Yo pienso que a mi pueblo, 1978
• Cancionero popular mexicano (vol. 1) 1980
• Amparo Ochoa canta con los niños, 1983
• Abril en Managua, 1983
• Mujer, 1985
• Cancionero popular mexicano (vol. 2), 1986
• Zazhil y Amparo Ochoa en Holanda, 1986
• Vamos Juntos, 1986
• Amparo Ochoa canta trova y algo más de Yucatán
• Amparo Ochoa canta boleros
• Boleros
• Corridos y canciones de la revolución mexicana
• Por siempre, 2006
• Amparo Ochoa, Óscar Chávez, Los Morales en Holanda
• Tengo que hablarle, 1987
• Y la canción se hizo ...
• A lo mestizo, 1992
• Hecho en México, 1993
• Raíz Viva, 1995
• La maldicion de malinche
• Cuando agosto era 21

Individual evidence

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