Horacio Guarany

Horacio Guarany with Mercedes Sosa (single cover 1977).

Heráclito Catain Rodríguez Cereijo , (born May 15, 1925 in Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz , † January 13, 2017 in Luján ), known under the stage name Horacio Guarany (after the indigenous Guaraní people ) was an Argentine folk singer and writer.

Life

Guarany is the son of Jorge Rodríguez, an indigenous person from the province of Corrientes , and the native Spanish Feliciana Cereijo de Rodríguez from León . Guarany had 13 siblings.

His father worked for the British company La Forestal . The family lived on Monte Chaqueño. In 1925 they were near Guasuncho or Intillaco , later the family moved to Alto Verde .

Guarany took a liking to music as a child and learned to play the guitar with Santiago Aicardi. In 1943 he traveled to Buenos Aires to learn how to sing. He lived in a boarding house, and to survive he sang at La Rueda pub in La Boca . He later worked as a cook.

In 1957 he made his debut on Belgrano Radio and was able to make his composition El mensú (by his brothers Ramón Ayala (El Mensú) and Vicente Cidade) known to a wider audience. In 1961 he co-founded the Festival Nacional de Cosquín , and his songs became classics year after year: "Guitarra de medianoche", "Milonga para mi perro", "La guerrillera", "No sé por qué piensas tú", "Regalito" and “Si se calla el cantor”. Several of his compositions set texts by the poet Juan Eduardo Piatelli from Tucuman ; these include “Canción del perdón” and “No quisiera quererte”.

After the fall of the Argentine President Juan Domingo Perón in 1955, he joined the Partido Comunista Argentino . He actively participated and took a public position, which hurt his career.

In 1972 he made his first feature film Si se calla el cantor with Olga Zubarry , which is about the triumph of a singer after bad experiences. In 1974, also directed by Enrique Dawi , he took on the film La vuelta de Martín Fierro with Onofre Lovero , a tale of the life of José Hernández and his work Martín Fierro .

Guarany received death threats, bombings were carried out and he went into exile in Spain. In the process of the national reorganization his recordings disappeared and some of his songs like La guerrillera or Estamos prisioneros were censored.

He returned to Argentina in December 1978, and on January 20, 1979 a bomb exploded in his home on Manuel Ugarte street in Buenos Aires. Guarany decided to stay in Argentina, although he could only host events inland.

He returned to the stage and television with democracy in 1983. In 1987 he performed at the Fiesta Nacional de la Tradición Frente al Mar in Miramar . In 1989 he supported the presidential candidacy of his friend Carlos Saúl Menem .

At the end of 2002 he performed together with Soledad Pastorutti in Luna Park in Buenos Aires . The concert was released as a live album Sole y Horacio juntos por única vez (Sole and Horacio together for a single time). His last concert took place there in October 2009.

Guarany lived on his Finca Plumas Verdes in Luján .

Discography

• 1977: Si se calla el cantor (with Mercedes Sosa)
• 2003: Sole y Horacio juntos por única vez (live)

Fonts

• El loco de la guerra
• Las cartas del silencio
• Sapucay
• Memorias del Cantor , autobiography

Web links

• Horacio Guarany in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Official website
• A los 91 años: Murió Horacio Guarany . exitoina , January 13, 2017 (Spanish).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Los nombres de los famosos, según su DNI Perfil , archived from the original on June 29, 2012 ; accessed on January 4, 2017 . 
2. ^ Murió Horacio Guarany, a los 91 años . Infobae.com, January 13, 2017, accessed January 14, 2017 (Spanish).
3. ↑ Canciones prohibidas: cantables cuyas letras se consideran no aptas para ser difundidas por los servicios de radiodifusión. (pdf; 477 kB) Comité Federal de Radiodifusión with the Argentine President , July 5, 1982, archived from the original on August 26, 2009 ; Retrieved January 14, 2017 (Spanish).