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16 de Febrero, 2007

Gracias a la Vida

Categorized under Música | Tags: Viernes Noche Música, YouTube

GIVE ME A CLASSICAL GUITAR, a beautiful voice, a strong heart and a song, and I need little else to find a place of unparalleled joy. Here is Mercedes Sosa singing Gracias a la Vida. Enjoy your evening, cool cats.

She says a few words at the end, not all I can make out. I think she credits the guitarist, the writer of the song (a poet and a prophet she says, someone Gomez?) and says it is about the simple and small things in life? UPDATE: La Profesora translates for us.

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Comentarios (9)

liza dijo:

OMG, you're going old school ALL THE WAY!
Mercedes Sosa? Muchachito!
She's been singing longer you've been alive.

Palabras por liza spat forth on el 16 de Febrero, 2007 at 11:00 PM

nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez dijo:

sí, sí...but real beauty is trapped in no era!

Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez spat forth on el 16 de Febrero, 2007 at 11:06 PM

Professor Zero dijo:

I missed part of it, the water boiled and I went to take it off. She is talking about Cesare Pavese, the Italian poet. He was a visionary, says she, and Gomes (a composer, of the next song she will sing?) is also a visionary. She hopes we will like the next song.

Palabras por Professor Zero spat forth on el 17 de Febrero, 2007 at 01:32 AM

Professor Zero dijo:

OK, another little bit. Pavese said that poets pretend not to know what they already do know. And this next (composer? performer? - Gomes) did in fact, modestly, pretend not to know what he already did. He appreciated the small things in life and she hopes we will like the song.

Palabras por Professor Zero spat forth on el 17 de Febrero, 2007 at 01:40 AM