Valencia carlos mejia godoy biography
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Date: 1/1/1987Call Number: Vin 066Format: VinylProducers: Rounder RecordsCollection: General materials
The album is a collection of Nicaraguan revolution songs written by the Mejia Godoy brothers. They composed these "anthemic" and "instructional" songs for the population enabling isolated and illiterate "campesinos" to participate in the activities of their own liberation from the Somoza dictatorship. These songs helped coordinate the insurrection's campaign to connect and encourage the many revolutionary groups in Nicaragua.
Date: 1/1/1987Call Number: Vin 068Format: VinylProducers: EnigracCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
The album is a collection of Nicaraguan revolution songs written by the Mejia Godoy brothers. They composed these "anthemic" and "instructional" songs for the population enabling isolated and illiterate "campesinos" to participate in the activities of their own liberation from the Somoza dictatorship. These songs helped coordinate the insurrection's campaign to connect and encourage the many revolutionary groups in Nicaragua.
Call Number: Vin 072Format: VinylProducers: Guazapa EditorialCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
This album released during the revolution in El Salvador, was to promote the struggle and fight of the people. All the proceed of the album went to the fight of the Salvadoran people.
OTI Festival 1980
The OTI Festival 1980 was the ninth edition of the annual OTI Festival. It was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, following the country's victory at the 1979 contest with the song "Cuenta conmigo" by Daniel Ríolobos. Organised by the Organización de Televisión Iberoamericana (OTI) and host broadcasters Canal 7 and Canal 13, the contest was held at the 1049-seat Martín Coronado room of the Teatro General San Martín on Saturday 15 November 1980 and was hosted by Antonio Carrizo and Liliana López Foresi.
In this edition the number of participating countries reached a new record of 23 delegations, the winner was the performer of Puerto Rico, Rafael José, who had previously represented his country back in 1978. The winning song was "Contigo mujer" (With you woman).
Background
According to the original rules of the OTI festival, the winning country of the previous year would organise the next edition, a rule that had to be removed in 1978 due to the civil war in Nicaragua, since then, the host city of the festival was decided in a draw organised by the Iberoamerican Television Organisation for the following two year. However, that original rule was re-established because of the Argentine victory of the previous edition by the bolero singer Daniel Riolobos and his song "Cuenta conmigo" (Count with me) and also because of the willingness of the participating Argentinian broadcasters: Canal 7 and Canal 13 to host and to organise the contest.
Naturally, both host broadcasters agreed, after a meeting, to host the festival in Buenos Aires.
Venue
Canal 7 and Canal 13, the Argentine privately owned OTI full member broadcasters agreed to organise the festival in the Martin Coronado Room of the Teatro General San Martín, in downtown Buenos Aires. This theatre is one of the oldest in the capital city of Argentina. The planification of the building dates back to 1908, but the project could not go forward because of the dislike of th .