Facundo Cabral: The hope that vibrates in the souls of peoples (+seeding)

On July 9, 2011, the physical departure of the Argentinian singer-songwriter and poet, Facundo Cabral, took place, who stood out for his prose charged with deep love for humanity, which filled those who enjoyed the work of this immortal voice of the peoples with hope.

Born on May 22, 1937, in the city of La Plata, Buenos Aires, he moved to Tandil where he grew up in the midst of a bloody poverty that forced him to flee his home at the young age of 9, to move to Buenos Aires, where he managed to approach the then president Juan Domingo Perón, whom he asked to give him work, because it was the popular belief that the southern president “gave work to the poor”.

From this anecdote, Facundo always remembered the words Eva Perón said when she heard the little one apply for a job: “Finally, someone who asks for work and doesn't give alms”. Thanks to this conversation, he managed to get his mother a job and the rest of the family moved to Tandil.

Already in this Argentinian town, Facundo had a difficult childhood that led him to be locked up in a reform school because he was diagnosed as an alcoholic, a place from which he escaped. Already on the street, he is imprisoned for his violent nature, where he is protected by a Jesuit priest named Simon who taught him to read and write, brought him into contact with universal literature and encouraged him to carry out his primary and secondary education studies, which he completed in three years, instead of the twelve that was the normal period in Argentina.

“I started singing with the villagers, with the Techeiro family, in Tandil. On February 24, 1954, a drifter recited the Sermon on the Mount to me and I discovered that I was being born. I ran to write a lullaby, Fly Low, and it all started,” he described one day when asked about his beginnings in the world of music.

His first stage name was “Indio Gasparino”. His first recordings had no major impact. He then introduced himself with his real last name, managing to become an established artist when he released his successful album “Nos soy de aqui, ni soy de alla” in 1970.

After decades of a successful career and the loss of his wife and daughter in a plane crash that he described as the most heartbreaking moment of his life, Facundo, the eternal singer, Tandil's son, was the victim of a bullet hit by a hit man in Guatemala City, who had been hired to murder the producer who had hired him and who was in the same car.

On the 13th anniversary of this fateful day that blinded the life of the eternal traveler, the peoples of the world sing the songs of those who, more than a singer, were an example of struggle and love for humanity.

Mazo News Team