Amparo Ochoa

María Amparo Ochoa Castaño ( born September 29, 1946 in Culiacan, Sinaloa, 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 from the outset as a representative of the so-called " Nuevo Canción ", the new political song, mind.

Career

From childhood, she fell by the singing at home with her father and at events in the school. In 1965, she participated with the song of the " beautiful Lucero " in a singing contest in her hometown and won it.

She lived until 1969 in Culiacan, Sinaloa, where he was a teacher at a village school in their home state. Since they are not found there, in education of primary school children their fulfillment, her sister convinced her that she had to go as an excellent singer to Mexico City. In the same year she won there first place in an amateur competition. After this success, they began to use their music for the defense of social rights both in Mexico and in other parts of Latin America. They also took a course at the Academy of Music in Mexico, the Escuela Nacional de Música, on.

Since then trade their songs of life, social causes, the workers, students and them to eliminate social differences. Amparo sang in the university, in bars, in cafes and the best clubs in Mexico. It was the mid-1970s famous and traveled through Latin America, the United States, Europe and the Caribbean. Your message she conveyed through music and became the voice of Mexico.

She has two children, Isaac and Mary Agnes who deal like her mother singing. María Amparo Ochoa died on 8 February 1994 after an accident.

Works

In 1971 they produced their first LP De la mano del viento recorded (From the hand of the wind ) at RCA. After the coup against Salvador Allende in 1974, an LP in solidarity with the people of Chile. Only years later, she visited Chile on the occasion of the end of the military dictatorship, when Patricio Aylwin was elected president of the republic.

Their unique vocal interpretation of the curse of Malinche ( Gabino Palomares) is an excellent example of their way of interpreting historical events. Also well known is her song: Por medio de la lectura ( By reading ).

Works in part

  • De la mano del viento, 1971
  • Cancionero de la Francesa Intervención, 1973
  • Yo pienso que a mi pueblo, 1978
  • Amparo Ochoa canta con los niños, 1983
  • Abril en Managua, 1983
  • Mujer, 1985
  • Zazhil y Amparo Ochoa de Holanda, 1986
  • Vamos Juntos, 1986
  • Amparo Ochoa y algo más de canta trova 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
  • Singer
  • Mexican
  • Born in 1946
  • Died in 1994
  • Woman
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