Quilapayún
Quilapayún ( Mapudungun: Three Beards) is a band founded in 1965 in Chile. The group has since its inception one of the main representatives of Nueva canción Chilena
History
In the summer of 1965, and the brothers Julio Numhauser Carrasco called a folk trio in life. A little later, Patricio Castillo met the group and so made the first line-up perfectly. The four musicians were initially at Chilean universities, but we got thanks to a collaboration with Ángel Parra (son of Violeta Parra ) their first gigs in clubs of Santiago and Valparaíso. Its striking appearance, with black ponchos and beards, Quilapayún participated in during their collaboration with Víctor Jara, with whom she worked the late 60s as artistic director.
Soon after its founding, they worked out their musical line that is characterized by a fusion of Andean folklore with political lyrics. To print this mixture came especially on their third album from 1968, "Por Vietnam " in which they take a clear position against the war policy of the United States, but also against the oppression of Latin America.
With the election of Salvador Allende in 1970 came the Nueva canción Chilena to fruition and gained international attention. Could Quilapayún now also celebrate international successes, extended his trips to Europe and was particularly popular in Argentina and Uruguay. International was Quilapayún, Inti - Illimani with Víctor Jara, for his involvement with the Popular Unity as an ambassador of the new Chile. Especially the song El pueblo unido stands next Venceremos Inti Illimani - as a symbol of the spirit of optimism in the Chile Popular Unity. Special recognition received her appearance, in which they, on a mass demonstration for the Allende government sang the song before a huge crowd a few days before the coup on September 11, here it was to what it should be since the coup - a symbol of desperate resistance against the dictatorship.
When the military coup on September 11, the group was on a European tour in France and had to remain in exile until 1988.
After the end of the dictatorship in Chile, the group split into two factions: one that returned permanently to Chile, and one that remained in France. Similar to Inti Illimani, there are now two groups, who claim for themselves to be the "true" Quilapayún members.