Venceremos (song)

Venceremos [ bɛnsəre mɔs ː ] (Spanish for " We shall overcome " ) is a political battle song from Chile. The music was composed by Sergio Ortega, the text was written by Claudio Iturra. Víctor Jara wrote an alternative language, the anthem for the election of Salvador Allende's socialist Popular Unity movement was founded in 1970. The song quickly became so popular that it was the unofficial national anthem of Chile was up to the 1973 coup. After the coup in Chile, it could no longer be played for years, but found it fast international expansion and has been in many languages ​​an expression of solidarity with the Chilean people. In the Spanish-speaking world, it has the same meaning as We Shall Overcome in the English-speaking roughly.

Many artists have sung Venceremos, among them Dean Reed, the public again sang the song ten years after the coup, the first in Chile, Inti - Illimani and. Víctor Jara should have smashed against the song shortly before his assassination, his torturers. There are several versions of a text in German language, the most famous of Hans Georg Albigensian. Franz Josef Degenhardt wrote the song in 1974 station Chile, which quotes the chorus of Venceremos.

Die Toten Hosen play with her song titles Venceremos - We will win on the album away game on the Chilean song; these are but a lyrically and musically completely independent song.

An underground station in El Salvador was named Radio Venceremos.