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(Spotify) Victor Jara was WikiPedia posted:a Chilean teacher, theater director, poet, singer-songwriter and communist political activist tortured and killed during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. He developed Chilean theater by directing a broad array of works, ranging from locally produced plays to world classics, as well as the experimental work of playwrights such as Ann Jellicoe. He also played a pivotal role among neo-folkloric musicians who established the Nueva Canción Chilena (New Chilean Song) movement. This led to an uprising of new sounds in popular music during the administration of President Salvador Allende. James Dean Bradfield, better known as the lead singer/guitarist of the Manic Street Preachers, had been aware of Jara's story from an early age, through music of U2, Bruce Springsteen and various others, and upon learning of a collection of poems written by Welsh poet and playwright Patrick Jones (brother of Manics lyricist/bass player Nicky Wire) about Jara, was eager to put them to music. This is Bradfield's second solo album separate of his work with the Manics, the first being The Great Western in 2006 (Spotify) "Even in Exile" is a concept album about the life of Victor Jara, a significant person in the history of Chile, of dictatorship and activism, among many Chileans brutally tortured and murdered by the US-backed Pinochet coup of Chile. Singles: "The Boy From The Plantation" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J22peh7IQOk "There'll Come A War" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgzLQF9Hkd8 "Without Knowing The End (Joan's Song)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo2VQKbJNEs
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More on Victor Jara. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nybX2_mYqg
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