Atahualpa Yupanqui
A Mi Me Gusta Que Suenen
Héctor Roberto Chavera (1908-1992), under his stage name Atahualpa Yupanqui, is the most important Argentine folk singer-songwriter. His father was a mestizo of Quechua and Basque descent who worked for the railway company. The family moved to Tucumán, in northwestern Argentina, when he was nine years old. There, Héctor adopted the stage name Atahualpa Yupanqui in homage to two legendary Inca kings. His Quechua nickname can also be read as "he who came from afar to tell stories." In his youth, he traveled through the northwest of the country studying indigenous cultures. He would dedicate himself to politics by joining the Argentine Communist Party and in 1931 he participated in the failed uprising of the Kennedy Brothers against the coup d'état of José Félix Uriburu. After the uprising was defeated, he had to take refuge in Uruguay until 1934. This compilation brings together some of the best songs from his extensive discography in their original recordings. Many of them have been covered internationally by artists such as Daniel Viglietti, Mercedes Sosa, Facundo Cabral, Victor Jara, Los Albas, Marie Lafôret and Joan Manuel Serrat, among others.