Artist Alí Primera

Release Canciones de protesta

Year 1969

Label Not On Label

Format LP · Album

Country Venezuela

Language Spanish

Songs here 3 in the archive

1969 · Album · Not On Label · Venezuela

Ali Primera, born 31 October 1941 in Coro, Falcón, Venezuela, and died 16 February 1985 in Caracas, Distrito Capital, Venezuela. He was part of the Nueva canción latinoamericana movement which developed in Latin America in the 1960s, which featured Latin and South American folk with leftist political and social messages. This album, produced by the Partido Comunista de Venezuela (Communist Party of Venezuela), was, as stated in the title, songs of protest, several of which are Vietnam War-related. Also in the album were songs in support of Cuba, Venezulian protest, anti-US imperialism in Latin America, and a tribute to murdered union leader Alberto Lovera. for the suggestion.¹²

First the song "Inolvidable Ho Chi Minh" paid tribute to the North Vietnamese leader, in which the narrator said that the people have "huge desire to fight to achieve" the dream of "Uncle Ho Chi Minh...a poet" , who was "tireless" and "brave" .³ This song re-appeared on the 1973 album Lo primero de Ali Primera. Next, the song "Adelante Vietnam" ( "Forward Vietnam" ), which said that "peoples will rise inspired by your example" because of the "injustice of this war" . It described the US as "Yankee colossus, sower of misery" .⁴ Finally, the song "Guerrillero de piel amarilla" ( "Yellow-Skinned Guerrilla" ) displayed solidarity with the "Vietcong Socialist Vietnam" and "Uncle Ho Chi Minh" . It called on the Vietnamese to "make the Yankees bite the dust" . Also note that Ali Primera released the anti-Vietnam song "Mujer Del Vietnam" (1972), discussed below, and featured on the album De Una Vez.

The songs